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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Related question (sorry to hijack): what about 8th grade courses?  Does it show all of the ones that are "high school level" (foreign language, algebra, computer science) or can you pick and choose which ones will show up on the high school transcript?[/quote]

I'm not sure if you can keep some and delete others. In general kids with a strong GPA will remove the classes they took in MS because admissions officers who see that you took French 2 in HS will be able to figure out that you must have taken French 1 before HS. [/quote]

Those classes will appear, yes. However, you can have [b]high school classes taken in middle school removed from the transcript and cumulative GPA calculation,[/b] if you wish. You cannot remove a high school course taken in high school.[/quote]

One caveat here, if the course had an associated SOL needed for graduation it has to stay on the transcript (unless there were later SOLs. This is mainly an issue for accelerated math. I don't recall all the specifics but when we discussed it with DS's counselor late in junior year she said he had to keep his geometry in 8th grade because of that. So, discuss it with the counselor sooner rather than later.[/quote]
You need a certain number of verified credits to graduate. (Verified credits are courses for which the kid took the associated SOL.) So, you can drop a MS course so long as you have other verified credits within that subject to meet graduation requirements. Best to ask your counselor.

Question for veteran parents. I believe the attraction for dropping MS courses that yield HS credit is that they don't generate honors bonuses for GPA calculations. Thus, say a kid has all As in MS and HS.  They would have a higher GPA in HS if they dropped the MS courses that yielded HS credits because their GPA would not be diluted with courses that don't convey a GPA bonus. For parents that have gone through this, is that right?[/quote]
Yes, exactly. A straight-A student who has taken AP and IB classes will have a higher weighted GPA if they get rid of the MS classes.[/quote]
Why don't they just fix this GPA anomaly so that kids don't have to jump through hoops deleting MS courses?[/quote]

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Too much focus on numbers. They should just see what classes a student took and what grade they got in them.[/quote]
That's one way to deal with it. The other way is to give high-school credit bearing courses the same GPA weighting whether they are taken in MS or HS. Give intensified MS courses (that are HS-credit bearing) the same higher weighting that HS intensified courses receive. Then kids wouldn't have to drop MS courses to enhance their GPA. That should be an easy fix. Why not do that?[/quote]

High school intensified classes are not weighted. HS-level MS intensified classes, therefore, are given the same weight.
I don't think classes should be dropped - especially if the student earned an A or B - just to boost a GPA. If nobody drops, everybody is evaluated on the same level. [/quote]

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