<p>Hello, I was home schooled for my ninth grade year. My mother didn't trust my neighborhood. When I went to my local high school, I received high grades and, I took AP and honors. My question is, when I was homeschooled, I received 4.0s for 4 quarters. My mother and online program graded my work. When I finished my work, I would write books, or go to the library do something extra curricular.</p>
<p>My question is, do I use my 9th grade GPA in combination with my high school? If you only count my sophmore and junior year in high school, I have around a 3.7/4.0 but with my 9th grade grades combined, I'd have around a 3.8/4.1. Would colleges look at this? I have the classes and work if they need to see it. </p>
<p>You wouldn’t “combine” your GPA - I <em>believe</em> you would have two separate GPA’s and transcripts. Same thing if you took college courses - you would have distinct college and HS GPA’s.</p>
<p>It depends on how you want to do it. In my son’s case he had homeschool grades, grades from classes he took at the high school, and grades from classes he took at the local college (as part of his high school years.) I offered two GPAs on his application. One was a combined GAP of all work over those 4 years. I also gave his GPA combining only his classes from the high school and the college, leaving out the homeschool grades.</p>
<p>There wasn’t much difference between them. I reported this on the Homeschool Supplement of the Common Application in the space provided for explaining your grading scale, in this way:</p>
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<p>[student’s name]'s GPA<br>
Unweighted on a 4.0 scale:
Including homeschool grades - 3.99, excluding homeschool grades - 3.98</p>
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<p>I figured that way they could take or leave the homeschool grades, but at least the information was provided. I also had official transcripts sent from the high school and the local college, and they had their own separate GPAs listed on the transcripts, but I didn’t really deal with listing his GPA from each place. I provided combined GPAs because, from my perspective, that’s what reflected the total picture of his high school/homeschool/college prep years.</p>