<p>" UM only counts full year, core curriculum courses, so unless you’re on block schedule, you’ll only use your final grade. " </p>
<p>Even for my full year courses, my school only gives grades per semester. We don’t get a final grade, just 2 semester grades. :[</p>
<p>"UM only counts full year, core curriculum courses, so unless you’re on block schedule, you’ll only use your final grade. "</p>
<p>Does this mean that UM doesn’t calculate my social studies electives like AP Gov and Sociology which were only one semester classes into my GPA?</p>
<p>^ That’s something I’ve wondered for a looong time, and now I’m still unsure. Some people have told me electives like that DO count, and some told me they don’t. Hope you figure it out =] I personally hope they do count it because it would add a lot of “4.0” to my average.</p>
<p>From 9th grade to now, I don’t think I’ve ever took a class that wouldn’t be included in UM GPA ( besides gym, which is required). Though this year I have to take intro computers, and intro arts ( requirements), both a semester long, I suspect they won’t be counted… though in all UM does not even include senior year grades with GPA.</p>
<p>I think they’d count academic electives, like government and sociology, but not non-academic electives like auto shop and tech ed.</p>
<p>I’m sure they will count your social science classes.</p>
<p>Ok. Anyways, my transcript only has semester grades on it. There’s no such thing as a “final grade”. Besides, how would they be able to calculate a final grade from an A- and a B+ when there are no percentages given?</p>
<p>help me!!! ^^post 20…</p>
<p>^ No idea…I’ve never known anyone who totally skipped a high school grade. When people I know are really smart, they just take college courses and dual enroll at a university, but not totally skip a grade. Have you been taking college courses? I don’t even know how you’d have the 4 years of English and all of the other requirements to even be eligible to apply…</p>
<p>yosup UM takes each semester grade and use it to calculate your UM GPA.</p>
<p>When someone said they only count full year ( which I’ve never read on), more than likely they are stating UM takes each semester grade ( of a course that takes two semester), and use the two semester grades to calculate your UM GPA.</p>
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<p>Wrong. If you have semester grades, they use them to calculate your GPA. There are many classes that aren’t a full year ya know.</p>
<p>ok, so if i take the same 7 classes for 1 year, then there’s 14 semester grades. someone who has block scheduling and takes 4 courses a semester, 8 courses a year, has only 8 semester grades. how does that work? </p>
<p>i guess i don’t know about you guys. for my school, the transcripts only show my overall grades, and all APs and core classes are full year. i guess UM calculates it differently for different schools. ask your UM rep when they come to your school.</p>
<p>Elasticity and Neon Green, I would suggest that you call the admissions office and ask an admissions counselor for the answers to your questions. They do not look to keep the answers to these questions a secret and the answer from the posters will be less reliable. At my daughter’s high school there are semester grades and they average the semester grades - the admission rep has told us how they calculate the GPA. They count semester classes as long as they are core curriculum classes.</p>
<p>yosup, when colleges say 4 years of english, do they mean literally 4 years or just 4 credits of english.</p>
<p>^ 4 credits.</p>
<p>^^If the 4 credits represents four years of English, not TWO years of English : )
So, E., yes you need four years of English. If you chose to take two English credits in Jr. year for a total of 4, then you’re good. </p>
<p>However, if the reason that you’re asking is because you’ve skipped a year, you will need to get all your advice from the real deal (admissions) as your situation is unique. Because your situation suggests you are a standout scholar, I am optimistic that they would make provisions for odditites in your record, eg. only 3 yrs. of English. That said, it is better to ask!
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>That 4 years of English can’t be a hard requirement. Either that or they count classes like speech as English classes, as I only took 3 real years of English.</p>
<p>On their application, they say 4 years of English is required, and on the part where you list how many English classes you’ve taken, it says “(full year courses (4))”.</p>
<p>Well, I have 4 credits, and I took english over the summer before junior year.</p>
<p>lmao I have a 2.9 on their scale…I bombed 10th grade.</p>