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[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]

My kid, now a freshman in college, had straight A's through middle school and high school, where he took lots of AP, DE, and IB classes (minus one B+ in HS).  He had 5 HS credits in MS, and considered whether to delete them from his transcript.  Deleting them would have improved his GPA (since the the middle school classes were not given the GPA bump).  In the end, he decided not to drop them, since the increase in GPA would have been very small, and he felt that seeing an additional 5 A's would have made the transcript look better. He finished with a 4.53 GPA, a 35 ACT score, and an IB Diploma, but did not get into any highly ranked schools (highest ranked school he got into was Wake Forest).  So I don't know whether he made the right choice on the transcript, though [b]I'm doubtful that it made much of a difference[/b].[/quote]

I'll bet your are correct. Only so many kids from a given high school are going to get accepted by a given elite university.  There are other kids in your child's HS who also had impressive stats, not to mention kids across the country who had the same or higher.  He's happy and successful....he made the "right" decision. Thing is, so many people believe there is only one "right" decision.  Life paths might be different, yes; but doesn't necessarily make a decision "wrong." [/quote]

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