Weighted/Fully Weighted/Uncapped: sometimes also called weighted uncapped or fully weighted is the GPA in A to G subject courses between 9th and 11th grade tallied with the extra point awarded for completing a UC-level honors course. Source: blog.collegevine.com/how-to-calculate-uc-gpa#:~:text=Weighted%3A%20sometimes%20also%20called%20weighted,a%20UC%2Dlevel%20honors%20course.
Good question! I'd have to do more research on this, but now I'd refer you to Mrs. Sun's response, which is copyrighted, which I hope this doesn't cause any trouble for me to post X): Capped GPA You may hear about the 8-semester capped GPA and wonder why you should bother taking more than 4 Honors/AP courses. The capped GPA is used to determine UC eligibility only. Part of the UC eligibility dictates that the minimum GPA you must have is 3.0 capped (up to 8 semesters of Honors/AP) for California residents and 3.4 for non-residents. For application evaluation, the UC campuses look at the weighted and unweighted GPA (competitive UCs like Berkeley and UCLA look at FULLY weighted and unweighted GPA). This content is copyrighted and retrieved from askmssun.com/uc-freshman-admission-academic-preparation/
@@CounselorJay are UCLA and UC Berkeley the only ones that use the uncapped weighted gpa? if I have many many community college courses, would this put me closer to a 5.0?
@@luckygamer9197 I think that all UCs would have access to the uncapped weighted GPA, and so campuses that are growingly more competitive, like UCSD/UCI/UCSB, would use it, especially for impacted majors. It depends on how many units each of your CC courses are to count as an equivalent high school AP course, but yes taking many 4+ unit quarter classes would boost your uncapped weighted GPA.
@@CounselorJay Hi, I have a question. some schools like mine don't offer APs in freshman year or even barely one (AP HUG for us). It's mathematically impossible to get a 4.5-5.0 weighted (9-11) at our school unless you're a sweat and have someone going up in your ear to tell you to do dual enrollment in your freshman and sopohmore years. The reason why we can't get a 4.5 or higher if it was uncapped is because most sopohmores only take 1 ap since they had zero experience in an AP setting (while I took 3). For example my gpa freshman year was 4.167 and my sophmore year was 4.5 and junior year is 4.83. I still have an uncapped gpa of 4.499 when I took essentially the maximum of AP classes at our school. So if we do uncap the GPA's, will it hurt our chances at these top schools?
@@ryanndinh1269 Sup Ryan! So colleges are going to be understanding of this and scale their expectations accordingly. That's why in many cases, I find parents/students spending time calculating out their GPA to be a fruitless endeavor, comparing 4.3 vs 4.4 etc. Instead, understand that colleges are going to have a School Profile that shows a history of the top GPA's achievable at any given school, and adjust to a percentile ranking accordingly. Hence, if the highest GPA over the last 3 years were 4.4 and you had a 4.4, you'll be considered to have taken the highest comparative rigor and grade results, and essentially be given a nod on this metric as they move on to other metrics. They will NOT be comparing your 4.4 to the 4.8 that's achievable at the private school across town. In sum, compare yourself to your own high school's history of top achievers and go off of percentile instead of actual GPA #'s. Are you in the Top 1%, 3%, 10%, etc? That's mainly how you should be evaluating yourself. You can check my Tier Explanations tab in my Counselor Jay's College Tier List to see how I apply this concept to the college rankings.
Currently applying to all the UC schools, my priority majors are in pharmaceutical and psychology, are those very competitive compare to nursing and bio majors? What majors do you recommended for applicants that want to go in the medical field?
Nursing is super competitive, so I generally avoid it unless BSN is the goal. If the end-game is Medical School, I'd focus on less competitive majors to prioritize getting admitted first. There is no major-specific requirements for Med School; just need to take the prerequisites. So, as long as you're choosing a major that synergizes enough with the prerequisite courses you'll take, you can then start leveraging the differences in major admit rates to take a less competitive path to acceptance. Check out my video: The Most Popular or Competitive UC Majors and GPA Requirements (Bonus Salary Data). There I provide transfer major admit data (unfortunately, I still haven't got my hands on freshman admit data, but in my experience, transfer data can still be helpful to understand the major choice admit rate differences).
Thank you for the good information!👍🏻
has UCLA posted any similar data?
Is this GPA only counting courses from summer after 9th to summer before 12th?
are these 10-12 uncapped weighted gpa? or are the percentages your typical 9-12 weighted gpa?
