I had an unusual 4 years of high school. I went to a charter school freshman year, a public school (I’ll call it VHS) the first two months of sophomore year, then switched to homeschool for the rest of sophomore year and first semester of junior year, then an online school second semester of junior year and all senior year.
My graduating high school compiled my past schools’ grades onto my final transcript. They only entered 2 credits for my entire sophomore year with no letter grades assigned (they weren’t very friendly to homeschool students but that’s beside the point.)
They did not include my grades from my time at the public school, VHS, for those two months of sophomore year I attended. There’s no mention of the school on my transcript, it’s like I never went at all. They said it’s because I never received credits from them as I only went for a short time. But I took honors classes and had A’s there. So my questions are:
1)Should I include the grades I got from those two months when calculating my cumulative GPA?
2)Should I even send the transcript to colleges since it was such a short time I attended?
3)Was my graduating high school wrong for not including VHS on my transcript at all?
This is something you should address in the additional information section of the application and talk to your guidance counselor about. Also, if you include the grades from VHS and your online school doesn’t, you will be reporting 2 different GPAs to colleges.
The grades for those two months SHOULD have been included in your Home school grade for the semester since the semester would include that time. It’s always a good idea to send all transcripts. Send a note that your semester grade from that year includes the VHS grades. If it doesn’t then let the college decide how to weight the info.
Thanks for the reply. So my graduating high school’s counselor was incorrect when she told me that my VHS grades should not show up on my final transcript because I didn’t stay at VHS long enough to receive credits? If so, I suppose they can’t correct it now since I graduated. I’ll just send the note.
Does your current HS think you have enough credits to graduate?
Transcripts usually deal with semester or year long grades…probably why they didn’t add them.
I would definitely describe this on your "additional info’ part of the application.
Be consistent with your school’s GPA.
My daughter went to one school 9-10 grades with 0-100 grading. Then she went to another and did an IB Diploma for 11-12 grades which is 0-7. Never knew what her 4.0 scale GPA was…colleges figure it out. The only time there was an issue was for our State Flagship which auto-awards scholarships based on GPAs , but a quick email sorted that out. So send your transcript and the college will figure it out.