<p>Someone just told my son he was supposed to list middle school courses on his application if they were high-school level (ie math and language). He has already submitted his application, so we can't check the instructions. He thought that was only if the middle school course is listed on the transcript. Can someone check the specific online instructions and tell me?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I submitted my app already so I don’t know what the wording is in the instructions, but for example I started high school in Spanish 2 because I took Spanish 1 in middle school, so I did list Spanish 1 in my application. But even though I took Algebra 1 in middle school, I didn’t list it because I met their math requirement with only my four years of h.s. math classes. I’d think that if your son satisfied their entry requirements with only the h.s. courses, it’s not going to hurt him to have not listed everything.</p>
<p>Thanks. I hope it’s okay. Like you, my son started Spanish 2 in high school. I’m hoping they can figure out that he has completed 3 years of Spanish-just by looking at the names of the courses.</p>
<p>mommeleh: You should call to the admissions people just to check.</p>
<p>Personally, I finished Alg 1/Geometry/Alg 2 in middle school and never wrote anything about those classes in my application. Admissions can probably figure it out, but call them to be on the safer side. 
They might be able to just make a note of it on his application if needed.</p>
<p>My daughter didn’t list Algebra and Chinese that she took in 8th grade because the way the application reads is that you only list them if you get high school credit for them. My daughter’s school does not give high school credit for classes taken in middle school. I think the university will be able to figure out that my daughter took Algebra in 8th grade if she started to take Honors Geometry Freshman year and that she took Chinese I in 8th grade if she started taking Chinese II her Freshman year. I think you are also right that you are only supposed to list middle school course that will be listed on the high school transcript.</p>
<p>Thanks, speedsolver and LadyHam. Although my obsessive-compulsive self would like to call admissions, we already had a separate issue for which we needed to contact them, and I don’t want to get a reputation for bugging them. I think we will just leave it as is.</p>
<p>chances are you won’t get a reputation. they probably get thousands of e-mails a day, so they don’t remember every one.</p>
<p>Yeah! Just call in and say “I have two questions / things I need to talk about!” and they’ll be pretty chill about it. Just don’t call in every 5 minutes for a month :P</p>
<p>UW does not count any coursework taken during middle school, per se. For every subject but math and foreign language, the UW counts the College Academic Distribution Requirements (CADRs, [College</a> Academic Distribution Requirements (CADR) | University of Washington](<a href=“http://admit.washington.edu/Admission/Freshmen/CADR]College”>http://admit.washington.edu/Admission/Freshmen/CADR)), according to the number of years the subject was actually studied during high school. However, for math and foreign language, CADRs are evaluated according to the level of mastery rather than the number of years studied. Therefore, UW does indirectly count these subjects studied in middle school at the high school level, but only on the basis of study at a higher level of the same subject during high school. So it makes no difference whether middle school courses appear on your high school transcript, or if they are entered on the UW app, as long as you have math and foreign language at the high school level on both.</p>
<p>For example, if you have Pre-Calculus in 9th grade and no other math, UW will give you credit for 4 years of math. OTOH, if you have three years of high school Spanish in middle school and none in high school, then sorry, you are out of luck, no foreign language credit. If you have AP US History in 8th grade, then sorry, no credit.</p>
<p>UW will do its own GPA calculation, regardless of how your high school calculates GPA. I’m not 100% sure of this, but I don’t believe UW’s GPA calculation will include middle school coursework even in math and foreign language. So the middle school coursework gives years of study credits in this case but not GPA. You can put middle school math and foreign language courses and grades on your UW app if you want to, but I don’t think it will make a difference either way.</p>
<p>Thank you for your very detailed response. Since my son achieved through third year of foreign language and will have exceeded the math requirements, I’m going to presume they can infer that he took the lower level courses in middle school.</p>