<p>Hey guys so my gpa right now is like a 3.87. which i'm kinda happy about but what frustrates me is that it could have been better if i didn't take some electives. all the B's I've gotten were in ridiculous classes.
heres the list:</p>
<p>Ceramics I: B+
Drawing: B+
Ceramics II: B
Gym 9: B+
Gym 10: B+</p>
<p>will colleges look down on these grades? i have As in everything else though....</p>
<p>no its fine</p>
<p>i wouldnt worry about it, thats still a damn good gpa. a 3.87 will definitely not hurt you.</p>
<p>will it hurt your chances? it’s not like you were born with a 100% chance of getting in to Harvard and that you’ve been destroying it day by day. you EARNED those 5 B’s. if you didn’t show up to those classes, and failed them instead, then you would have no chance.</p>
<p>Most colleges are more likely to look at your transcript and your grades in each classes than compare GPAs with other students. So that your GPA is lower because of those courses won’t matter. If they do associate those grades with lack of effort (probably not the case), it might hurt somewhat, but certainly not as if you got As in those classes and B+s in your core academic ones (not saying there’s anything wrong with physical education and the arts, both of which were required for graduation by my high school).</p>
<p>B in Gym? All you do is show up…</p>
<p>It won’t hurt you, no.</p>
<p>But lol epic fail… B in Gym and Ceramics? aha</p>
<p>Nah.</p>
<p>But seriously…how?</p>
<p>How the hell did you get a B in gym?</p>
<p>Ehh I got B’s in photography, but the standards were basically “You get an A if it’s publishable work.”</p>
<p>So who knows. Don’t assume that these courses are graded easily.</p>
<p>I had a gym teacher who graded as if you fully participated you got a 90. If you were ever absent you got a zero. You could make it up with writing a 5 paragraph essay.</p>
<p>I’m athletic and I barely got 95’s and did more than just participate. No 100’s were given. I barely passed the class with an A cause I got a B on the exam but, it’s still not just showing up to class.</p>
<p>Ceramics I had an F in, luckily, my counselor let me transfer out. I’m non-artistic though.</p>
<p>Not all gym classes are that easy. In my gym, the final exam is hard, and the teacher only gives you an hour to study for it. You never see the stuff that’s on the exam before exam day, and once you get it you have one hour. So, even if you show up and dress everyday and participate, you can bomb the exam and get a B for the quarter.
I barely got A’s in gym a lot of quarters. You have to pass certain “tests” that make up most of your grade.It’s pretty easy to get B’s on these, especially since I royally suck at volleyball. </p>
<p>I can’t comment on art because I haven’t taken it in school since elementary.</p>
<p>You guys actually get grades for gym?? We just get an “S” for satisfactory or a “U” for unsatisfactory, meaning you have to make up gym classes.</p>
<p>I don’t think a class like Gym or Ceramics will even matter to any sensible college unless its your intended area of study.</p>
<p>^
Agree… just will hurt your GPA more if anything</p>
<p>yeah lmao i agree gym and ceramics Bs are epic fail.
but it is so ridiculous because our ph ed department does NOT GIVE OUT As. AT ALL. all these other schools just give out As for gym but at my school they never give them out. NONE of the jocks/athletic people in my grade/school have EVER gotten an A at all. the best you can basically get is an A-. which i did get. but i also got two B+s. </p>
<p>so lmao i guess that the easier classes such as gym and ceramics are really harder instead.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t really hurt you.</p>
<p>Some schools just look at your academic GPA, not your total. And since those are electives, those don’t count.</p>
<p>You’re the typical nerd. A’s in everything but art and gym. :)</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. Don’t sweat.</p>
<p>Na Schools recalculate core GPA and often only include core+ classes that are pertinent to you, like music classes if your studying music in college.</p>