So I took a foundations of programming course for fun last year via our in-state course provider. I got an A in the class, but my school weighs them as academic classes (4.0 on a 6.0 scale), so it brings down my weighted GPA a lot. This only matters for decile ranking and making the top ten (which I certainly will be in), and we only rank the top 2. So it could mean the difference between coming 4th or being salutatorian, but this doesn’t really matter for college because we only report decile ranking.
If I leave it off my transcript, it also won’t be counted in my GPA. I want to pursue CS in the future, so would it benefit me by keeping it on my transcript? Or does it not matter because it’s just a trivial class (my school counts it as an elective, and it would bring up my UW GPA)…
I do care about my weighted GPA, but it’s not a priority.
More like, it’s a trivial concern. In the grand scheme of things, the time you took to type was more time than this warranted.
I’m not a big fan of doing extra, unneeded work, so the time it takes to make the request to exclude is better spent elsewhere. I’m even less of a fan of schools that give the option.Teaching their charges ways to game the system is beyond their mandate, IMO.
On another note, ranking 4 vs 2 will have no impact on your life. At all.
@skieurope Being number 2 gives me the opportunity to give me a speech. What if I make the greatest speech of all time 
lol
You might care about your weighted GPA. The colleges and universities that you apply to will not. They will care about which classes you took and what grades you got in each class.
This is a useful class, particularly for someone who is interested in CS. You got an A in it. You should include it on your transcript.
Aren’t you a rising soph, making this sort of calculated question premature? You value the chance to give a speech, when you’ve barely begun. And technically, you report all hs courses.
This is not the sort of class that tells a college much.
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This. You don’t have a choice. You need to report all transcripts.
It’s up to your HS if they’ll include courses taken outside your school in their GPA calculations.
That said, that I agree that this will make zero difference.