<p>My school requires that I take 4 full years of religion classes (all regular, no honors or AP) and 3 years of Art (in which I have managed to skim by on a couple APs).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, those mandatory regular classes have adversely affected my Cumulative GPA, while the AP art GPA boosts have managed to better it.</p>
<p>If I intend to enter college and not participate in a single art or religion class, or if I enter a college whose focus lies primarily with the sciences (the overwhelmingly probable outcome), will that college simply discard/disregard the grades that I received in those classes irrelevant to my education there?</p>
<p>I imagine that the list of required courses would be in the school profile your GC sends to colleges. </p>
<p>I know how you feel; my school requires standard econ and gov classes in senior year, spaces I would have liked to use for AP Psych and Physics II.</p>
<p>They can be irrelevant to my continued education or irrelevant in my career path of choice or irrelevant, useless, and unnecessary in the eyes of the college.</p>
<p>They are relevant to my graduation and my HS life, but wholly irrelevant post-graduation.</p>
<p>Frankly, your opinion of "religion" is irrelevant.
What is relevant, is your poor performance in those classes.
Why is it, then, that you excel at all of your other courses?</p>
<p>Your grades in religion, PE, art, computers, home ec, etc often are not calculated in your average. However, poor grades in those subjects are a flag and can hurt you.</p>
<p>If I'm able to make a strong case that the school graded on athletic ability, and that I was not able to take a PE course that would accommodate my physical disabilities, would colleges just ignore the grade?</p>