<p>so say i'm taking 5 courses... and i get a b in one of them. what's my gpa gonna be like, if i get a's in all the others?</p>
<p>does it bring it down alot, since i'm only taking 5 courses (3 credits each) oppose to 7 classes like in high school?</p>
<p>You will have a 3.8. You take 5 classes and get 4 A’s (which count as four points) and one B (which counts as tree points). (4+4+4+4+3)/5 = 3.8</p>
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You’re taking different classes in the spring, right? In high school it sounds like you took the same classes all year long.
High school: 7 classes per year
College: 5 classes per semester * 2 semesters per year = 10 classes per year</p>
<p>If the college uses a 4.0 scale and all the courses are worth the same number of credit hours, your GPA for this semester will be around 3.80. If you’re a first-semester freshman, that is also your cumulative GPA for now. If you take the same number of credit hours next semester and get straight As, your cumulative GPA will go up to 3.9.</p>
<p>yeah but the above two posts only work if you assume each class is the same number of credit hours. You also have to calculate that in when you’re weighting it. If it’s a 1 credit hour class it isn’t going to bring you down to a 3.8 but if it’s a 5 credit hour class it will bring you down more.</p>
<p>I believe that the original poster stated that each class is worth three credits.</p>
<p>Does your school award separate GPA points for pluses and minuses? </p>
<p>At my son’s school, am A- (say a 93) is not worth a 4…it’s a 3.6…each school is different so you might want to ask your school.</p>