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What classes do colleges look at when calculating GPA?

I've heard that when colleges calculate your high school GPA, they only use the core classes (math, english, science, etc.) and leave out the electives. I have A's in all my electives, which helps boost my GPA up, but do colleges include those electives?

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  • L
    Lv 4
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    They usually count all your class and weigh them and but are seen as unweighted as well for them to see your course load and how well you do in a challenging enviroment.

    Some colleges only use core subjects but most look at every class.

    As long as you got a unweighted 3.0 I think you're fine.

  • 4 years ago

    you prefer a 4-3 hundred and sixty 5 days college degree to apply to scientific faculties. they don't ask or care what your actual college grades have been. you do not might desire to get into an ivy league for college to apply to a minimum of one for med college. you basically might desire to get into any properly college and take the premed categories. The ivies turn down endless numbers of four.0 scholars and valedictorians each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days - there is not any minimum GPA and a maximum suitable one won't constantly get you in the two. a scientific degree is an MD, now not a doctorate - that is a PhD. in case you prefer to treat victims, you pass to med college to get an MD. in case you prefer to do learn, you pass to grad college to get a PhD. the two technique you nevertheless prefer a bachelors degree first. Bachelors is 4 years, MD is one greater 4 years, grad college might desire to be 4-8 for people who did that instead. The ivies have some properly med faculties - like Harvard and UPenn - although there are non-ivies that are merely besides if now not larger, including Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Washington college St. Louis. The ivies do not seem the friendly for the entire element.

  • drip
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    US colleges look at all classes you took in HS. Every class grades counts on your unweighted cumulative GPA.

    For scholarships some colleges calculate your GPA for core subjects only

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