<p>I was wondering how much the difficulty of your high school classes matters when being admitted to college. Say you take an honors math get a C when you could have taken the normal math got an A and had a higher GPA.</p>
<p>I'm by no means an expert and have made plenty of mistakes with my first born, but lots of schools do consider unweighted GPAs. One school we are considering looks at weighted GPAs for admission but unweighted for merit aid. I thought my son was a lock for one of their top scholarships based on his SATs, but his unweighted GPA might not get him there.</p>
<p>Colleges do want to see you challenging yourself in high school by taking the hardest classes offered to you...but they also want to see you having success in the courses you take. If you're sure you can't beat a C in the higher level class but that you can get an A in the lower level, go with the lower level. But if you could study hard and get a B or a B+ in the higher level that's probably your best bet. Besides, harder classes will prepare you better for standardized testing.</p>
<p>they'll only really betterprepare you for sat 2's</p>
<p>"But if you could study hard and get a B or a B+ in the higher level that's probably your best bet"....</p>
<p>Boy, does this warrant an "it depends" response.....What schools are we talking about? Large State Universities? Small privates? Totally depends on that....without knowing, this may or may not be true.......</p>