If you are getting all As on core classes but you have B- on Fine Arts class (or Electives), how the college look at your GPA?
Does the GPA include ALL the classes and grades? Are there schools where they look at Core classes and don’t worry about other subjects like Arts or Electives? I have one bad grade on an Art class which I took online…and it really ruins my Transcript. Is there any way to remove that record from the Transcript? If I take extra Fine Art class and get more credits than required, can the high school replace the bad one with a better one?
They recalculate GPA by removing PE, Health… Fine Arts or electives count.
This being said, A’s in all your core classes and a B- in Fine Arts won’t hurt as much, even if it does decrease your college GPA.
Finally, a B- is not the end of the world. You may want to take another art class to show this B- doesn’t reflect your work ethics and was a fluke.
@MYOS1634, thank you so much for your reply! I understand about GPA, but how about Class Rank? Class Rank is based only on college GPA (includes all the subjects)? I am really feeling bad that I took that Art class through online:(
Class rank is defined by your HS. What do they say they use?
@Erin’s Dad, ok I went to the high school website and found the information as below.
GPA/Class Rank: The GPA is un-weighted and is based upon all credit courses. Class Rank is based upon the highest GPA being number 1 in the class. Several students may share the same numerical rank.
So Class Rank depends on GPA which includes all the subjects:(((
Another question: When you apply to colleges, do you get to explain why the grade was low on a certain class? I know it wouldn’t look good … it will look like making excuses. Do you know anything about these kind of things? Thank you.
There is usually an additional information section on the application. However, using that section to explain a grade is never a good idea; despite your best efforts, it will come across as whiny. If there were something that legitimately needed to be further explained (and I’d posit that a B- is not that something), it’s better to have the GC talk about it on the Secondary School Report.
@skieurope, Thank you for your reply. I understand very well. Thank you!
That Art 2 teacher from online school had problems in receiving my art work by attachment. I was asking if she received them but I didn’t get any reply back… Later my parent wanted to check with that teacher, there was no email address of hers showing on the school list - only hers wasn’t there, all the other teachers’ email addresses were showing. Still I haven’t calmed down about getting B- from that class:(
That’s a separate issue and if there were issues in transmission of work that resulted in the B-, I’d challenge the grade.
@skieurope, yes. I am going to contact the online school tomorrow and try to talk to the district contact person if I could speak/contact with that teacher. At least, I will try that. Thank you.
The most selective colleges onlt care if you’re top 10% so don’t worry about it. 
Also, DO NOT mention that B-. It will NOT matter to the adcoms reading your application. They really won’t care.
@MYOS1634, Thank you! I feel better. Top 10% means Class Rank, yes? My high school gives us Class Rank based on GPA which includes all the subjects, no matter you had regular, Honor, or AP classes. Do the colleges know the difference of being top 3% Class Rank with all regular classes and being top %15 Class Rank with Honors and 6 AP classes? Just wondering. Thank you!
Colleges have been at this for quite a while (longer than you’ve been around) and know how to read a school profile and how to interpret class rank. You need to get over this angst.
@Erin’s Dad, OK! Thank you so much!! I don’t know how it works on so many things!