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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UCs also will only weight 2 classes per year out of 10th & 11th grade for the assessment of GPA[/quote]

Since the only count grades from 10th and 11th, weighting 4 classes counts.  
If you take 6 classes per year (classes like drivers Ed/pe/athletics don’t count) and weight 2 then an all student has a GPA of 4.33 while an OOS student who has no AP’s will have a GPA of 4.0. Of a student takes 5 classes per year (not including a or class) then the straight A student has a gpa of 4.4 while the non weighted one has 4.0.

And what is not well known or publicized is ucla and Berkeley actually look at uncapped weighted gpa as well. So a 11th grader with all AP or IB or dual enrollment courses could have an uncapped weighted gpa of 5.0. Compare that to a private school student whose school dropped AP’s. That student has an uncapped gpa of 4.0. [/quote]

No they limit to 2 per year. There is no such thing as "uncapped" weighted for the UCs. Elsewhere, sure, but not there. [/quote]

Uncapped weighted is 100% real. You really are uninformed. Just read college confidential for 2 minutes on a UC string and you will hear all about uncapped weighted Gpa.[/quote]

I've read the UC site, I think I'm actually much better informed than you, who is gathering "data" from talk boards [/quote]

You go with that.  But for other people, they may want to know that several of the UCs (including Cal and UCLA) look at three types gpas even though they mostly report on the capped.  All of it is based on summer after 9th through summer after 11th grades and identified courses (a-g).  UW, weighted capped and weighted uncapped.  It may be useful to know this going in.  AP test scores are also valuable.  And they look at rigor.

I have reviewed the UC data site extensively, attend two UCs (undergrad and grad degrees) and also peruse college confidential.[/quote]

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