Hi, when I was in middle school a received two B’s in high school courses. Since then, I have not received a B between 9th and 10th. How do you guys think colleges will view my Middle School Bs?
They will probably not care, at least not enough to impact your admission decision in any meaningful way.
Are we even sure they will see courses you took in middle school?
You may want to ask your high school GC about this. At our HS, you can get credit for HS level classes taken in middle school (usually these are math classes). But if you’re getting credit from the HS then it goes on your transcript, is counted in your GPA and therefore affects your class rank. So for colleges that care about class rank (not so much specific rank but are you in the top 5 or 10%), the B’s might indirectly affect you. But I agree that it shouldn’t be much, if any, impact.
They don’t see courses you have taken in middle school. They do not care about anything that happened in middle school or before.
The only exception is that if you did something amazing enough or pertinent enough before 9th grade that it merits mentioning in your essay.
They may. OP specifically referenced HS courses taken in MS. My HS listed them on the transcript without grades. Different schools will have different policies regarding how/if it appears on the transcript. Regardless, colleges likely will not care.
Interesting responses, thank you. I’m going to get my transcript printed just to see how the courses look. I took fundamental courses in middle school (Algebra I and Foreign Language). Hopefully, it doesn’t look strange that I earned B’s in those courses.
If they affect your class rank or GPA, id say get them erased if you can. I got B’s and C’s in high school classes taken in elementary/middle school and they dragged down my GPA + rank quite a bit so I deleted them. However, if they aren’t calculated into your GPA it doesn’t matter as much.
At least with my school, some middle school classes (algebra 2, geometry, first and second year languages) show up on our highschool transcript and count towards gpa/class rank. If this is the case, it still shouldn’t affect the OP’s gpa that much. Still, I’d imagine colleges would overlook those middle school B’s and focus on the OP’s 4.0 high school gpa.
Sweet, I was told that a lot of school allow you to recalculate your GPA like Berkeley and UCLA. I think at those schools my transcript poses less of a threat to admission (well I hope that’s the class). Thank everyone!
With indifference.
With UC’s, you recalculate the GPA. Other schools may of may not recalculate, but for the most part, you do not do the recalculation, so you never know what they are looking at.
UC has their own calculation of a to g classes taken in 10th and 11th. However Berkeley at least looks at all grades as well.