<p>So at my school the typical schedule consists of seven classes, with upperclassmen often taking only six classes. For me, I'm taking Leadership as a zero period, I don't have any free periods, and I take Advanced Drama as an eighth period. Because I'm taking four AP/honors classes and have As in three of them, every regular class that I get an A in lowers my GPA. Right now my cumulative GPA (just finished my junior year) is a 4.05 but if I took out PE, Leadership, and Advanced Drama it would be a 4.22. My question is: will colleges see past the number of my weighted GPA and look at what it would be without my extra classes? A lot of my friends have 4.4, 4.5, etc. GPAs because they're taking six classes with four or five of them being honors/APs. Does anyone have a similar situation? I really enjoy the extra classes I take and I'm not thinking of dropping them but I'm really concerned that my lower number is going to hurt me when I apply to college this year. Any insight is greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>P.S: Just so it's clear, I'm not taking PE as an extra class, I just took it out of the equation since very few schools include it when they count your GPA.</p>