I am not sure whether I should push my kid’s high school to include a letter certifying her GPA…or whether there is any other option.
Kid changed school in senior year and is currently in a different school for PG, hence she has attended 3 different HS schools. Her PG school will be sending the transcripts for all the schools. I noticed the transcript for her senior year does not include GPA on the transcript.
She has As, B+, but then I can’t really tell what her GPA for her senior is.
questions
a. Do schools normally send separate transcripts to colleges?
b. Is it necessary to calculate a combined GPA for all four years? Do I leave to the college to do it? Her grade 9 to 11 GPA was 3.0, but if she were able to combine her senior level GPA, it will be much higher, hence I was hoping to be able to highlight it…but given she just started with her current school for PG, her current school counselor will not be able to opin on her previous GPA.
c. Do I ask her school for her senior year to write a letter certifying her GPA? They told me they would take one page from her student handbook which shows the weight for each grade. But why would a college just take one page print out from me to do grade calculation?
Our school did not calculate GPA. It only sent grades. This meant that if a college didn’t want to include a grade for orchestra or if it wanted to discount Engish grades for a foreign student who wanted to study math, it could. I don’t think there is anything out there that requires you or your school to calculate, especially given that some schools weight and others, like ours did not. If it’s a PG year, I would guess that your CC knows the answer to this.
Most college and university admissions offices will recalculate GPA for all applicants using their own weighting formula. Otherwise they are comparing apples and oranges. Both the current and former schools, as well as your daughter, should disclose GPAs where asked for in her applications.
Was your daughter only at that senior year school for one year? Her senior year?
Our HS does NOT provide GPAs for students who have only been enrolled at the school for one year. And the HS does not use grades from a different school to compute GPA.
That could be the reason you don’t see a GPA on your kid’s transcript.
I wouldn’t worry. The college admissions officers will figure it out and as noted above many schools recalculate GPA with their own formula. Just be sure colleges get the transcripts from all of the high schools.
My daughter went to one school 9-10 grades with 0-100 grading. Then she went to another and did an IB Diploma for 11-12 grades which is 0-7. Never knew what her 4.0 scale GPA was…colleges figure it out. The only time there was an issue was for our State Flagship which awards scholarships based on GPAs , but when none was offered, a quick email sorted that out. So send your transcript and the college will figure it out.
“Do schools normally send separate transcripts to colleges?” Every reasonable college I can think of requires transcript from the high school(s) attended. Includes PG, if that’s academic.
Not all high schools have gpa on the transcript itself. But the Common App School Report has a line for this. Usually the GC fills this out.
Some hs will incorporate the courses and grades from a prior hs, show one master transcript. Some won’t. Some include prior grades in their gpa calc, some don’t, especially when a kid only attended one year. A lot of this is based on school or district policy. Can’t necessarily move this mountain. I don’t see how a counselor from one hs, attended for one year, can “certify” her full four years.
Sounds like the hs for the senor year will send the 9-11 transcript as-is. You could ask the 9-11 GC to send a School Report, which would include that gpa.
I don’t know where this idea comes from that all/most colleges specifically recalculate. They look at the transcript(s) and the info provided.