<p>Hello, I am wondering what the protocol is for including credits or grades on your high school transcript for courses taken at community colleges or other institutions (online, for example). Would one be required to list all courses taken at any institution, or pick and choose the courses to include?</p>
<p>I would guess that if the credits were necessary for graduating from high school (for instance on online foreign language sequence) then you would need to include the grades. But what if a student just took various computer programming classes at a community college for fun during the high school years-- would these necessarily be part of the high school transcript?</p>
<p>Varies by high school, but generally you only list the credits for the high school courses on the high school transcript. Since the transcript is done by high school personnel, then you never see it (or add to it) anyway. All other credits (college, community college...etc) are requested and transferred by that college to the one your applying to. Again......you simply request the transfer of information.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind for credits above and beyond high school requirements, most schools accept them for advanced placement or other requirement (providing you passed the class), but they may not exactly give you a credit.</p>
<p>For example, if you took a first year college algebra class at a community college, Princeton University would allow you to enter into the next level of math, but would not give you credit for the community college course you took. The difference is slight, but in terms of actual hours credited on your college transcript (at Princeton) anything taken previous would not appear as credit hours for graduation.........it would simply "place" you into a more advanced class at Princeton.</p>
<p>This can be complicated. My son took 18 credits at state flagship U his senior year of high school (math and a language). He could have had them placed on his high school transcript simply by having a copy of the college transcript forwarded to his high school. He chose not to, because he didn't need any of the credits to graduate. As it turns out, the college he started at this fall has now awarded him all of the credits for those classes, but would not have done so if they had appeared on his high school transcript.</p>