You will be sending both schools' transcripts because adcoms recalculate GPA anyway.

Won't both transcripts be sent to where he is applying and they'll see both GPAs and course selections?

We had to move last year between DS's freshman and sophomore years. We turned in his records, including his report card, to his new guidance counselor and haven't really thought much about it. Now we are thinking that his freshman grades might not be included in his overall GPA. I went looking on College Confidential and saw another parent refer to the same issue. Her current senior attended two schools and did much better at the first one than the second one. She said the GPAs did not combine for an overall average.

DS's freshman grades were 3.9 uw and 4.1 w. This year, he's doing ok, but it's a more academically-focused class, so his term 1 grades were 3.7 uw and 3.9 w. We're hoping for upward momentum since he had to get through the new kid thing during the first quarter.

Has anyone experienced this? How does it really work out in real life?