How do these grades look?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Here are the classes I took throughout high school and the grades I got in each of them. Right now I'm also a sophomore trying to pick out courses for junior year. Do you have any suggestions about what classes I should take junior year or any advice about my current grades?</p>

<p>Freshman year:
English I Honors 91
World History Honors-91
PE/Health I 85
Culinary Arts/Personal Finance-95
Algebra I Honors 85
Earth/Space Science Honors- 86
Orchestra 95
French II 87</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
English II Honors 79
Geometry Honors 77
PE/Health II 82
Sociology 95
Biology Honors
US History I Honors
Art I
French III</p>

<p>Junior Year (What I'm thinking of taking)
English III Honors
Algebra II (or should I take honors even though my previous grade was low?)
Chemistry Honors
PE/Health III
US History II Honors (or should I take APUSH?)
AP European History
Art II
Art III (I really like art- is it fine if I double up?)
(Anatomy and French IV are my back ups)</p>

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<p>I would advise against Honors English III, your English grades aren’t the highest.
I would take regular Algebra II, it’s a rigorous course.
And the rest is kind of difficult to make a judgment on, considering you didn’t post all of your grades.</p>

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<p>Depending on your school’s grading scale, you probably have around a 3.0, which has become average due to grade inflation.
I would avoid honors English and Math.
Chemistry will involve some math at the Algebra I level but it’s not too bad.
You probably shouldn’t take APUSH at the same time as AP Euro, so just take honors US.</p>

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<p>thanks deturmaned, the reason why my grades were low in English was because of tardies and me not doing the summer work. I’ll be sure to do it next year. Not all my grades are up on here since I’m in the second semester of sophomore year and don’t have the final grades for half of my classes.</p>

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<p>right now, halcyonheather, I have a weighted gpa of 3.6. I don’t know what it is unweighted. I’m thinking of either taking APUSH or AP EURO junior year but I’m not sure which one.</p>

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<p>Calculated your unweighted GPA for you, since you don’t know.
Your cumulative unweighted GPA is 3.07.</p>

<p>Assuming 4 classes is one semester:
for Freshman year, 1st semester GPA is 3.60
2nd semester GPA is 3.33
cumulative is 3.47 GPA.</p>

<p>for Sophomore year, 1st semester GPA is 2.75.</p>

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<p>^
It depends on their grading scale, though.
I mean, at some schools an 82 would be a C and at others it would be a B and so forth.</p>

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<p>True. I calculated it based on this grading scale:</p>

<p>letter range<br>
A+ 97-100<br>
A 94-100
A- 90-93<br>
B+ 87-89<br>
B 84-86<br>
B- 80-83<br>
C+ 77-79<br>
C 74-76<br>
C- 70-73<br>
D+ 67-69<br>
D 65-66<br>
F 0-64</p>

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<p>^You have 97 to 100 as an A and a A+ there. My school personally has an A as 93 and higher, no A+. And F is 59 and down, but never got anywhere close to that.</p>

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<p>Sorry, pretend that the A+ bit isn’t there.</p>

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<p>I’ve always wondered how this grade system works, does the A or A+ give you the 4.0?
Does an A- give you like a 3.67 or something?</p>

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<p>My school has A (4.0) as 94-100 and B (3.0) as 85-93.
I always thought adding plus/minus to grades made everything really confusing.</p>