<p>Hi, this is my first post here and I'm filling out the application for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have a few questions about self-reporting high school grades in the application.</p>
<p>The instructions say "Do not average grades. If your transcript shows grades for 2 semesters, 3 trimesters, or 4 quarters for each class, list each grade separately; do not list a final grade." On my transcript, a grade is shown for each semester of a course taken. When self-reporting, you fill out a course you took as it appears on your transcript and the grade you got in that class is a subfield of the course. The following term options apply to me: 1st Semester, 2nd Semester, and All Year, but All Year only lets you put in one grade. Does this mean that I should enter two duplicate courses for each year long class I've taken and only change the term and grade field for each? I think that's what it wants me to do, but I just wanted to be sure I wasn't being redudant.</p>
<p>Also, it has an option to report grades for classes taken before high school. I took Spanish I, Algebra I, and Geometry in middle school, but these classes aren't on my transcript and I don't remember the exact grades I got in them. If I omit them, will this count against me, or will they just assume I took them since I took Spanish II and Algebra II freshman year?</p>
<p>Go here for some answers to FAQs on the SRAR <a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/faq/srar.html[/url]”>http://admissions.illinois.edu/faq/srar.html</a>. As to reporting pre-high school courses, you need to do so if you want them to use those courses toward the count of needed years of a subject for admission; they will not “make assumptions” for that count. You can find out your grades in junior high by contacting your junior high and request it send you a transcript.</p>
<p>Not sure of question on semester and year grades. If you mean you took a year long course like English 3 and got a grade at the end of each semester then you report the course for each semester and semester grade. If you mean you got a grade for each semester and then also got a grade for the entire year, then you will need to create a third listing for the entire year grade.</p>
<p>What we did is to choose “All Year” and report as one course if the grade is the same for both semester. When the grades are different for the 2 semesters, we have it duplicated and choose semester 1 for one grade and semester 2 for the other grade.</p>
<p>DS put it in by semester, just as listed on his transcript. Maybe it’s overkill but it did say exactly as it appears, so he did it abbreviations and all.</p>
<p>^ That should be the most appropriate way. Anyway, they don’t want the transcript until you are admitted. Then they will match your application with the transcript.</p>