<p>Gratefully my state (Wisconsin) allows public high school juniors and seniors to attend college courses during the school year at the public districts' expense under what's known as Youth Options, and I've capitalised upon this opportunity this year as a junior by attending Calculus II and III at the local UW College in my town. When I received my high school schedule, however, I noticed my college course listed under 'Youth Options'. I thought "Fair enough; it's not actually an official high school course here, so it isn't really able to be placed in my schedule properly."</p>
<p>Despite this, I'm concerned that my course will show up like that on my transcript. Now, because these courses are replacing high school math courses, which I've exhausted, I'm worried that colleges would note an "absence" in math for the last two years of high school, because I doubt colleges would be looking at my soon-to-be college transcript until I'm applying for credit for certain classes. Would this affect the way colleges look at my high school transcript and cause colleges to see "missing" math courses in junior and senior year?</p>
<p>I know I shouldn't be worrying about this now - I haven't even entered junior year yet - but all your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I’m assuming that these math courses gave you college credit and HS credit, correct? If that is the case, I believe, though I could be mistaken, that you will need to send transcripts from the schools you took the class(es) at to the colleges to which you plan on applying. Then they will see the correlation b/w what your HS transcript says and the math classes you took.</p>
<p>Right; these courses in fact offer me more high school credit than it would if I were to take a high school course - I believe 1.25 credits per semester instead of the .5 at high school, in addition to the 5 college credits per course. I was thinking something of the same solution, but I was wondering if these colleges would take that into account in the admissions process. I suppose from what you are saying that they would, so thank you for the advice!</p>
<p>They will want to see records of any college courses taken while in high school. If transcripts are required, send the college transcripts as well as high school transcripts. If self-reported courses and grades are used (to be verified on matriculation), include the college courses and grades. You may want to explain that “Youth Options” on your high school transcript is a placeholder for a college course taken while in high school.</p>
<p>If you exhausted your high school math courses, that presumably means you took calculus, or at least precalculus if your high school did not offer calculus. Even without considering the college math courses, that is still typically considered “four years of high school math”.</p>
<p>I took AP Calculus AB (the equivalent of Calculus I) as the last available course in high school, and I got a 5 on the test, which made me eligible to take Calculus II at the college here. You’re right that I’ll have to send in both transcripts or self-report both sets of grades. I never thought of the solution of explaining what the “Youth Options” placeholder really means, and I never considered the “four years of high school math” presumption, which would be correct (even including the officially recorded “high school” math courses I took in junior high). Thanks for your advice!</p>
<p>Call the registrar at your high school. Your college courses will probably be included on your final High School transcript but the registrar will be able to tell you for sure.</p>
<p>Originally I had spoken to the academic counselor at my high school who coordinates all the Youth Options students and she had said this was the solution to my original problem of being placed in an impossible study hall during the hours of my college lecture, so I doubt my school is going to go any further than that, nor would they create a new class just to place on my transcript.</p>
<p>I’m probably just going to go with the advice of @ucbalumnus and just send all the paperwork for both schools in at the time of application and explain the “placeholder”. It probably isn’t a big deal yet, anyway; I’m only going into junior year.</p>