Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

_theorymom
Wed, 06 May 2009 16:24:10 +0000

we were completely naive and encouraged electives dependent on S’s interests. One of those was a fairly fluff course that he ended up not doing well in - it was not what he thought it would be (more art less coding) and it got his GPA in huge trouble so we regret not understanding the role it would play and would have had him drop it immediately upon learning it was not what he thought or what he liked, however we do not regret his involvment in his other elective courses - many of which were choir classes and advanced math and science. At his school he got screwed class rank wise. Many kids there take the absolute minimum effort classes, do not plan on attending anything but CC, and end up as high ranking members of their class, while those who toil in difficult subjects and therefore may not recieve the perfect scores are penalized. Still, I would continue to advise my son to be open to difficult things and to take them on.