<p>Hello,
My son is HS junior this year. We moved recently and he had to change his school.
His previous school uses the following grading scale (A+ 99-100, A 94-98, B+ 90-93, B 84-89...).
He received several 92 and 93s in honors courses, Algebra I and II, Geometry, etc., which shown as B+ on his transcript.
His new school only has A 90-100, B 80-89... So, they translated these courses to B, which obviously lowered his GPA.
I talked to his new school counselor, but it did not help much.
As these are core courses, I really want to get the grades right.</p>
<p>Please advise where do I go from here.
Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter changed schools after freshman year. I requested about 15 official transcripts from her first school (sealed in envelopes). The school she transferred to had a policy of not putting any other school’s work on its transcripts, so when DD applied to colleges, her school included the transcripts that I had provided in the application packet.</p>
<p>All schools have different scales and there isn’t a thing that you can do about it. For example, DD’s new school would not weight her freshman year honors courses, but they would have weighted gifted/talented courses. The only problem was that the first school did not offer GT. In the end, it did not matter. We knew the differences going in and knew that that would mean she could not be her class valedictorian. She graduated number two. It did not make a bit of difference.</p>
<p>Thanks MD Mom. I’ll do that for his college admission next year.
However, there is also in-state scholarship offered, which is uses GPA directly from schools. I checked, and they won’t take transcripts from me.
It looks like, even with his current (artificial) gpa, he’ll get it. But, just to be on a safe side, I wanted to get his record right…</p>