Combining GPA

Pre-College Issues Home Schooling and College
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Hello, thanks for taking the time.

I’ve been through quite a few schools during high school, and I was wondering how to combine my GPA. I will go in-depth below, but I will but a TL;DR at the end for convenience.

(middle school) 7/8 grade - H Alg 1, H Geo, HPhysical Science (B,B,A respectively)
(private school ) 9 - Physics, H English, H World History, H Alg 2, Spanish (A,A,A,A,B respectively)
(charter school + flvs) 10 - H Bio, H Chem, H English II, H Precalc, Spanish II (A,A,A,A,A)

(homeschool + flvs)11 - yet to come, but I will be taking 2 courses on FLVS (Eng III H + U.S History H) and doing 4 courses through homeschooling (AP Calculus AB, Act/Sat II prep, AP Physics 1, AP Bio 1)

In both the middle school and the charter school, GPA was calculated on the basis that A=4, B=3.
In the private school, GPA was calculated based on %.
On FLVS, they just give you a letter grade.

Therefore…
Year 9 - I have letter grades + percents
Year 10 - I have letter grades only (save bio from flvs)
Year 11 - I will have letter grades only (save 2 flvs classes)

How do I combine all of this into 1 comprehensive report?

I have my final charter school report card (from finishing Semester 1 of Grade 10, after which I started home school), and that ALLEGEDLY has my grade 8-10 GPA from all of the schools factored in, but that cant be accurate since they combined my grade 9 GPA that was based on % (93 = 3.6 or something like that) with their grade 10 GPA that is based on letters (90 = 4.0).

Can I throw all of these official reports in a folder and just make my own transcript with my parents, even for the years when I was in physics schools and was not homeschooling?

We can show colleges the folder for records/proof of my grades, but the GPA on them is different and all over the place. A bit worried about doing this as I doubt colleges will actually care to ask us for anything extra, and will just wait list/decline us if we don’t submit exactly what they want.

Or do I actually have to take the screwed up Grade 10, Semester 1 report (combined totally different GPAs, as my 9th grade GPA would have been much higher on their scale) and make it even more screwed up?

TL;DR: 9th grade private GPA based on %, 10th grade charter GPA based on letter grades. 10th grade charter combined the 2 years worth of GPA into 1 report, which is not accurate. Now homeschooling (11-12 grade) and wondering how to get a legal, accurate, and comprehensive report that will not scare colleges off due to the crazy mess that this is.

In a perfect world I would just list out the courses I took from Grade 7-10 on one list with the grades, write course descriptions for the classes I home schooled in Grade 11-12, and make a separate list for FLVS grades. Though the world isn’t perfect, so I am hoping that some of you folks might help guide me in the right direction.

I know that switching so many schools will lower chances, and I will apply accordingly (hoping to score a 31-32 on ACT and apply to 28-29 average ACT schools). However, right now I am more worried about how to present my grades appropriately to colleges.

Thanks a lot for reading this mess.

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I’m currently working on getting my cumulative GPA to apply to schools now, and right now I’m experimenting with a few different scales that I’ll share further down. Since you’re a homeschooled student, as it has been described to me, you/your parent ultimately decide how your GPA is calculated. If I were you, I would choose a scale, and just convert those grades onto that scale. Make sure to just note how you’re calculating your GPA so that colleges know.

Based on what you say you have available, you might be best off with the standard 4.0 unweighted, 5.0 weighted scale. That’s just 1, 2, 3, 4 for <=D, C, B, A, add .5 for an honor course and add 1 for an AP course. That’s the one that I’m most looking at right now. If you had percentages available, or letter grades as in A-, B+, C-, etc. then you could do the more specific scale where, for instance, an A- is worth 3.7 instead of 4.

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Thanks for the response.

I have no issue using the A=4.0 B=3.0 scale, just that I am not sure if I am allowed to.
I’ve been receiving official report grades from Grade 7 - Grade 10, and I don’t know if I can self report grades that I didn’t actually self study. There would be no issues if I was always a Home School student, but I just started. Universities might think that I am trying to somehow fake my GPA if I self report grades year 9/10 throughout which I did attend an actual school.

That’s why I asked - “Can I throw all of these official reports in a folder and just make my own transcript with my parents, even for the years when I was in physics schools and was not homeschooling?”

But I don’t know where exactly to find such info.

Nevertheless, thanks for trying to help

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Sorry for misunderstanding.

“Can I throw all of these official reports in a folder and just make my own transcript with my parents”

Yes. As a homeschool student myself, I have taken courses in a variety of different settings and I haven’t run into anyone yet who dislikes that it’s all consolidated into a single transcript.

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Sounds great! I guess I’ll just make an official looking document with all of the stats/grades on it.
Did you also send in proof of the classes you didn’t self study, or maybe your portfolio?

Regardless, glad to know that it shouldn’t be an issue!

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The last time I put together a transcript, it was when I was applying to a summer program, and I don’t think they actually required any “official” transcripts to go along with it. In your case, though, better safe than sorry. I did, however, attach some samples of the kind of coursework I was actually completing to prove that it was a “real” class. I’m pretty sure I attached a math worksheet, an essay I had written, and a lab report. From precalc, AP Lang, and AP Bio, respectively.