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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t “Advanced Level” trump “Honors” anyway? Most of my kid’s magnet classes are “advanced” rather than honors.[/quote]

Whether it does or doesn’t (and I don’t think it does in this context at my kids’ hs, I think it is just the equivalent of french 5 honors), no one (i.e., college admissions) would understand that when [b]no other courses on the transcript are listed as “advanced level.”[/b] Meaning, as my kids’ hs there are lots of honors and AP classes but no advanced, with the exception of french/spanish 5. So it stands out that this one class isn’t being taken as honors. [/quote]

AP and IB classes are also Advanced Level.
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This is true. Just scroll through the HS course bulletin and look in the Course Info column. Every course with "(AL)" there is Advanced Level, and there are many.

[url]http://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/publications/HSCourseBulletin2024.pdf[/url][/quote]

I don’t care what the course bulletin says. I know in practice that French/Spanish 5 is basically the same as honors and gets the same weighting as honors. I am talking about the transcript, which is what colleges see. The transcript says AP or honors but does not for French/Spanish 5. I do not understand why mcps doesn’t label french/spanish 5 as honors so it doesn’t stick out on the transcript and look like the kid levelled down in world language near the end of high school. [/quote]

The complaint you have also allows to all the advanced level courses such as magnet courses. It’s unfounded. They are ADVANCED LEVEL courses. Colleges understand this for magnet classes and they understand it for IB and I’m sure they can understand it for foreign languages. It’s not that hard![/quote]

Most kids at mcps high schools are not at magnet or IB. My kids’ hs only has honors and AP, so the one designation off that formst for french/spanish 5 looks “off.”[/quote]

According to the Whitman school profile linked earlier, "Honors, Advanced Placement and Advanced Level courses are identified on student transcripts as HON and ADV."[/quote]

Exactly. But PP won’t let her complaint drop no matter how much evidence is shared that it’s a non issue. Advanced is above honors.[/quote]

That is because PP (me) saw her two kids’ transcripts and know how it looked. [/quote]

How do you see their transcripts?[/quote]

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