<p>ok, so I talked with my counselor and she told me that colleges know, at least for my school, that two individual term grades of a semester are averaged into a final semester grade, it is in favor of the higher grade (ex. A + B = A). But I am taking IB classes, which do not give out semester grade, because IB classes are year-long, unlike year-long AP that is split into 2 semester, each technically being its own course. </p>
<p>My 2nd term grades are worse than my first, but since colleges know how semester grades are averaged, will they take this into account?</p>
<p>IB English HL- A,B
IB Math HL-B,C (idk how this class is taught at your school, but it's insanely hard here)
IB Chemistry HL-A,B
IB History of Americas SL-B,A
IB Theory of Knowledge-A,A
AP Physics C-A,B (This class will show put into my transcript as an A)</p>
<p>Also, if you think about it, when college see midyear reports with all As, it's possible, that the student got all As the 1st term and all Bs the 2nd term. IF you average my grades, it'd be 5 As and 1 B (that looks great right?). Also since IB courses are year-long, I have another semester to do well; I just suffered through a rough term, but it should not have a monumental impact on my final performance.</p>
<p>Lastly, our county does not give out numerical grades: all As (90-100) aer the same, all Bs (80-89) are the same, etc.</p>
<p>Are you asking a question, or just venting? I am not sure how you expect that someone here can “help.” Your mid-term grades are what they are. At this point all you can do is submit them and work on your final term grades.</p>
<p>no i am asking a question. I only sound angry because no one has helped me in the past couple days</p>
<p>If I were an adcom, I wouldn’t average an A and B to an A. But I’m not an adcom.</p>
<p>sounds strange I know, but that’s just how it works, at least at my school. Actually, it may be on how much your teacher thinks of you, because and A and a B + teacher hates you could very well be a B. Luckily that has never happened to me</p>
<p>I don’t get the question either. </p>
<p>My school works the same way, your four marking period grades, plus the combined midterm and final give you 5 year grades, the average of those 5 is the only grade put on your transcript, so a kid who got 3 A’s and 2 B’s has the same transcript as one with 5 A’s, individual marking periods are only looked into when it involves class rank. </p>
<p>Anyway, colleges DO NOT know how your grades are determined, and do not know individual marking periods, only what your high school sends on your transcript. </p>
<p>So, if your high school sends a report that shows an A and a B they will judge you under students that have an A and an A, but they will notice that it is an IB class. Just like if you took an AP class and got a B, many colleges consider this more impressive than getting an A in a regular level class.</p>
<p>but that’s not the thing, IB classes don’t give out grades after 2 terms but only after the end of the whole year, so they aren’t averaged. So how would college look at them? AP and other courses are averaged after one semester, so college will only final grades on those classes. But based on how grades are averaged in my school (A+B=A, B+C=B, etc.), an A on an AP or other classes could have been and A for one term but a B for another.</p>
<p>my question is how to colleges look at midyear reports that are not final? My individual term grades look bad, but averaged together, they look good.</p>
<p>First of all how they’ll use your midterm report depends on the colleges. Next, colleges are completely familiar with the differences between an IB courseload and AP. Finally, IB courses have a projected score so even if it’s not final, it still forecasts.</p>
<p>PS: don’t go crazy trying to figure out how they’ll look at your grades. Focus on something *YOU *can control: your grades.</p>