<p>My child is applying early action to two schools. He presently on a trimester system and his first trimester grades will be available shortly after thanksgiving. Is it worth it to have his school send his first trimester grades in December or just wait until the January report that goes out to the colleges? His grades this trimester are likely to be very good and I expect we may get an early action decision by mid January. Thoughts?</p>
<p>If the Mid year report will help your child, I would say go for it!</p>
<p>I suspect it’s not necessary. My daughter has applied early action and her high school transcript was sent around the end of October (to make the Nov. 1 deadline). Her 1st quarter only just ended recently. I <em>believe</em> her high school will automatically send a mid-year grade report, but they will not send her 1st quarter grades.</p>
<p>Now, if your child is on an upward trend and you think that the trimester grades are needed to prove that the trend is good, it might help… But if they’re just showing consistency, then I wouldn’t bother.</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. Just ended my first semester and got straight A’s. I applied EA to BC, Villanova, Georgetown and Notre Dame. My GPA is excellent, but my ACT is average. I was wondering if sending in first semester grades would help my cause or just annoy the them.</p>
<p>You will not be punished for sending additonal grades. Thus, if you send them, the worst that will happen is that they will ignore them. The usual process for EA is that they rely on grades through junior year (although some actually do request mid-semester grades). The thing is that usual rule was created under the concept that the usual high school is on a two semester schedule and thus your first semester offical grades won’t come out until January or early February after the early action decision is made. They therefore don’t usally use mid-semester (quarter) grades in that situation because those are not official grades. However, if you are truly on a “tri-semester” system, meaning you have three official grading periods in the year all of which will show up on your final transcript, then I would say send them because there may be a possiblity the school will consider them.</p>