Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

missypie
Tue, 05 May 2009 11:25:35 +0000

It always makes me sad that by jr or sr year, all the top kids in the class have dropped their sport…but it’s a double blocked, unweighted class, so if you stay in all 4 years, your sport makes up 25% of your classes. I hate to see it, but maybe I’d have made the same decision if I was in their spot (as it was I didn’t take Drawing although I wanted to because I knew I couldn’t get an A.)

Some of you may remember the big flap last year when a 3 year grad in our district was not allowed to be the official Val - rules dictated it had to be a 4 year grad. They showed brief shots of her close-to-perfect transcript on TV and I could see that she had been allowed to take a whole lot of AP classes as a 9th and 10th grader when other 9th and 10th graders are only allowed to take one a year.