high school transcript for college admissions

[Anonymous]

How do most colleges assess a high school transcript that lists both semester grades and a final year end grade for year long classes? Is it really the final grade that matters or do they look at each semester? Was not familiar with the practice of listing semester grades, or how colleges view them, because most publics (which I'm more familiar with) that I'm aware of around here list only final year end grades on the transcript.

[Anonymous]

At our school you get a fall semester grade, a spring semester grade, and the final grade is the average of the 2

[Anonymous]

At Potomac only the final year’s grade is on transcripts. School can request semester grades but typically only do so for ED applications.

[Anonymous]

It may be that every school is different, but ours only sends end of course grades. So, one grade or year-long courses, and one grade for semester-long electives. No comments, either, just the course grade.

[Anonymous]

You should post this on the college forum. Not here.

[Anonymous]

Don’t care about public school grades because they are meaningless. Interested in how privates do it

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen the transcript for our private, but given the report cards, I'll take a leap....there is a grade for each semester with no whole year grade.

[Anonymous]

Many colleges now require you to input more information than may appear on a transcript anyway.

DD's private school transcript lists only end-of-year grades, but a number of colleges have required her to put in individual grades for each trimester. That suggests colleges may be trying to identify when schools are using some tricks to increase GPAs (like MCPS averaging a B and an A to an A, regardless of the scores underlying each grade).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many colleges now require you to input more information than may appear on a transcript anyway.

DD's private school transcript lists only end-of-year grades, but a number of colleges have required her to put in individual grades for each trimester. That suggests colleges may be trying to identify when schools are using some tricks to increase GPAs (like MCPS averaging a B and an A to an A, regardless of the scores underlying each grade).

Good private schools don’t do this and colleges know it.