Transcripts if attended more than one high school

[Anonymous]

How does it work when student has attended more than one high school?

My DC will have 2 years at a rigorous private school and 2 years at a large public school. The private did not allow APs for 9&10 but the public offers several so my kid will look like they took less rigor than other classmates from the public school.

Will colleges get transcripts and school profiles from both high schools? I would like schools to see the context of both.

Also, the private only reported letter grades with +/- but the public reports numeric grades. They also calculate GPA very differently and now I'm not sure how to calculate GPA for comparison purposes.

When colleges read as school groups will they be able to identify that my kid didn't have all the same opportunities?

[Anonymous]

Both schools should send transcripts. You’ll need to contact the first school to find out how to request that.

As far as cumulative GPA, I don’t know, but you are far from the first person to have a kid with more than one high school. The colleges will be able to handle it. Your kid could reach out to their AO to ask how to calculate what should be self-reported, or ask a college counselor.

[Anonymous]

The most recent school should have all transcripts from the previous school and can send combined.

My kids were in a Bethesda MD HS and then a California HS - they requested everything, collated it and sent it on.

It happens all the time, it is standard proceedure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most recent school should have all transcripts from the previous school and can send combined.

My kids were in a Bethesda MD HS and then a California HS - they requested everything, collated it and sent it on.

It happens all the time, it is standard proceedure.

I know its fairly common which is why I asked hoping others had experience to share.

It looks like the current school did convert the old school into the new one, but I'm wondering if the requirements/limitations of the first school will be lost.

[Anonymous]

Ask your student's college counselor to also include the school profile for the 9-10th school. You can usually access the school profile from the school's website under "college counseling" or you can reach out to the former school and ask them to send it to you, which you can then share with your student's current college counselor.

College admissions know how to review school profiles so they can best understand your student's course choices/outcomes and rigor.

[Anonymous]

Also, if 9/10th were at a well-known rigorous private school, the admissions team will know that the school didn't allow APs for 9/10th. AOs usually know the schools they're reading pretty well.

[Anonymous]

My kid did 2 years on US and then 2 years at a boarding school in UK. Nothing was converted, the US school sent transcript to other and both were combined and submitted in a single document is now I understood it.

[Anonymous]

Some schools will not put other school's grades on their transcript - instead, they send in individual transcripts from each school the student attended. Depends on the school, so ask the college counselor how the current school reports past school grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most recent school should have all transcripts from the previous school and can send combined.

My kids were in a Bethesda MD HS and then a California HS - they requested everything, collated it and sent it on.

It happens all the time, it is standard proceedure.

I know its fairly common which is why I asked hoping others had experience to share.

It looks like the current school did convert the old school into the new one, but I'm wondering if the requirements/limitations of the first school will be lost.

They might be. My kids took honors Algebra in Bethesda but in their new school district there was no Honors, so when they put the final transcript together where "Algebra" is a required course for graduation, they actually removed the "honors" and the GPA bump was lost. It wasn't a big deal, ultimately. They didn't lose any of their other pre-CA bumps because those courses didn't have a similar conflict. The rationale was weak I felt but not worth arguing. One thing that did happen was some of the SSL hours that had transferred across officially, were lost in the final reckoning. If my kids had applied to colleges where SSL was a factor it would have mattered, but they did not and so it didn't.

You basically have to communicate well with both sets of admin and scour the paperwork for any mistakes like this, get them corrected early on, etc. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

You can also ask the counselor to address this in their letter - easily addressed in 1-2 sentences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can also ask the counselor to address this in their letter - easily addressed in 1-2 sentences.

The counselor's letter to whom? The colleges applied to or the new high school? Its actually not a counselor issue its a different part of the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does it work when student has attended more than one high school?

My DC will have 2 years at a rigorous private school and 2 years at a large public school. The private did not allow APs for 9&10 but the public offers several so my kid will look like they took less rigor than other classmates from the public school.

Will colleges get transcripts and school profiles from both high schools? I would like schools to see the context of both.

Also, the private only reported letter grades with +/- but the public reports numeric grades. They also calculate GPA very differently and now I'm not sure how to calculate GPA for comparison purposes.

When colleges read as school groups will they be able to identify that my kid didn't have all the same opportunities?

What's with the adjectives?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can also ask the counselor to address this in their letter - easily addressed in 1-2 sentences.

The counselor's letter to whom? The colleges applied to or the new high school? Its actually not a counselor issue its a different part of the administration.

Counselors letter to the college. Most colleges require it as part of the application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can also ask the counselor to address this in their letter - easily addressed in 1-2 sentences.

The counselor's letter to whom? The colleges applied to or the new high school? Its actually not a counselor issue its a different part of the administration.

Counselors letter to the college. Most colleges require it as part of the application.

Exactly. Depending on the schools your student is applying to, most require a letter from the counselor (on the Common App it's referred to as CR: Counselor Recommendation).

Also, if you have other issues with your student's transcript, you should orient yourself with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and your rights as a parent to "seek to amend non-substantive factual errors in the student’s education records."

[Anonymous]

It's a bit of a pain. But, as someone else said, the current counselor can explain this in a couple of sentences in the recommendation that he writes.

There IS a question where your kid can provide additional information, but I've heard that it's best to not overexplain. Definitely communicate clearly with the current counselor, though, to make sure he has all the material he needs.