Should I drop my Physics grade to raise my GPA?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Okay, I've been taking multiple science classes and I have enough credits for science.
Physics was a class that was a bit troublesome. </p>

<p>I had a 3.75 GPA.
With the Physics grade for this past school year, I would have a 3.73.
Without the Physics grade, I would have a 3.8. </p>

<p>I don't know what to do because if I drop it, I'd get a higher GPA. However, if I do drop it, colleges won't see that I took the class, and I heard colleges like seeing Physics on transcripts.</p>

<p>Should I just keep Physics on my transcript?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>wait…you can choose what grade stays in your transcript? ***?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve heard that colleges like to see physics on transcripts, as well but I’m not sure about the validity of it.</p>

<p>Can you explain how/why you can choose whether or not to keep physics on your transcript?</p>

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<p>please tell me you’re joking…</p>

<p>it’s such a tiny difference in GPA. you’re better off keeping it.</p>

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<p>It is not a huge difference I would keep physics on the transcript, especially if you are considering a science major for college…</p>

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<p>This has to be a ■■■■■ post. I can’t fathom how you would be able to simply drop a class off of your transcript if you didn’t do as well as you wanted in it.</p>

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<p>Not sure, because I keep hearing all this dumb crap about middle school classes counting for HS credit and colleges consider it. How silly is that? </p>

<p>But man, I wish the luxury of dropping grades to boost my GPA at my leisure was an option…</p>

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<p>@elleya. Middleschool classes dont count towards highschool. However, if you take highschool classes in middleschool they count. I took algebra 1, geometry, earthscience, and spanish 1 in 8th grade.</p>

<p>However, they dont count for highschool gpa. Just credits</p>

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<p>Well, I took Algebra I, Earth Science, and Spanish I and they didn’t count…ES isn’t a class at my HS, but Algebra I & Spanish I are. Nobody I know ever got HS credits for those.</p>

<p>Again, must be a school-to-school thing.</p>

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<p>This isn’t a ■■■■■ post. I took Physics in 11th grade, this past school year. </p>

<p>I know it’s a little difference, but it just shows a downward trend and I’m pretty paranoid about these things, I’m sorry.
I’ve been a steady 3.75 all through high school. I’m thinking of keeping it since it does look good on college transcripts and I took IB Bio HL the same year, too. </p>

<p>If you have more than enough credits on a subject, for example, doubling up or tripling up on science, you can drop a grade you don’t like. However, it would just show up as you not taking a class, but as a teacher’s assistant(or whatever they have in your school). At least that’s what they do in my school since we have an elective of teacher’s assistant, which is basically people just sitting in the subschool/teacher’s room until someone tells them to send something to another teacher. Basically, a free period.</p>

<p>Sorry if it seems like a ■■■■■ post, it’s just with my SAT score being low, I just feel the need to get a higher GPA.</p>

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<p>Pfft, your school is so generous and coddling.</p>

<p>I…wouldn’t call 3.75 a low GPA by any stretch of the imagination.</p>