Does anyone know if Fordham considers electives into GPA?

mrodriguez
Fri, 16 May 2014 02:53:59 +0000

My UW GPA is 3.85 without counting these four electives I was forced to take during freshman year at this South American HS in my native country. They weren’t really electives for said school, but they are considered electives by my current school and they appear as electives on my transcript. Two of them are actually language courses (though not foreign to me, but native. I got a C and a D), the other one is called Ethics and the other one is called Work and Technology and I got a C for both of them. They literally ruin my GPA and I am left with a 3.35, or 3.38 tops (I predict 3.47 by the end of the first semester of freshman year). I had terrible teachers for these courses which is the reason I obtained such low grades. I was just wondering if Fordham like many other schools takes into consideration only core courses, or if they take into consideration ALL courses.
The GPA they publish as their average of accepted freshmen, is it counting only core courses or also electives?
Thank you!