<p>What's better taking a lot of hard courses a semester and potentially having bad GPA or taking fewer courses to raise your GPA. I was planning on taking organic chemistry, biology, physics, and calculus 4 at college but now I'm scared that I won't get a good GPA at the end of this. Right now my GPA is around 2.7, I want to raise it but I am not sure that taking all these classes are going to help me. I am debating on whether I should only take 3 of these classes or should I just go for it and do all four. Please Help!!!</p>
<p>Depends: What do you want to do after graduation?</p>
<p>I’d say if your goal is to raise your gpa, take only 3 for now and then take the 4th one the following semester. They’re all rather difficult sounding courses. In the mean time maybe work on a minor, gen eds, or electives that are easier. Good luck!</p>
<p>if your goal is to raise your GPA then mix the hard classes with some easy A electives and use a GPA calculator to see how they will affect you GPA with different grades.also look on ratemyprfessor and make sure you choose an easy teacher or at least one where the students say the professor gave good lectures/notes and had office hours where they actually cared about the students. </p>
<p>@Vctory I think I want to go to grad school.</p>
<p>What kind of grad school? Do you have gen eds that you can mix in there to lighten your workload? There’s no reason to take all of those at once unless you need them all done within a certain time frame</p>
<p>Many grad schools have a minimum GPA requirement of 3.0. I think raising your GPA should be a priority. Is there a reason that you have to take those four classes? Could you take a couple of those and add in some easy A’s as a GPA booster?</p>
<p>yeah maybe I can add some electives like a foreign language instead, they say those are easy classes. I’m thinking Chinese or Japanese.</p>
<p>Chinese and Japanese classes are not easy classes… They require a lot of work and study and typically intro classes for them have daily homework. I know because I major in Japanese, so I’ve been there.</p>
<p>That would be a very challenging course load. It wouldn’t be easy to raise your GPA while taking all of those courses. </p>
<p>With a 2.7 GPA, I’d say raising it should be priority number one. Not to sound presumptuous, but with a 2.7 GPA it’s safe to assume that you have made some mistakes, and had some classes that you haven’t done fantastic in. Given past experience, do you think you could pull off a course load like that and raise your GPA at the same time?</p>
<p>The fact that you’re asking whether you should take more classes, -or- focus on raising your GPA, is the answer to this question in itself. I’d mix some Gen Ed classes in there to lighten the load up a little bit, unless there is a compelling reason for you to take them all at once.</p>
<p>Don’t underestimate the difficulty of a foreign language course. The last two semesters for me were both calculus, physics, chemistry, anthropology, and Spanish. I spent as much time studying Spanish as I did any of the other classes. </p>
<p>I would not take 3 lab courses and Calculus at the same time. Primarily any further schooling would care about your GPA much more than the fact that you took 4 hard courses at the same time. Most colleges have a distribution requirements (how much science, math, social sciences, etc( for a particular major so it makes sense to spread the tougher courses around with the “easier”.</p>