<p>Like is it most common to include them?</p>
<p>I don’t think so. I think many schools recalculate GPA and take electives, religion classes, and PE out to get a real GPA for the English, Math, Science, Social Studies courses.</p>
<p>That said, my kids’ flagship doesn’t take any courses out, but that is unusual.</p>
<p>What school is that?</p>
<p>I know U of M doesn’t take electives out.</p>
<p>Is the OP referring to HS or college? Most high schools include all the electives in the cumulative GPA. Once a transcript is submitted for college apps, some colleges recalculate the HS GPA and omit PE, keyboarding, and other non-academic classes. However they do look at the class rank which is based on the HS cumulative GPA.</p>
<p>Once at university, all the courses are included in the GPA, whether they are electives or not.</p>
<p>I am referring to the often-recalculated high school GPA that college admissions committees will look at when deciding whether or not to admit a prospective student. Is it more common than not to take out electives (such as art, PE, nutrition, health, economics, lifeguarding, earth science, robotics, anatomy, etc.)?</p>
<p>Economics, Earth Science, Anatomy, and Robotics (maybe) sound like real classes.</p>
<p>I think some colleges don’t bother recalculating your GPA; they just look at your grades in general–how you handled difficult classes, whether there is an upwards trend, etc. They probably don’t care about a B in a wellness class though.</p>
<p>Haha, freshman year I got a B+ in a Foods and Nutrition course</p>
<p>my high school includes all electives in GPA except for gym. you just have to get a 60% in gym to go on to the next year</p>
<p>I think all high schools take them into account when calculating the gpa. Top colleges then look at the transcript as a whole and recalculate the value without taking the electives into account.</p>
<p>Do they actually take the time to do that!?</p>
<p>It depends on the college. When my sister went on her college search in Massachusetts and my parents dragged me along, I remember UMass of Amherst does recalculate GPA. I also remember that Harvard doesn’t because if they did it would be “a full time job.” I would suggest looking at the policies of the individual colleges that you are considering, rather than colleges in general.</p>
<p>Where does one find these policies?</p>
<p>do you know which schools take them out? all the ivies?
so art, pe, and bible wouldn’t be counted right?</p>
<p>From what I understand, it depends on the school. Overall, it seems like they keep them in. Harvard apparently told a CCer that they don’t because “that would be a job in itself.”</p>