Does getting good grades in electives(excluding PE) matter at all?

Applying to College
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I am allowed to leave school early if I don’t want to take electives.
I was thinking about taking beginner band since I head it was an easy A. If it will not matter and it won’t help me in college admissions at all, then I would rather leave school 50 minutes early. Taking the class will maybe raise my class rank if I get an A but I’m ranked 18 out of 520 students, which is the top 10% anyways so a slightly higher class rank won’t matter anyways right? I have a 3.7 weighted GPA so an A in band will slightly raise my GPA.

By the way, I can’t add an academic class instead of an electives. Electives are all that is available for me. I am already taking 6 academic classes anyways. Most people at my school just take 5 academic classes and 2 electives…

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What would you be doing instead of taking a class?

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@halcyonheather

Do my HW and prep for the SAT. Plus I am a senior so I will have to work on applications and such.

Here is my senior year schedule.

First Semester

AP Physics Algebra Based
AP Government
AP Eng Lit & Comp
Environment Science
Spanish 3
(College) Calculus 1— I take this at a university for dual-enrollment at night

Second Semester

AP Physics Algebra Based
AP Eng Lit & Comp
Environmental Science
Spanish 3
(College) Calculus 2— I take this at university for dual-enrollment at night
(College) Computer Science— I take this at a university for dual-enrollment at night

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What electives or creative art classes have you taken in previous years? From my experience, electives only help, if you get good grades of course. So it also depends on the university you’re applying to…

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@Pepirina

I took Dance Performance 1 sophomore year and Dance Performance 2 junior year. They were really easy A’s.

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I think you should be ok without any additional electives. Maybe you can pick up an internship or volunteer somewhere. Good luck!