Strategy when grades are lower relative to test scores

Schadret
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:36:56 +0000

mathmom:

I think my son got some forgiveness because his lowest grades were all in Latin. It also happened in our school that Latin had fewer honors courses (because not enough people took it to make an honors section), so they got slightly dinged on the weighted GPA.

My son will be similar, so interested in following up on this when the time comes. His downfall was Spanish. Even though they’re supposed to do a language for 3 years (he’s a junior now), they just added a Linguistics course which they let you take instead, and he loves it (and is doing great).

If he stays where he is now, he’ll end up with probably a 3.55ish (unweighted, they don’t weight and all courses are considered honors, so we’ll have to calc a weighted one if necessary). If the 2 practice ACT’s are a decent indication, he’ll probably get a 34 or 35… which doesn’t usually go along with a 3.5.