<p>My school’s college counselor told me that colleges don’t care about gym grades. They have their own formula for calculating GPA based on what they consider important.</p>
<p>OP states in a summer post that he is a rising sophomore. </p>
<p>Clearly, he/she has time to bring up a gym grades, over the next 5 semesters, if that is really his most pressing issue and he feels GYM is a threat.</p>
<p>But, I’m going to go ahead and suggest this is far, far too much focus on gym. It’s an unnecessary distraction and to focus on it is to waste valuable time. Go do something productive. Go look at what colleges state, in their very own web pages, that they value in their freshman class, what they look for. </p>
<p>You’re either going to go do some of this legwork for yourself or drown in distractions and get no closer to a successful app.</p>
<p>@lookingforward, may you please explain to me what the common app is? i really don’t get it…</p>
<p>@93tiger, i have 7 courses in my school. (5 core + 2 gym). so the differences can be divided by 7, and added up, and that will be how much my gpa can increase.</p>
<p>No, I’m just saying that if you’re a rising sophomore, no need to worry. Your academic GPA will far overshadow this one grade. It seems big now, but it won’t come senior year.</p>
<p>If you only have one year of grades counting towards your GPA then you have plenty of time to raise it. Also, this means that this lower (its still a B+/A-; not bad) gym grade will have much less effect after sophomore year and junior year grades.</p>
<p>In reference to the common app question, its a single application what works for over 400 colleges.</p>
<p>? so is it like a piece of work you put together to form an application to send to colleges? like listing your volunteer hours, ECs, & transcript?</p>