Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

FindAPlace
Mon, 04 May 2009 13:34:19 +0000

Thankfully, we never even hinted to our S that Val/Sal and all the game playing was anything he needed to concern himself about. So he sits at class rank #3 (our HS does it be weighted academic class GPA) and will be close to if not at this to close out his junior year.

Does he care he’s 3? Not much. He knows the two guys ahead of him, since they all went together at the same language immersion elementary school. (I find it somewhat surprising at this point that so many of the top ten students at his school are boys.)

He decided after sophomore year, upon recommendation of his AP Calc BC teacher, to attempt an on line linear algebra class and forgo the less rigorous AP Stats class. He’s pulling an A. It’s a crying shame that he will NOT get weighted credit for this, since it’s clearly his most challenging class ever. He’s not crying over it, since he knew I ran the gauntlet, checking to see if this was a policy that could be altered.

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.