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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do colleges account for this? Same high school may have two teachers teaching the same subject who grade very differently.[/quote]

bottom line is they do not account for it.
my Ds moved from Whitman where he was getting 100% in his 10th grade Honors English. We moved to CA where his teacher was giving him 91% and calling it a B because she had the latitude to define where A grades started and ended. I raised this as a query with the counselor who was befuddled and had no reply and then the principal told me according to law, CA teachers can do this at will.

so there's no accounting for this in my kid's end results, he was a straight A student with a B for 1 semester. the colleges don't know and don't care how he got that grade. [/quote]

[b]This is the kind of thing to put in that additional information section of the common application.[/b]

At the verry end and there’s a box asking if there’s anything else you wish to disclose or explain. Very specific grade in a class would make sense there.[/quote]

Yes if it had greater impact on him, his transcript etc. It doesn't. He still got an A grade at the end of the year and a bump for the honors. So it's not worth mentioning at all.[/quote]

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