My freshman year, I received C’s both semester in gym and art, which lowered my GPA. The teachers for those classes are notorious for low grades, and very few people get B’s (so my class rank wasn’t affected). My sophomore year, we had a new gym teacher so my grades for it improved. I got a solid 80 for art that year, and was able to drop this year (junior)
My questions are :
- do colleges recalculate GPA without these classes? For most, these are easy A’s. My GPA is as follows (unweighted)
9th: 2.9, 3.3 without gym & art
10th: 3.7, 3.8 without
11th: 4.0, 4.0 without
- Would this affect me even if I’m not majoring in those fields? I show a gradual improvement in gym, but I wonder if this would make me seem less well rounded with the arts.
- Would colleges cross reference others grades? My C would still be above average for my graduating class.
Related to this, my kids were unhappy that their high school only gave credit/no credit for art, gym, and choir. Their best grades would have been gym!
Some do. Some don’t. Few will tell you what their policy is.
Maybe. Maybe not. No way to know. Certainly they will not put much weight in a PE grade as long as you passed, but many colleges value exposure to arts, so they will consider those grades.
Not down to the course level; they don’t have the time even if they wanted to. If there are multiple applicants from your HS applying to the same college, the AP most likely will formally or informally rank students by GPA.
Since the grades, as you say, would have affected all students, and they did not affect your rank, I would not spend much time thinking about it. It is what it is at this point.
A lot of schools recalculate- my son got merit for a 3.0 at one school while another told him he had a 2.4! I know UVA recalculates using core courses