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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The transcript is broke down by grade 7, 8, 9, 10, etc). For grades 6-8 it only lists classes that are meeting a HS requirement. The layout of the middle school and high school grades is identical and in order of grade (eg if your first class you took for HS credit was in sixth grade, the sixth grade section is the first section listed on the transcript).

Everything is identical in appearance to the HS grades except the sections for MS grades are smaller because there are less relevant classes to list.[/quote]

The above is correct for transcripts. It very clearly shows Grade 6, 7, and 8 courses in their own sections, and it lists the MS school name as well as the academic year each grade corresponds with. Then, immediately below are the sections for Grade 9, 10, 11, and 12, using the same format, only there are many more lines in each section because every class is a HS class. [/quote]

Okay, thanks.  So the handful of HS-credit middle school grades are the very first thing the admissions officers see on the transcript?    That's kind of nerve-wracking... feels like it would be hard for them to ignore Bs and Cs there even if they claim that middle school grades don't matter to them. [/quote]

Most colleges recalculate GPAs themselves.  Most do not consider any courses taken in MS and also do not consider things like PE, art or other non-academic electives.  Most do not weight grades.  Many have a different "score" for rigor where the difficulty of classes is taken into account.

Some admissions officers see the actual transcript, others have students report using STAR or something different where they pull the data they are interested in and have each student's file look more consistent.  High volume schools do not have the time to comb through the files of kids from thousands of different high schools to find the information they are interested in, instead they use something to assimilate the information so that it's in the same place for each student being considered.
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[b]Do folks know what UMCP does on this? [/b][/quote]

This is the important question - what do colleges do with this info in the admissions process? Most colleges take the unweighted grades and apply their own internal weighting and scoring system. They usually could care less what the high school’s GPA calculation is. If you are concerned about this, once you confirm that the grades go on the transcript, you should contact some colleges and see if they factor those grades into their analysis. Hopefully they will tell you![/quote]

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