Question about GPA

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I have a friend who is a senior and has just finished the college admission process. His highschool gpa was only around a 3.5, but he consistenly took online and local college courses, as well as some high school courses online, throuhgout high school. Hes gotten all A's in all of the extra courses he took outside of schools.</p>

<p>When it was time to send college applications in, he talked to his college counselor and what she did was average his high school gpa with his gpa of classes taken outside of school. So he had a 3.75 GPA, and this is what was on his secodnary school report. THe school does not rank, btw.</p>

<p>Have any of you heard of schools doing this? Is it common?</p>

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<p>thats what you're supposed to do</p>

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<p>They don't do that at my school, though many others do. Basically when adcoms see it, it's obvious you were trying to get your GPA up with the help of outside courses, so it's not going to look all that great. One or two subjects of interest would be understandable though.
It's good to do well in what you have in school. But some schools might not have a class you know you'd love or even maybe one got filled up. It happens...so online courses are there.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>There are colleges that will average your high school GPA with courses taken outside of school.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>