Include non academic grades in GPA?

[Hilltopmom]

Did you include non academic classes like PE, art, & health in your students GPA?

 

I can't decide.

 

Obviously, they are on the transcript (& are required by our state), but they do bump up the final GPA.

Schools here do include all classes in the GPA, so it seems like I should too?

 

I'm weighting his DE classes. I suppose they can chose to un weight or remove the non academic clases from the GPA if they want to anyways

 

(GPA matters for a few scholarships he's applying for, plus admission)

[Sebastian (a lady)]

If they are required by the state for homeschoolers I think you can include them if you want to.

 

I didn't include any courses on the transcript that did not go into gpa. I did not transcript PE, but commented on the school profile on fitness activities.

[EKS]

I included the grades for art, PE, etc.  The number of these classes was what was required for public schoolers in my state, so it's not like I was padding his transcript with them.  I did not weight the grades for DE classes (because grades are not weighted in the public schools in my state).

[lisabees]

I didn't. Hmmmm. Never even thought about it!

[Julie of KY]

I included everything - just as our local public school do. The vast majority of the classes were academic anyway.

 

If a school wants to recalculate the GPA they certainly can do so - and some do from what I hear.

[klmama]

I included them.  P.E. and health are required courses here, and they are graded at the local high schools.  If college admissions officers don't want to consider those types of courses in the GPA, they will refigure it without them.  

[Pegasus]

Honestly, I don't think it matters what you do.  Every school seems to have their own methodology for calculating the GPA of prospective students so they are going to recalculate it anyway.  Our flagship public university, for example, calculates what they call the "core GPA" that consists of specific courses and weights AP, IB, and dual enrollment courses.  

[brookspr]

Our public high school calculates an all-academic GPA and an all-subject GPA. The all-academic GPA includes only classes taken in math, science, social studies, world language and English. The all-subject GPA includes all courses taken. You could do something similar to that if you are concerned about making the GPA look inflated with those other courses.