College Schedule Mini- Project College Prep Stats

Details  With most of us headed off for college next year, it’s important that we know how to:  Select Classes  Create a time schedule that makes sense for you  Calculate GPA  GPA’s in college are weighted! (A class worth more credit hours has a bigger effect on your overall GPA)

Project  You will receive a course catalog with many freshman level classes, their meeting times, and the number of credit hours.  You will use this catalog to create a schedule you would be comfortable with for your freshman year of college.  Once you’ve created this schedule, you will come to me, and I will use a random number generator to assign you mock grades for each class  You will then need to calculate your GPA

The Skill you Need This means sum Multiply each data value by the weight (w * x) then add all of these together Add together all of the weights (credits per class)