Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

lkf725
Mon, 04 May 2009 13:15:00 +0000

As long as high schools and colleges play this extreme gpa game, it would certainly be better to take things like phys ed and fine arts on your own, outside of the school system.

It makes me sort of sad, though, that some kids begin figuring out where they stand in freshman year, know everybody’s gpa’s who are remotely close to them, and choose their courses based on what their rivals take. Many even opt out of lunch to get that extra AP “A” to get a little edge on others. But I guess if you want to be in the very comfortable admission and scholarship zone, you have to do it.

And you can only tell if it was worth it in hindsight.