<p>For S1, it sure would have been nice to not have these appear on the transcript. At schools that begin in 10th grade, do they go back and pick up the 9th grade scores from the Junior High School?</p>
<p>Are there that many high schools that start in 10th grade? I know this was more common many years ago (like back in the Dark Ages when DH went to school).</p>
<p>Besides, even at the 9-12 year schools, 8th grade classes are put on the HS transcript if they are used for HS graduation credit. </p>
<p>And I guess that is the ultimate question…do the courses taken in 9th grade count toward HS graduation? If so - then they belong on the transcript.</p>
<p>Right - Son took three HS classes in 8th grade. I sure wish they hadn’t been on the transcript, but there they were.</p>
<p>S1 will have 7th & 8th grade for some classes (foreign lang & math) on transcript b/c they were “high school” level.</p>
<p>I thought including 9th is the norm, but some schools (Princeton I believe) back it out & recalc GPA for 10th-12th only.</p>
<p>Everything I’ve been told & read states that 10th & 11th are the “focus” years for AdCom.</p>
<p>Ninth grade is part of high school – even if ninth graders are located in a building with younger students rather than older ones.</p>
<p>So it makes sense to include ninth grade marks on the student’s transcript.</p>
<p>One of my kids had grades on his HS transcript from 6th grade. The other had them beginning from 7th.</p>
<p>Ninth grade is HS, even if you’re still stuck in the MS building.</p>
<p>Isn’t Freshman/Soph/Jun/Sen the norm for high school? If your school is different, they probably use it to be consistent with the others.</p>
<p>I believe the UC system does not use freshman grades to compute GPA.</p>
<p>I’ve always found this anomaly to be a curious one…there are schools around here whre 9th grade is still middle school (in more ways than one…grade inflation, projects, extra credit etc)…and the grades are on the transcript…difficult to analyze vs. HS with 9-12…makes sense to do what Princeton, UMich do…eliminate 9th grade in evaluation…not many schools do this though…</p>
<p>Colleges like to see upward trends in grades. If the grades reflected in ninth grade classes aren’t that strong, but subsequent ones are, than the upward trend can be a good thing.</p>
<p>Regardless of where 9th grade is housed, the classes have been considered part of high school – at least where I live – for decades. My older brother attended a “junior high school” which had grades 7, 8, and 9 in it, back in the late 60s; after that, students moved on to a high school building. Ninth grade was, academically, part of high school, despite being in a different building (and usually miles away). I attended the same junior high school in the early 70s, and still, 9th grade there was part of high school. I didn’t hear about a place called a “middle school” until I was well into adulthood. My son attended a middle school; it houses only grades 7 and 8. </p>
<p>I happened to pick up a copy of his high school transcript today, and there are three courses on it which he took (or, in the case of algebra, didn’t take) before grade 9. They are all credited to 9th grade, so his transcript looks a little odd; for 9th grade, it appears he took Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 Trig, and also Latin 1 and Latin 2, in addition to other classes, for a total of 10 credits that year.</p>
<p>“Colleges like to see upward trends in grades. If the grades reflected in ninth grade classes aren’t that strong, but subsequent ones are, than the upward trend can be a good thing.”</p>
<p>Unless you live in Texas, where getting B’s in 8th grade can keep you from the top 10% and auto-admittance to the top universities.</p>
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<p>no joke!</p>
<p>I guess I’m not following this. Most colleges require 4 years of High School level English and Math, if not science, a foreign language, etc. If you don’t report the 9th grade stats, how do you prove you have taken the required # of HS level courses and if the assumption is you have taken HS level classes in Jr. High or Middle School, why wouldn’t the college want to see the grades?</p>
<p>In what would have been my kid’s school district had we not moved, the honors/AP level kids start high school math in 8th grade. A lot of people were upset to learn that this grade goes on the HS transcript and is figured into the GPA.</p>
<p>^That is what I don’t get. A high school level course gets reported regardless of when you actually took it. Why would someone be upset…you’re getting high school credit for it, therefore it goes on the high school transcript.</p>
<p>My son’s 8th grade Latin counted as a high school level course, I fully expect to see it on the transcript.</p>
<p>^^
I agree. If you’re getting HS credit for a course, then it needs to be on the transcript.</p>
<p>The bummer here is that even if one takes Algebra I in 6th grade, it does not count as honors and therefore doesn’t help the weighted GPA.</p>
<p>MS grades are reported on the transcript here as earned in MS.</p>
<p>In our district - Algebra I - whether taken in 8th grade or 9th grade - is not considered a pre-AP (honors) type class and gets no weighted GPA. Same for the first 2 years of any foreign language. Only the 3rd year and AP classes count for a weighted grade.</p>
<p>DS’s school counts only those courses taken while in HS toward the GPA and class rank. He took H. Geometry in 8th (doesn’t count), studied H. AlgebraII over the summer (doesn’t count), taking H. PreCalc for 9th. He can take AP Calc in 10th, and that’s the end of the line. I don’t know if they all appear on the transcript- would be funny if he could only get credit for 2 years of HS math because he took them too early.</p>