College Schedule Mini-ProjectCollege 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 Calculating Weighted Mean:

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)