<p>My high school offers a block schedule - which consists of 4 classes for each semester.
so you'd take a total of 8 classes a year.</p>
<p>We get 2 grades per each class on our transcript- 1 grade from first 9 weeks, the other grade in second 9 weeks; for example,</p>
<p>AP statistics: 94, 84
AP biology: 86, 90</p>
<p>and so on..</p>
<p>When we calculate our GPA, it seems like we calculate it separately.
Like, an 94 in first 9 weeks is equivalent to 4.0 GPA, an 85 in second 9 weeks is equivalent to 3.0 GPA ; therefore -> 3.5 GPA average.</p>
<p>I didn't notice this until i found out i'm transferring to different high school in different state, the high school i'm moving to takes the AVERAGE of 2 grades i get.</p>
<p>So... on their high school transcript, it would appear as
in AP statistics, (94 + 84) /2 is an 89 -> 3.0 GPA
in AP biology, (86 + 90) /2 is an 88. -> 3.0 GPA</p>
<p>Basically, i lost 0.5 point for my GPA because they'd take the GPA from an average of 2 grades i received in my high school.</p>
<p>Do most high schools offer 1 total grade per each class and average the GPA from 1 total grade? or do some divide the grade and calculate their GPA separately like my high school?</p>
<p>How do colleges consider this factor?</p>
<p>Your new high school sounds like it calculates GPA on a semester system, which is how most schools do it. Thus, since it’s the semester grade that counts toward your GPA, they’re averaging your quarter grades to get your semester grade.</p>
<p>However, what they’re doing is utterly illogical if your second quarter grade already includes your first quarter grade. Thus, if the 84 includes everything that was included in the 94, averaging the 94 and the 84 results in a number that’s not you semester grade. Your semester grade is an 84. However, if you started from a fresh slate each quarter, averaging your quarter grades makes sense.</p>
<p>Different high schools do it differently, but most I have heard of give a nine-week grade only as information so parents know how their children are doing, and don’t count it in any separate way.
Different colleges calculate GPAs differently. Some ignore what high schools say and do their own calculations based on 18-week grades, with some of those colleges adding points for honors or AP classes and some not adding them.</p>
<p>To: RedSeven</p>
<p>Our second quarter grade does not include our first quarter grade. </p>
<p>So that means most colleges would take the average of 2 grades in each class AND THEN calculate the GPA?</p>
<p>That’s gonna cause my GPA to drop a whole bunch…</p>
<p>To: beolein</p>
<p>So they would actually take the average of each class for sure?
and do most high schools normally have ONE grade per each class?</p>
<p>You asked whether they would actually take the average of each class for sure. My answer still stands: Different ones do it differently.
You asked whether most high schools normally have one grade per class. My answer still stands: Different ones do it differently.
Your best bet is to look on web sites of potential colleges and/or ask them.</p>
<p>Personally, the only method I have ever seen used is the one you describe in the school you are transferring to. </p>
<p>But… I am confused as to what you are describing. Is your AP Stat course only 1 semester? If it is, because of a 4x4 schedule (or whatever it is called in your area), then there would be a GPA calculation. If it is a year long course then I can’t imagine your school calculating your GPA at the end of the first semester. They would do it at the end of the year. </p>
<p>Now, that would still raise the question as to what method they used. In your 94 and 84 example, lets assume the next 2 quarters were another 94 and 84. Are you saying that in your current school they would calculate your GPA by taking a 4.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 3.0 and getting a 3.5? In every system I have ever run across from HS to college, that would be a 89, and whatever grade that is (eg B+ and 3.7, or B and 3.0, or whatever your system uses).</p>
<p>My school offers a block schedule -> you take each course in 18 weeks (1 semester), and it consists of 1st 9 weeks, and 2nd 9 weeks.( There’s no 3rd or 4th, it just ends at 2nd 9 weeks, and new semester starts)</p>
<p>You can take 4 classes each semester, and the new 2nd semester starts after the first 18 weeks (1st semester).</p>
<p>What i meant to say was that I basically got an 94 in 1st 9 weeks, and an 84 in 2nd 9 weeks, and the course ends. Then, new semester with new classes starts. </p>
<p>My school does not average these 2 grades that you get in each course, they just leave it as 2 separate grades on the transcript. So, i may get a disadvantage if i transfer into school that averages these 2 grades into 1.</p>
<p>Some people said some colleges don’t look at the average; instead, they look at each semester grade and then calculate the GPA.</p>
<p>Some people said some colleges look at the final average in each class.</p>
<p>Idk what to do… haha</p>
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<p>Are you sure? I have never heard of a school not giving a final grade in a subject. Remember, a transcript is different than a report card (even then I would expect your report card to have a grade for the course)</p>
<p>Yeah, we have 2 grades for each class…
Which gives me a disadvantage when it’s actually averaged, and my GPA is calculated from there.
But I’ve researched and stuff, some colleges look for your progress in each semester, some colleges just look at your final grade. SO… I’m guessing i just have to deal with the change…</p>