<p>I have a question about GPA’s. I’m a student from California and I have taken 4 semester/20 credits of classes outside of school (2 semesters/10 credits of Chinese Lvl 4 and 2 semesters/10 credits Graphic Design II) at a community college and got A’s for all the semesters. These classes were preapproved by my high school for high school credit for Foreign Language and Visual/Performing Arts, respectively, and are on my high school transcript. And they are apparently academic classes because they are factored into my school’s academic GPA. </p>
<p>Would these classes count on my GPA for UC’s or private schools? Because if they do, they would lower my weighted GPA because they aren’t weighted classes. </p>
<p>If so, wouldn’t a student that took 7 AP classes at my school (the max number of classes possible a semester) and got A’s in all of them have a higher weighted GPA than a person that took let’s say Graphic Design I (after school) in addition to the same 7 AP classes and got A’s in all of them. So basically the latter person is being punished for taking an extra class and getting an A in it? I don’t see how this makes sense.</p>