<p>I go to a private Christian high school and every student is required to take a Bible class every year. And I don't complain too much because this class is always an easy GPA boost. But one of my teachers was saying today how most colleges will completely discount grades a student receives in a Bible class.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if this is true or not?</p>
<p>“completely discount”? As opposed to what? It’s certainly not AP Physics but classes in religious teaching aren’t uncommon. THey aren’t weighty and your doing well in them will be expected.</p>
<p>From the way my teacher made it sound, colleges will recalculate your GPA without your Bible class included. This sounds really extreme to me though.</p>
<p>Some colleges do recalculate GPA taking out classes like gym or religious classes - that’s true.</p>
<p>It likely depends on the college.</p>
<p>For example, on <a href=“http://doorways.ucop.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://doorways.ucop.edu</a> for California public universities, religion courses at religiously affiliated private high schools may be included in the list of college-preparatory courses (on which GPA is calculated from), but as college-preparatory electives rather than core English or history / social studies courses.</p>
<p>^I think it might also depend on the high school. My son took a very popular class at his large, liberal public high school called “The Bible as Literature.” It was a tough and rewarding class, and he worked hard for his grade. I’d be surprised if it would have been discounted, knowing that the school was not a religious one.</p>
<p>Many colleges recalculate GPA by using grades only in courses in the college prep areas – English, math, foreign language, lab sciences and social studies. Whether a course in religion would fall into that group depends on the course and the college, e.g., a course such as the one mentioned above, “The Bible as Literature,” probably would at most colleges.</p>
<p>You yourself call the class “an easy GPA boost”. And then you wonder why the colleges may not take the class grade seriously?</p>
<p>@KKmama</p>
<p>The classes are definitely an easy A at my school, but I know that at some Christian schools they can be much harder.</p>