High school credits from middle school
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Anonymous
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Do high school classes taken in middle school count toward their high school GPA? Or is just credit only situation if their pass the class but the actual grade earned is not factored once out of middle school? How does your school handle this?
I know it could vary by school, and if it is factored into high school GPA do colleges separate this out on admission application? |
Anonymous
| In MCPS, the HS classes in MS will count towards the GPA if they help the average, not hurt it. They appear on the transcript regardless, with a notation that they were taken in MS, so colleges can factor them in or not. |
Anonymous
| In FCPS they count towards your GPA. |
Anonymous
| In Arlington, they count. You have until June 15(double check if it matters to you) after Junior year to have them dropped. If you are dropping a :verified credit", you need a replacement. |
Anonymous
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My kid got her only C from a really bad language teacher who they fired at the end of the year (she could not speak the language, and would test kids on things she had not taught yet, for example). That was in middle school.
Anyway, the only way my kid could get it off the high school transcript was by repeating the class in high school. (She got an A with a sane teacher) |
Anonymous
| How do you go about getting it off transcript if they retake the class in high school? Or do colleges pretty much disregard and recalculate GPA based only classes taken 9-12? |
Anonymous
Contact your school. There is no "blanket" procedure. |
Anonymous
| Doesn't matter. Colleges don't care about 0.02 difference in GPA. |
Anonymous
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You have to fill a form and request it be taken off the transcript - do this quickly after a period you can't do the request.
You will have choice of how you want to handle it? just remove the grade but keep the credit or remove both. |
Anonymous
They do. Beware that if you change school systems, it could cause anomalies. My DD missed being valedictorian by a couple of hundreths of a point because five MS classes she got 99s in transfered with a grade of A instead of A+ since the one school system didn't do A-pluses and the HS she transfered to DID do A-pluses. So she finished 5th in the class instead of first. |
Anonymous
No, but say it was a C in Alg II or precalc taken as an 8th grader, that could make a difference |
Anonymous
| MCPS says they only include the grade on your GpA if it improves the GPA |
Anonymous
This. For my MCPS Class of 2025 kid, we had to fill out a form to indicate whether we wanted their 7th grade Algebra and French grades included in their GPA. Starting in 7th, it became automatic. So ultimately, if you had good grades overall and got a B in Algebra in middle school, it initially might not be included in your overall GPA; but if your high school grades start tanking, eventually that B might actually help you, and they’d include it, or vice-versa. But if, say, you tanked Geometry in 8th, then retook it in 9th, the new grade would replace the old. Because their class did 8th grade fully virtual, my kid knows several people who did that with math and foreign languages. |
Anonymous
| Middle school is tough enough without telling kids their grades will affect what colleges they can go to, how much merit aid they will get and ultimately what their lifetime earning potential will be. |
Anonymous
And yet, here we are. My DS started HS with a 4.3 (two honors math classes and a language so 4.0 uw) and it was a huge confidence booster. |