So you have decided that you want to attend the best public research university in the world. The most important factor determining your chances at UC Berkeley is your recalculated UC GPA. UC Berkeley re-calculates your GPA for admissions purposes by: (1) factoring in only sophomore and junior year grades (no freshman grades), (2) using academic courses only (no physical education or typing courses or band/orchestra) (3) weighting the difficulty of academic courses taken such as AP courses. The average admitted GPA for the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley is 4.2. For the College of Engineering, not including Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EE/CS), the average admitted GPA is over 4.3.