I have to take a 10-hour “Orientation” course through a local community college in order to take other courses at the college while still in high school. Even though I don’t really want credit for it, I have to have it in my high school transcript, and I believe it counts as a one-semester course, with half the credits of a normal high school class. I’m 100% sure I’m going to pass it since there’s like two assignments, but it’s a Pass/No Pass course. In my transcript, I was told, it will either have a P or NP. I have straight A’s and really don’t want this ruining my transcript. I’ve heard of some colleges treating a P as a “C” for GPA purposes. Does anyone know anything about this?
I don’t think its going to affect your GPA. Plus, any admission officers reading your transcript would understand what P/NP are.
You’re fine. Make note of it in the Additional Information section if you’re concerned, but really, I wouldn’t worry at all.
It’s completely fine because this isn’t an academic class and it would be clear that you don’t have the option of taking it for a letter grade.
(It would look suspicious if you had a P in an academic class, but I can’t imagine that colleges would interpret it as a C when they recalculated your GPA. If anyone has a source indicating that a college does this, I’m willing to be corrected.)
@halcyonheather Thanks, that’s reassuring. I don’t know where I heard that; I might be mistaken. But just googling, I found this: https://www.dvc.edu/enrollment/counseling/pdfs/Pass.pdf
“While CSU & UC honor DVC’s policy on Pass/
No Pass, some independent or out-of-state colleges and universities may count a P as a “C”
when computing your GPA for admission. (Currently, St. Mary’s College of California has this
policy.)”
Then don’t apply to St. Mary’s College 
Seriously though, it does not matter. The number of colleges that recalculate GPA’s is small, and even then, they look primarily at academic classes.