<p>I'm a graduating senior with a 2.994 right now, and I need to bump it up to a 3.0. I'm taking my last class at summer school and I was wondering.. if I take it as pass/no pass and passed the class, will it bump my GPA up or will it have no effect? Please give me some input on this, thanks in advance!</p>
<p>It has no effect.</p>
<p>P/NP has no effect on your GPA. But if you apply for graduate school, a NP will count as an F and will contribute a 0 to your GPA.</p>
<p>BTW, if you don’t mind me asking, what is your major?</p>
<p>Do NP affect application to business school and law school? If there is NP(not allowed to drop that crappy professor’s impacted course), how to get out of the situation?</p>
<p>kfjkfj: Yes they do. They are the equivalent of F’s. In your situation, just change it to letter grading and suck it up and do the best you can. A crappy professor isn’t really a good enough excuse for failing a class</p>
<p>For law school, a P is acceptable and it doesn’t affect your GPA, though most schools recommend you don’t have “too many” (it’s very ambiguous as to what is “too many,” but most people would say no more than 2 or 3).</p>
<p>A NP would count as a 0 or an F, so it would affect your GPA for law school, even if it doesn’t affect your regular UCLA GPA. LSDAS is calculated slightly differently than UG GPA. For instance, an A- is a 3.67 instead of a 3.7 and an A+ is a 4.3 instead of 4.0.</p>
<p>If you are about to get a NP or already got a NP, then there’s nothing you can do about it. FYL? Learn from it and never do it again.</p>
<p>I’ve taken two fiat luxes which are only offered as P/NP but I really wanted to take some classes just for my own interest as pass no pass. Should I avoid taking any more or am I fine because fiat luxes don’t offer letter grading so it’s not like I opted into it?</p>
<p>I was under the impression that because classes like Fiat Luxes don’t have an option for letter grading, it doesn’t really fall under the same rules (i.e. you can take however many you want). Anyone actually have an answer?</p>
<p>Those 1 unit Fiat Lux classes (or any seminar class) that ONLY have pass/no pass grading options don’t count toward the number of P/NP criteria on law school/grad school admissions. They’re only concerned about when you changed your 4 or 5 unit class to P/NP. But of course, if you do a NP for 1 unit courses, it’ll still count as a 0 or F, but it’ll only weigh in for 1 unit.</p>
<p>Regardless…you shouldn’t be getting NP in Fiat Lux seminars anyways…I heard they’re dead easy and require little work.</p>
<p>Good to know. And yeah, definitely agree with notaznguy about getting a NP in a Fiat Lux, haha.</p>
<p>Can you change your classes to Pass/No pass anytime during the course (like a week before the final) or is there a set time where it is possible?</p>
<p>^Nah there’s a deadline (which is like week 6 I think)</p>