For sophomores and juniors who are planning your courses for next year, please, don't select courses based on whether or not you think you'd be guaranteed to get an A. It is absolutely wrong-headed to dumb down your course of study to boost your GPA. Colleges aren't fooled. Here's the problem: colleges don't just look at your GPA, they look closely at the courses you've been taking. The college is more impressed by a difficult course of study and lower GPA than an easy course of study and a 4.0.
Use this rule of thumb: Each year in high school should be more difficult than the year before with senior year having the most challenging courses. Take the hardest courses you can each year and get the best grades you can each year. Whatever GPA you end up with, as long as you've tried to do the best you can in each class, will be a fine representation of your academic potential. Stop thinking about your GPA and start thinking about challenging yourself academically and thereby demonstrating the hard-working and competitive qualities that colleges want.
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