<p>I came from Cuba to the United States in the 8th grade. I am currently a junior & taking junior-level classes such as chemistry honors and algebra 2 honors. All of my friends are currently taking AP Calculus or AP Statistics because in the 7th and 8th grade they took advanced math and science classes. I have a 4.889 weighted gpa compared to all my friends who have a 5.0. Is that an acceptable gpa; considering that they are able to (and many of them do) have a schedule that is full of ap classes? I am trying to make up for that by taking some ap classes online.</p>
<p>What’s your unweighted GPA? Not all schools even weight GPA at all, so colleges don’t consider your weighted GPA in admissions. AP courses are relevant not because of how they affect your weighted GPA, but because colleges want you to have taken challenging courses.
If you took the most advanced classes possible in your situation, you’ll probably be competitive…you should explain everything in your college applications.</p>
<p>My unweighted gpa is a 3.8 & they have still more opportunities, they are able to finish high school with like 6 maths and sciences and i will only be able to finish with 4</p>
<p>You can’t take two math classes and/or two science classes in one year?</p>
<p>I can’t take 2 math classes because I need algebra 2 for them (I just started algebra 2) and its not allowed to take 2 silences in one year</p>
<p>If you’re really concerned about this, it might be possible to test out of classes.
But if you’ve really done everything you could have done, colleges can’t penalize you for not doing more.</p>
<p>Test put of classes? What is that?</p>
<p>You take a test covering a particular subject and are given credit for it if you pass. I did this to skip precal and enter into AP calculus (my school requires precal as a prerequisite)</p>
<p>At my school the grade you get on the test is the grade they put on your report card…so if you test out of stuff you should try to do more than just pass.</p>
<p>I was thinking about taking precalc online in the summer</p>
<p>Hello there is nice to see some people from Cuba here,
I am also a Cuban student who came from Cuba in 2009, right before starting 9th grade during summer vacation (I had less than a month), I can tell you that your gpa its amazing, I finished High school with a 4.3 W Gpa and 3.9UW because I had to take ESL classes. Well I can tell you that if you work hard you can do whatever you want. I am a freshman in at Duke University</p>