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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One hs guidance counselor said that one college once required a student to RETAKE algebra over the summer before her freshman year at college because algebra was a prerequisite to entering that college and algebra wasn't on her hs school transcript (although Geometry, Algebra 2, Calc, etc were on her hs transcript).  I have no reason to doubt this crazy story, but that's the only explanation I've ever heard of requiring the MS grades to go on the HS transcript.  Seems to me like there's a dozen ways to do this better.  This topic came up a few weeks ago here.  It's too late for my kids, but I really think some of you with some future interests (kid in elementary and MS) should look into this and try to give parents/kids better options.  [/quote]

I find this hard to believe. Most kids in private school take algebra 1 in MS and it does not appear on the transcript. No one in my DDs HS class had to take alg 1 again and none of them had taken it in HS. [/quote]
It was one hs counselor who said that in ten years it mattered one time.  Everyone agrees that it's a crazy anomaly.  Also, I think MD and VA publics put the MS algebra on the HS transcript-- at least that's what I thought a lot of the fuss was about.  [/quote]

I've got a kid in MCPS who took alg 1 in private middle school so it won't be on her transcript.  And she doesn't have to take the HSA either.  So there is a chance she'd have to retake alg 1?  No one has mentioned this to us and we discussed the topic of alg 1 outside of MCPS quite specifically.  And this is at a school that sends a lot of kids to top colleges. [/quote]
I wouldn't worry about it.  I think if this story is true (more than likely it's probably a tale told to parents to keep them from asking guidance counselors policy questions) it was a total outlier.  Top colleges expect kids to have had Algebra before HS.  [/quote]

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