Valhalla Counseling - A-G Requirements

UC/CSU "A-G" Requirements

Students planning to attend a 4-year public California university must complete the UC/CSU "a-g" requirements.
Students must pass all requirements with a C or better.
Boxes with an "R" indicate a recommendation, but not a requirement.
College admission GPA for UC and CSU schools are based on a student's 10th and 11th grade "a-g" GPA.
CLICK HERE to view Valhalla's "a-g" course list. California universities will consider how many a-g courses a student took as a factor for admission.

Students who meet the "a-g" requirements will receive a medallion at graduation. In addition, if students meet "a-g" AND achieve a weighted cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher, they will be considered an honor grad and earn a gold cord for graduation.

Please keep the following in mind:

If you earn a D/F in a required subject, you must repeat it or recover the course in Credit Recovery.
The only way to repair the GPA impact of a D or F is to repeat the EXACT same course. That means any courses repeated in a credit recovery class will NOT replace the GPA points of an AP or Honors course, but it WILL satisfy the a-g requirement.
UC and CSU schools base your admissions GPA on your 10th and 11th grade a-g GPA. In addition, they will only count up to 8 semesters of weighted honors/AP credit towards your GPA calculation.
While there are a number of classes that we designate as Honors at Valhalla, not all will receive the Honors GPA bump for UC/CSU admission. Please check the Valhalla course list to confirm which classes earn a-g honors credit. They are denoted with an orange star. If courses do not have a star, they will not count for honors credit in your UC/CSU GPA, but they will be weighted as a part of your comprehensive Valhalla GPA.
There are certain classes that will validate missing or deficient lower requirements in the areas of math and foreign language. The rules vary between UC and CSU, so if you have questions, please ask your counselor.

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