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<p>It’s different. And if your school administration does not see that it’s different, they have no business working in education.</p>
<p>Where I live, parents have sued school districts for less than this.
Call the local news and make a stink. you should NOT sit down for this.</p>
<p>@soze the only thing is that I don’t think my classmates would support this. Most of the boys make the time, and the girls that do not seem to care when I bring it up. :/</p>
<p>As Part of the grade I agree with it but I
Feel it should be excluded from gpa calculations.</p>
<p>Who cares if your classmates agree with it or not?
Get your local media all over this. They <em>love</em> stories of kids being treated unfairly.
I can see the headline: “Local Scholar Penalized Due to Lack of Athletic Ability.”</p>
<p>Or maybe: “School District Counts Gym the Same as English and Math.”</p>
<p>The issue is that some colleges will recalculate your GPA to exclude Gym, but many will not bother. You should <em>not</em> be penalized for this. </p>
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<p>I’d say most will do this (exclude all grades in all subjects except English, Social, Science, Math and Foreign Language), and they will recalculate your GPA and weight it to their own formula as well. So your As rather than A-s may likely be worth more to them.</p>
<p>D’s HS had a time requirement for the mile too, I think it was 8 minutes. </p>
<p>There was a thread here a short time ago where an applicant called the Cornell admissions office and asked them if they recalculated GPAs or just took what was on the transcript. The admissions officer was very honest that they don’t have the time to re-do the GPAs of the thousands of applications they receive.</p>
<p>My kids went to two different high schools (one private, one public) and in both cases:
<p>What do they do with the disabled kids?
I’m assuming they have different standards for boys and girls, isn’t this gender bias? (clearly the math department can’t have different standards for each gender).</p>
<p>This actually speaks to a point I made on another thread that HS GPA is in many cases a pretty bad measure for college admissions as much of what you are graded on in HS doesn’t apply in college. The examples I used were making posters and notebook checks but this clearly falls in this category as well.</p>
<p>@soze So from my readings and this thread, I have concluded that colleges are going to look at my grades, not GPA? If so, I’m feeling pretty good about this.</p>
<p>Some will, some will not (like I said there is at least one example (Cornell) which is going to look at the GPA on the transcript. Where there is one, there will be others).</p>
<p>I think the bigger issue (beyond just your small GPA difference) is how grossly unfair and anti-intellectual this “grading” system that your school has is.</p>
<p>I definitely agree that it’s ridiculous and will be fighting against it by emailing the dean.</p>
<p>Curious about why you ruled out UC Santa Cruz but not UC Riverside. Santa Cruz is a reasonable good UC.</p>
<p>@ynotgo I don’t like the location of sc. Riverside isn’t too great, either, but I prefer Southern California. Plus, I’m going to do the guaranteed admission program.</p>