Weighted/Fully Weighted/Uncapped: sometimes also called weighted uncapped or fully weighted is the GPA in A to G subject courses between 9th and 11th grade tallied with the extra point awarded for completing a UC-level honors course.
Source: blog.collegevine.com/how-to-calculate-uc-gpa#:~:text=Weighted%3A%20sometimes%20also%20called%20weighted,a%20UC%2Dlevel%20honors%20course.
Do you think the weighted GPA is based on what's shown in the transcript? or calculated for A-G classes?
Good question! I'd have to do more research on this, but now I'd refer you to Mrs. Sun's response, which is copyrighted, which I hope this doesn't cause any trouble for me to post X):
Capped GPA You may hear about the 8-semester capped GPA and wonder why you should bother taking more than 4 Honors/AP courses. The capped GPA is used to determine UC eligibility only. Part of the UC eligibility dictates that the minimum GPA you must have is 3.0 capped (up to 8 semesters of Honors/AP) for California residents and 3.4 for non-residents. For application evaluation, the UC campuses look at the weighted and unweighted GPA (competitive UCs like Berkeley and UCLA look at FULLY weighted and unweighted GPA).
This content is copyrighted and retrieved from askmssun.com/uc-freshman-admission-academic-preparation/
@@CounselorJay are UCLA and UC Berkeley the only ones that use the uncapped weighted gpa? if I have many many community college courses, would this put me closer to a 5.0?
@@luckygamer9197 I think that all UCs would have access to the uncapped weighted GPA, and so campuses that are growingly more competitive, like UCSD/UCI/UCSB, would use it, especially for impacted majors. It depends on how many units each of your CC courses are to count as an equivalent high school AP course, but yes taking many 4+ unit quarter classes would boost your uncapped weighted GPA.
@@CounselorJay Hi, I have a question. some schools like mine don't offer APs in freshman year or even barely one (AP HUG for us). It's mathematically impossible to get a 4.5-5.0 weighted (9-11) at our school unless you're a sweat and have someone going up in your ear to tell you to do dual enrollment in your freshman and sopohmore years. The reason why we can't get a 4.5 or higher if it was uncapped is because most sopohmores only take 1 ap since they had zero experience in an AP setting (while I took 3). For example my gpa freshman year was 4.167 and my sophmore year was 4.5 and junior year is 4.83. I still have an uncapped gpa of 4.499 when I took essentially the maximum of AP classes at our school. So if we do uncap the GPA's, will it hurt our chances at these top schools?
@@ryanndinh1269 Sup Ryan!
So colleges are going to be understanding of this and scale their expectations accordingly. That's why in many cases, I find parents/students spending time calculating out their GPA to be a fruitless endeavor, comparing 4.3 vs 4.4 etc. Instead, understand that colleges are going to have a School Profile that shows a history of the top GPA's achievable at any given school, and adjust to a percentile ranking accordingly. Hence, if the highest GPA over the last 3 years were 4.4 and you had a 4.4, you'll be considered to have taken the highest comparative rigor and grade results, and essentially be given a nod on this metric as they move on to other metrics. They will NOT be comparing your 4.4 to the 4.8 that's achievable at the private school across town.
In sum, compare yourself to your own high school's history of top achievers and go off of percentile instead of actual GPA #'s. Are you in the Top 1%, 3%, 10%, etc? That's mainly how you should be evaluating yourself. You can check my Tier Explanations tab in my Counselor Jay's College Tier List to see how I apply this concept to the college rankings.
Does this mean that a HS student needs to take 12 AP classes in their last three years of HS?
Yes
Currently applying to all the UC schools, my priority majors are in pharmaceutical and psychology, are those very competitive compare to nursing and bio majors? What majors do you recommended for applicants that want to go in the medical field?
Nursing is super competitive, so I generally avoid it unless BSN is the goal. If the end-game is Medical School, I'd focus on less competitive majors to prioritize getting admitted first. There is no major-specific requirements for Med School; just need to take the prerequisites. So, as long as you're choosing a major that synergizes enough with the prerequisite courses you'll take, you can then start leveraging the differences in major admit rates to take a less competitive path to acceptance. Check out my video: The Most Popular or Competitive UC Majors and GPA Requirements (Bonus Salary Data). There I provide transfer major admit data (unfortunately, I still haven't got my hands on freshman admit data, but in my experience, transfer data can still be helpful to understand the major choice admit rate differences).