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Originally Posted by Cory
This seems like looking for a solution to a problem that isn't a problem.
If you took nothing but AP classes your soph through senior years, your GPA would be like 4.6 without robotics and 4.5 with robotics.
I highly, highly doubt this actually harms you with a potential future college.
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In my high school, you need at least a 4.3 GPA to be top 10%, which is where you need to be for automatic admission to most state schools in Texas. If you are applying to UT, your GPA needs to be greater because their auto admit cutoff is around 7%.
Needless to say, auto admit makes Texas high school students very serious about GPA. The valedictorian of my class sits at around a 4.8 GPA. Sure you take all APs and make your grade, but for many students that is difficult to do with robotics, and would rather focus on their guaranteed college acceptance rather than a really awesome extracurricular activity.