Sorry if this post is long/in the wrong place, this is my first post here. I’m not sure if CBE is solely a Texas thing, but basically the summer before my 9th grade year, I took a test provided by my school district to get a Spanish credit before high school. I had taken Spanish I already at my old middle school, but I moved in 8th grade and the credit didn’t transfer over. I didn’t want to retake Spanish I in high school since I didn’t retake the class in 8th grade, so I took the CBE before HS to hopefully get back the credit. Everyone takes the same test, and then graders will give you the approximate grade you would have gotten in each class (Span I-IV). If your grade is above a certain threshold, you get the class credit, so it’s not pass/fail. I ended up getting a 98 in Span I and a 90 in Span II, so I started HS in Spanish III. However, the 90 I was given for Span II is on my HS transcript as if I’d taken the class. I currently have a 4.0 GPA at my school, but if colleges include the CBE grades to recalculate it using my transcript, the 90 will lower it.
I know it’s not that big of a deal and seems kind of nitpicky that I’d care about this small of a change to my GPA, but I worked really hard to upkeep it, and now a class I didn’t technically take may mess it up. Will colleges use a CBE for my GPA, or is there a way to remove it from my transcript? If not, it doesn’t really matter, but it’ll still kind of suck
Every college is different but I think you are being nitpicky.
If your transcript shows a 4.0, go with it.
What you are describing will not impact admission anywhere.
They are (mist schools) looking at grades 9-11.
For Texas public universities, what matters is whether the inclusion of that grade is done by your high school for the purpose of calculating GPA for class ranking purposes, since class rank is the most important admission factor in Texas public universities’ frosh admission.
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