<p>My counselor showed me a copy of the preliminary grade 12 school report he was sending, and it had all my courses on it, including band and religion, which I'm sure no college would take into their GPA calculation. I just wanted to know if it'd matter.</p>
<p>they will knock them off when they do their calculations, you dont have to worry about it</p>
<p>they may however take notice if you are failing band</p>
<p>Depends on college. Some recalculate GPA relying only on college prep courses -- lab science, math, English, social studies, and language -- asnd eliminate everything else, including band, religion, health, art, vocational studies, science without lab, PE and anything else. Some consider college prep courses but also some others like art, or some other electives. Some, like a lot of state schools just accept whatever overall GPA is provided and then evaluated it as to others in relation to courses counted by other high schools. Some really don't care much about GPA and instead rely on class rank. Moreover, some, particularly religious oriented colleges, will consider those religion grades.</p>
<p>Why don't they count electives in (ex. architectural drawing...)? Its something I was interested in..took it..and excelled in it. So basically what was the point of taking electives? err...this is stupid</p>
<p>What about computer science courses, I have taken some at a university. Honostly I think this is more important because Im going into engineering than foriegn language. I had to take spanish and hated, i did much better and was more interested in the computer science classes</p>
<p>A number consider computer science as akin to either a lab science or a math course. However, you also have a different consideration -- high ranked colleges will consider any course of substance you actually took for grade at a college as a plus (as long as grade is good) regarless of whether they count it toward GPA.</p>