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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neat trick!  Do a lot of kids do this?  It would seem to benefit anyone who has over a 4.0 weighted GPA.

However, it will lower your unweighted GPA (unless you already have a perfect 4.0 unweighted).[/quote]

Most kids DO NOT do this beyond the required EPF class.  College admission officers want to see grades for academic classes.  Take a look at the excellent admissions blog of Dean J Associate Admissions at UVA: http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/ and this post on her Twitter feed:  https://twitter.com/UVaDeanJ/status/950549871936835584 where she says "I'm looking at applicants from one of my schools in GPA order. The programs are all over the map. Remember that transcripts tell stories that GPAs don't. #UVA #UVA22 #collegeapplications"
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Per the description other PP posted, you can do one class per year.
So, if you make these classes all P/F:
9th: PE
10th: PE
11th: Band or 3rd year Language
12th: EPF

Something like that.  I only see upside here... it raises your GPA (which gets you more careful looks at your transcript).
I guess I am not really seeing a downside (except maybe lowering the unweighted).

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Some of the top colleges use software to automatically re-weight GPAs by stripping out PE and Band and similar courses so they can better compare apples to apples.  It's probably OK to take PE and EPF pass/fail but would caution about taking substantive classes like foreign language that way.  [/quote]

So there are benefits to taking band/drama/orchestra all 4 years of HS after all![/quote]

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