Yearbook Chief Editor or Calculus BC?

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<p>There’s a conflict with my schedule next year (my senior year) in which the periods for Yearbook and Calculus BC overlap (are the same)… Should I take Calculus BC online over the summer and gain a 5.0, or should I be Chief Editor of Yearbook (an unweighted class) and accept the drop in my GPA from a 5.0 to a 4.8? Please help!</p>

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<p>Why can’t you take BC online over the summer and Yearbook during the year? You get the best of both worlds.</p>

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<p>No college is going to look at your GPA if you take the yearbook position and sniff “Only a 4.8! What a loser! Reject!” Colleges understand that sometimes there are conflicts and you need to make a choice. Chief Editor of the yearbook is a unique position that you should take - great leadership cred, the question then is how to also take calc. What calculus alternatives do you have? AB? Non-AP? Getting both in, hopefully without having to use the summer, should be your goal. Only if there’s no way to do that should you start looking for alternatives.</p>

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<p>Take it over the summer and yearbook editor, is that not an option?</p>

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<p>What is your unweighted GPA? That will dictate whether or not you should take Calc or Yearbook. Why would your GPA by .2 drop if you did yearbook anyway? That seems like a big drop. Maybe you should have a chat with your GC</p>

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<p>That is the problem with weighted GPA systems - take a non-honors/AP class and your GPA drops despite getting all As.</p>

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<p>Can you take the online course over the summer and be a yearbook editor? That way you get the best of both worlds. It seems to me that your GC can explain the difference that you decided to take it online rather than in school because you had that scheduling conflict.</p>

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<p>What @MrMom62‌ said, everyone… If you take a non-honors/AP class, your GPA drops. It’s just the weighted scale system… My unweighted GPA is a 3.98 @AnnieBeats‌ and if I take BC over the summer online, my GPA would drop.</p>

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<p>Talk to your guidance counselor if he/she is good. I’d probably go with the editor position. Leadership positions like that are a big EC. Assuming you are a rising senior, your year end GPA won’t really matter - you will have already been accepted to college by the time it comes out. </p>