My nephew's junior high school feeds to a senior high school along with two more junior high schools. He is a sophomore and has 5.5 weighted GPA out of 6.0 and ranks 2 in his school with a 0.002 diffrence.
Top ranking students from other two schools have GPA of 5.4 and 5.6. Do you recommend him to continue taking low GPA fine arts classes or take AP classes instead? He wants both, being a valedictorian and do fine arts which is factually impossible in his district so he has to sacrifice one for the other.
My response was to do what interests you more but his parents are in favor of dropping fine arts and taking some AP Calculus and AP Euro that doesn't interest him as much. He wants to know what would matter more to colleges if he isn't valedictorian or salutatorian but has high GPA vs having a slightly lower GPA with 4 years of fine arts. He is not the best Viola player in his school but he likes being part of orchestra.
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