How do colleges look at these - on a yearlong average basis or for each marking period? I'm a parent of a Mont Co middle schooler and don't know the drill yet. If a kid has an A if you average it over the year but one quarter was a B, do colleges see that as an A?

Yes. Also, if your child were to have a B on their transcript, they would still go to college. I think some parents actually have A- and B+ grades earned in middle school expunged from their snowflakes' records.

My sense is that schools that look at transcripts would seriously discount MS grades (it is hard to imagine any school would think it appropriate to base any part of college admission on what a student did in 7th grade) but for the larger schools that are more quantitative in their decisions, the grades would be factored in like any other grade.

My DS wants to take latin, but is not offered in middle school. Is the only choice to wait until HS? Should he take another language in middle school, like Spanish. He is currently in 6th.

Do colleges really pay attention to these? I've been assuming they see it's MS and discount accordingly.

In some Middle School they do 1a over the whole year and in some they do both 1a and 1b

Thank you very much!

Anonymous wrote:Only one final grade per course.

Right, but courses are broken by semesters, ie, Spanish I A/B.

PP is correct, they will only see the semester final grades.

Only one final grade per course.

It's by semester. They see 2 grades - one for each semester.

How do colleges look at these - on a yearlong average basis or for each marking period? I'm a parent of a Mont Co middle schooler and don't know the drill yet. If a kid has an A if you average it over the year but one quarter was a B, do colleges see that as an A?