Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

PlantMom
Mon, 04 May 2009 14:03:04 +0000

“Next year, he’ll face the same thing when he take multivariable calculus. Yet, he will be taking the class. We have a sneaking feeling that choosing to take college level classes will stand out on his transcript as a very positive thing that ad comms will notice”

I think you are absolutely right about this, FindAPlace. Our son had a combination of CC college credit/AP courses/honors/and plain old regular high school classes on his high school transcript. I think his CC courses in computer progamming at a post AP level were very helpful in his colleges apps, not to mention that he really wanted to study the more advanced topics. He did receive weighted credit on his transcript because this is policy in our state, but we are also homeschoolers, and I would have had no trouble weighting his GPA if it wasn’t state policy. It’s mind boggling that your high school won’t weight a multivariable calc class!