<p>I just changed high schools and at my new high school they count volunteer work as a .5 credit standard class. I have over 600hrs. so I can have 8 A’s added to my transcript but its a standard class and won’t do anything to my weighted GPA excpet for lower it about .01. It will raise my GPA .18 roughly.</p>
<p>Should I tell my counselor I want to count it for credit?
My dilemma is that since its a standard class credit it will make my transcript less impresive.</p>
<p>i would say count it…if it’s like an extra class, i don’t think it will make your transcript less impressive unless it bumps off something.</p>
<p>also, would having 10.5 credits more than required by the time I graduate make me seem impressive. I took a lot of extra college classes on top of what was required and the 4 credits from volunteering.</p>
<p>that’s nice…but i don’t know about impressive…lots of students have way more credits than necessary. i’d say that it would make you average. you have no advantage yet are not at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>I don’t think it would really help you by having a higher unweighted GPA because colleges have their own GPA system anyway. Also, I don’t know if having a lot of credits is impressive; it’s about how many and how challenging classes you’ve had. As for showing how much community service/ volunteer you’ve done, you can put that information somewhere else, not on a transcript. Put it in your resume or something.</p>
<p>Edit: by colleges, I meant college admissions committees</p>
<p>I should have 8 college classes, 7 AP, and 12 honors classes by the time I graduate. Would it not look as good because I had 6 AP classes my senior year and only 1 before that, I can only show 1 AP score.</p>
<p>I only have 1 AP score and 2 IB scores because that’s all the school offers for 10th and 11th graders. I don’t really know if not having a lot of AP scores would hurt your chances, but I think it would be unfair if they counted this against me, since I couldn’t do much about it. (I’m ignoring the fact that I could have done independent study for extra APs junior year.)</p>