<p>The more classes you take, the less chance you will raise your gpa?</p>
<p>no. it depends where your gpa is at.</p>
<p>if you have a 2.0 and you take 20 more classes or 50 more classes and get all A's then you will raise your gpa.</p>
<p>IF you have a 3.5 or above, then you actually have to take a lot of clases or classes that have a large unit value and get A's in the class in order to raise your gpa small amounts.</p>
<p>my gpa is 3.2. I want to raise like .2. I am taking 5 classes and planning to change 2 of them to p/np. if i get all A's on my three classes my grade would raise to 3.4. By doing this would this raise my chance of getting into ucla, ucsc, ucsb, ucd, berkeley (long shot)? by the way i am an out of state prospect?</p>
<p>It depends on you. I started school and got caught up in the "fun" of college, and had a 2.2 GPA my 1st semester; raised it to only a 2.5 my freshman year. By sophomore year, it was still way under 3.0, and I needed a good GPA for grad school, so the fall of my junior year, I took 20 credit hours (most schools recommend 14 or 15, ... 16, tops). But I shut down my social life, aced them, and boosted my GPA big-time. From then on, I knew how to balance partying and school, and did fine and got into a good Grad school program... and finished in 4 years It can be done </p>
<p>... but you've got to be determined to do that. It's probably best NOT to take more credits, but to work your grades up with the minimum 1st. It depends on your mindset, though, and what you want to do. That one semester wasn't fun, but the payoff was great.</p>
<p>p/np option still helps you earn credits right?</p>
<p>yes you get the units , but it doesnt get factored into your gpa.</p>
<p>that's a good thing right?</p>
<p>well colleges tend to limit which p/np classes are available. It is also possible to have an overall limit to how much p/np units contribute to your total unit count....</p>