Does anyone know what happens to above level class grades from 8th if you start BS in 9th? If my son stayed here in public school, 3 of his current classes are HS level and will count towards his GPA in high school. I’m assuming a BS would not take these grades into their GPA? Of course I’m asking because the 8th grade senioritis is taking effect. Grades are still good, but I can tell he’s ready to get the heck out of middle school! If a B won’t transfer over, I’m not going to worry about it.
I can only speak to the two boarding schools where I’ve had experience as a mom, but neither of them included high school classes taken in middle school into their GPA.
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This may be school specific, but I’m unaware of any BS that includes 8th grade from another school in GPA calculation.
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This is what I’m hoping, thank you! I would rather him experience a slight failure in middle school than in high school. He is a perfectionist and will not appreciate a B, but he’s kind of getting bored and less enthusiastic about homework now that the end of middle school is coming. I will just let him experience it!
I don’t know of any boarding schools that include courses taken elsewhere in 8th grade in the GPA, and few include grades from other schools period. Policies on GPA and transcripts will typically be laid out in the student handbook (almost always available online) and/or the school profile put together for college admissions officers (also often available online, usually in the college advising section of a website).
So I wouldn’t sweat a B. But schools can and will rescind admissions offers for grades that seriously tank in the last semester, so he shouldn’t go off the cliff completely. It’s probably a good time to remind him that he’s going to have to be self-motivated and responsible for keeping himself on track at boarding school, even when the assignments are boring or he’s got more exciting things going on.
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Even at HS level - GPAs usually aren’t transferred across / merged. So moving into new school for 9th/10th (boarding / day / public) - you will have 2 GPAs (one from each school)
GPAs get merged when you go from public to public in same district since they have standardized protocols
Private schools do not usually count any MS classes in GPA since their protocols do not do that for their own students
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My kiddo spent 2 years at public HS, then went to a cyber charter HS for one year. The cyber charter merged the grades but standards were different and they forgot to give extra gpa weighting to an honors class (since fixed but the PS gpa point system was higher). She also did a class at another cyber one summer. Now she is a repeat Jr. at BS, they are not merging any previous grades into her GPA. She also did honors algebra in 8th grade, it is on no transcript. So for college applications, she could send the merged cyber transcript with their GPA calculation as well as her BS transcript. Or she could send her public school 9th-10th, her summer school one class, her cyber charter 11th, and her BS 11 and 12. LOL! Wondering how this scenario factors in to college applications.
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I was secretly very pleased when my youngest child got a B in high school. It showed her that she did not need to be perfect, life still went on, her parents still loved her, and her friends were still her friends. We went out to get ice cream.
We did not worry about the impact it might have had on university admissions, and in retrospect it does not seem to have had any impact at all.
Letting a child experience a B sounds like a good plan to me. I do not think that it is anything to worry about, particularly if the B’s are rare.
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If someone from Exeter would like to answer, how would high school credits from 8th and 9th grade transfer to PEA since the classes at Exeter don’t exactly match up with Honors or AP in a public school?
Short answer is they don’t. You’re starting off on a blank slate in that any credits received prior to PEA do not reduce the PEA credits you need to earn at Exeter based on your entering grade. Your past grades do not figure into your GPA. Your math and foreign language options are based on your placement tests, not past courses. You take the standard 10th grade English course, and your choice of 10th grade history. Your science option is the only one that will take until account your past science course.
But really, don’t worry until you are actually accepted.
Our experience transferring as a repeat Junior to a HADES school. Previous grades/GPA does not get incorporated into the BS GPA. It will remain as a separate transcript. They will look at your previous courses to determine which ones fulfill their requirements and what requirements are left if entering in higher grades. And most will test for math and language placement.
I won’t let him tank, nor do I think he would he allow himself. I’m trying to be hands-off this year in preparation for more independence at BS, but I also want to make sure I know he is on track in the final stretch.
I doubt he will be a straight A student in BS and that is totally fine with me!
I agree, I think a B would be great for him, actually. No, the world won’t end…and celebrating with ice cream sounds good to me!
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I went to a feeder middle school (yup, those exist), and pretty much everyone “fell off” during eighth grade spring. I wouldn’t worry about it too much; unless you’re going into the D-range, getting “bad” grades (like, a B when all you have been getting is As) won’t really make any difference—the school you will be attending accepted you for a reason, and it’ll take a lot for them to stop wanting you.
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