Hi,
Need a bit of advice with my situation.
I am a Sophomore in a highly competitive public high school with quite a bit of workload. I have also enrolled in a reputed online high school in my freshman year and taking a single course there in addition to my course load at public HS.
I joined an online high school for course content and was not planning on submitting the transcripts from online HS in my college applications. But recently I was told by a counsellor that I am obligated to disclose/submit all courses done during my HS years to colleges. Is this true? Is there any downside to not submitting the transcripts?
I will be applying to UCs (California) and to some private colleges when time comes.
Due to course load at local HS, I am planning to drop this year’s course from online HS and repeat the course at my public HS in next 2 years.
Thanks.
If taken for credit, yes.
At best, the college will consider your application incomplete and reject you. At worst, they will think you are being dishonest and reject you. Even if they accept you, the college reserves the right to do anything from rescinding an offer to revoking a degree. So save yourself the aggravation and submit the transcript when the time comes.
Yes, you have to send the transcript. It is OK if it has just that one W on it. If anyone would ever ask what happened, you can just tell the truth which is that you were a bit over-ambitious in what you could get done, and now you know better.
Thank you all for replying. I want to add some more information I am plannig to re-take the courses I have done in online HS in Public HS in my 11th and 12th. For the 2 Fall semisters(Freshman and Sophmore) I took the grade and did not take Pass/No Pass option in online HS. So my grades are going to show up in my online HS transcript. If I submit this online HS transcript along with my Public HS transcript will be bring my over all GPA down?
It is what it is. Whether a college will look at both grades, or just the later grade, is up to the college; there is no blanket answer. If you passed the online course, unless you passed with a D, I’d suggest just moving on. The GPA impact is not likely to be meaningful.
UCs use self-reported courses and grades on application, verified by transcripts if you matriculate.
For frosh admission to UCs, you must self-report all high school and college courses taken at all high schools and colleges when you apply. If you matriculate, you must send all high school and college transcripts from all high schools and colleges that you attended.
UCs recalculate GPA in a specific way, described at the following:
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/gpa-requirement/index.html
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html
If you repeat courses, see http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/q-and-a/repeating/index.html .
Non-UC colleges may have different policies. But, in general, you must report and send transcripts for all high schools and colleges attended whenever such things are requested by a college that you apply to.