<p>Took gr12 math in gr11 year. I wanted to show my ambition in learning new things.
Finished with 86%. Far from my 96% goal. </p>
<p>Should I re-take gr12 math this year to bump up my mark to 96%?
86% will not get me into ivy league. But would colleges look down upon the fact I re-took the class? (I also re-took gr11 math to bump my 83% to 94%) My average is around 90%. Math is bringing down my average.</p>
<p>re-taking the class simply for the purposes of getting into an ivy is not a wise move, if for no other reason than that no matter who you are, it is unlikely you will be accepted. </p>
<p>If you have mastered the material, then you should proceed to the next course. An 86%, by most all accounts, represents mastery of the material.</p>
<p>Yes I have mastered the concepts taught, but there is no next course.
Do you think they will automatically assume I retook it for a higher mark? Because if they ever ask me why, I will tell them I was bad at time management and put too much load on myself. I was volunteering 20+ hours a week in my community. Plus everything else in my life it was just hard to balance and I ended up with a grade that does not reflect my true abilities.</p>
<p>If you retake a course for which you already seem to have learned the material, it looks like you’re filling that slot in your schedule with a blow-off course and a GPA booster. Even if you got a 100%, it wouldn’t be impressive, because it looks like you’re taking the easy way out.</p>
<p>Since you’re ready for the next level of math, you should attempt to enroll in a college course via a dual enrollment program. If that’s not possible, you should use that spot in your schedule to take a course in which you’re going to learn something.</p>
<p>The point of taking a course is to learn something, not to earn a certain grade.</p>
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<p>Plenty of applicants have busy schedules and excellent grades. This is not an excuse.</p>
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<p>That’s why you have a GPA. If it really doesn’t reflect your true abilities, they’ll be able to see that it’s an outlier. There’s no reason to retake it to prove that you can do well in a course (because they really don’t care whether you can do well the second time - it’s the first time that matters). The course would obviously be easier the second time, so you’re not proving that whatever grade you got the second time is one you were ever capable of getting the first time around.</p>
<p>Further, I challenge that your grade is anything but a reflection of your true abilities. While it may not reflect your mathematical abilities, there’s more to life than just those - your low grade is, in this case, a reflection of your time-management abilities.</p>