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Is it true that your UC GPA is only based on 10th/11th grades and only counts up to 8 honors/APs? Or is part of that information incorrect...and does this apply to all the UCs are just some of them?

By Wizzz (Wizzz) on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 07:07 pm: Edit

the first part is true for all UC schools. I'm not sure about the 8 honors/AP thing though, I am not aware that any limit exists.

By Kluge (Kluge) on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 07:17 pm: Edit

This is what it says on the UC website:

Honors Courses
The University assigns extra points for up to four units of University-certified honors level and advanced placement courses taken in the last three years of high school: A=5 points, B=4 points, C=3 points. No more than two years of UC-approved honors level courses taken in the 10th grade may be given extra points. A grade of D in an honors or advanced placement course does not earn extra points.

(4 "units" = 8 semesters, so that's where the "8 honors" part comes from. It's actually 8 semesters of AP, with a maximum of 4 semesters in the 10th grade.)