<p>Just wonderin'</p>
<p>As in NU GPA, or for admissions purposes? Either way, no.</p>
<p>For admissions purposes. Yay!!! Do you think they’ll forgive mediocre grades in honors courses if they were early freshman year and I’ve improved since then?</p>
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<p>No. You’ll be required to wear a scarlet B on all your clothing while you attend. ;)</p>
<p>Think about this logically, liv. They had ~30,000 applicants this past year. Each state has different requirements for electives (for example, my state requires phys ed all 4 years, other states have different requirements), and different school districts have different requirements as well (for example, some might require X units of art, X units of math, X units of consumer science). Some schools count those things in GPA; others don’t. How they count them in GPA may also differ from school to school (e.g., is an A in an honors course weighted at 4.5 or 5.0).</p>
<p>Do you REALLY think that NU is going to sit there, enter all 30,000 students’ transcripts into a database, and try to puzzle it out that in Joey’s school, he’s required to take 4 years of gym but in Susie’s school, she only needed to take 2 years - but oh, she took 3, what does that say about her … And in Mary’s school, an A in honors comes in at a 4.5 but an A in an AP class comes in at a 5.0, but in Bobby’s school, honors / AP are the same thing and come in at a 5.0?</p>
<p>Come off it. They look at it for the general gist of whether you are qualified or not. They cannot sit there and re-calculate everyone’s GPA to some uniform standard. It’s just not possible.</p>
<p>Hahaha true</p>
<p>Electives for my school are any classes you aren’t required to take to graduate. </p>
<p>For math, anything after PreCalculus is an elective. For science, anything after chemistry. </p>
<p>I finished those requirements sophomore year. So now all of my classes are “electives” except for English, which is required all four years. </p>
<p>NU would have to ask each school their policy on electives. In my case, taking out electives would disregard my junior and senior year classes. Doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>Good point. I mean, it really wouldn’t make sense even if transcripts were somehow computer-generated and put into some sort of recalculation program, because even then the discrepancy between what’s an elective and not would be too subjective. I was just confuses because I’d heard some people say in past, “this school recalculated your GPA.”</p>
<p>*recalculates (damn autocorrect)</p>