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8.  Review the various grade inputs that kids do.  Every college does it different - weighted grades ,classification as honors or AP or Pre-AP, number of AP, [b]semester or yearly classes[/b].  It is so easy to make a mistake if you aren't careful here.  Admissions will double check these, but will they catch an error before you've been put in a lower bucket because the computer didn't give you credit for a bunch of weighted courses?    So please double check.  
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Question about this from a parent of a HS freshman: Is it up to the college whether they want grades by semester or by year? Or is it up to the HS?[/quote]

They will probably ask you to input it in the way that your highschool recorded them for GPA purposes.  So probably semesters, but then they might also ask you - "how many of these courses got a grade bump at your school?  Or "how many of these courses were AP Courses".  And then, the correct answer might be "14" if you took 7 courses for 2 semesters.  You just have to read it carefully because they all ask it in different ways.  It is easy to say I took 7 AP Courses, but maybe the answer is you took 7 AP Courses for 2 semesters = 14.   (Numbers are all for example, not that someone is taking 7 AP)
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Np here learning. Can you explain what you mean or how to identify "courses that got a grade bump"?[/quote]

Not really - not trying to be unhelpful but each high school and college are specific.
What I'm trying to say is that some colleges will give you a grade bump for every AP you enter.  Some will give you grade bump for honors, sometimes it is .5 sometimes it is 1.0.  Sometimes, they will ask you if you got a grade bump for the course in high school.  It goes all over the map with what data colleges want.  You just have to read what they are asking for and answer the question carefully. [/quote]

"Grade bump" is confusing. This is referring to weighting. Some high schools weight AP and honors classes more heavily, so an A counts as a 4.5 or 5 in GPA calculations. But in my experience colleges more typically re-calculate the GPA to remove the weighting, not add it.[/quote]

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