dilemmmmaaaaa GPA for non-academic classes?

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<p>Hi guys</p>

<p>I’m just wondering if universities calculate their own gpa ? or do they just use the one our high school provides?
my school is in canada and it uses 100% scale, also the courses are different too =(</p>

<p>my lowest marks are gym and accounting…are they academic? </p>

<p>do universities look at them?</p>

<p>also my accounting mark is kind of low so im thinking abt dropping it now</p>

<p>I have until this friday to drop it without it being included in my transcript</p>

<p>i have a 94 average (with this course), if i drop it i can probably go higher</p>

<p>should i drop it to increase gpa? or does that indicate lack of dedication?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>bump 1r14 3`</p>

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<p>Some colleges will reweight, others will take your GPA from HS.</p>

<p>Gym wouldn’t be an academic class, but I think Accounting probably is as it could be classified under as a Social Studies, at least that’s what my school did.</p>

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<p>thx cvjn</p>

<p>in my school its classified under business studies?
so wut exactly do they do to it?</p>

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<p>You’d have to ask your specific admissions department. Why does it matter? What are you getting in that class?</p>

<p>A 94/100 GPA is still pretty high, I’m not understanding why you’re worrying about this.</p>

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<p>hmm im getting 90 in that class
but it might drop =(
my school offers no AP, so my classes are just the standar
thanx cvjn</p>

<p>all ppl on this board have 4.0…</p>

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<p>most of the people here have 4.0s, true, but if you look at the range of say Cal, not all of them are 4.0’s either.</p>

<p>While a high GPA is important, if you have a 4.0 and really nothing else to back you up, you’d be considered a weak applicant</p>

<p>If you have a 3.8~ but have a lot of EC’s, interesting quarks about you, I’d consider you a stronger applicant than the 4.0</p>

<p>Everyone here tends to be very big on numbers and playing that game, college admissions tends to be more random than what you can calculate alone based on numbers.</p>

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<p>ya</p>

<p>that is true</p>

<p>especially for students who want to go into business?</p>

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<p>For anything. We recently at my school had this girl who applied to 16 different schools, no safeties, and had held a 3.93? GPA, AP classes galore, a high 20x0 SAT but did nothing else</p>

<p>Got rejected for all of them so far. Sure, she applied to like Ivy’s, I think some schools overseas, ect ect, but it goes to show that numbers don’t mean everything.</p>

<p>Yeah yeah, you can argue specific cases and stuff, and she got unlucky</p>