<p>What exactly goes on the transcript. IS it just GPA and the final grades of each year or are final exams/midterms and each semester/marking period grade included?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>depends. maybe some schools put extra grades like that, but i mine doesn't. what grade are in? i guess you'll find out soon enough anyways, being as how it is summer and all.</p>
<p>My school puts semester averages for all 4 years, and final GPA + class rank.</p>
<p>Ask your GC for a copy. Mine has class rank, GPA for each year, Final GPA, and SAT scores.</p>
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<p>This is a great question to ask your school counselor early in your high school career because the answer can vary from school to school.</p>
<p>One key thing to find out: Will test scores (SATs, ACTs, AP results) be on your transcript? </p>
<p>Often students apply to test-optional colleges and choose not to submit their standardized test results. BUT ... if these results are on the transcript, admission committees are likely to view them anyway. Even if the admission folks aren't officially using the test scores, it's possible that they may be influenced by seeing them, especially if these scores are well below the college's norm. </p>
<p>So ... forewarned is forearmed. Find out what college admission officials will fnd on your transcript. And, if the test scores are there and you don't want them to be, talk to your counselor about making copies of your transcript that are score-free.</p>
<p>Does most school have midterm/final grades from each class on the transcipt?</p>
<p>If yes, I'm screwed.</p>
<p>When you say "midterm/final grades," I'm not sure if you mean the actual class grades or your grades on the midterm and final exams</p>
<p>In most cases, the midterm and final class grades are on the transcript, and the exam grades may or may not be, too, depending on school policy.</p>
<p>But if you're worried because you had a lousy midterm grade and then pulled it up before you got your final grade, then relax. Admission officials can be pretty forgiving when they see that a student has made an effort to pick up some steam after a slow and shabby start.</p>
<p>You mean just do good during my Junior year right?</p>
<p>Yeah, well I will try my best.</p>
<p>ART OF MIND TWENTY-ONE:</p>
<p>CHILL. YOUR LIFE IS NOT OVER. </p>
<p>Quit worrying about some B's or C's that you got this year!</p>
<p>Most college admission officials are quick to notice when a student has what they call a "rising record." They like to see grades that improve each year (unless, of course, there's no room for improvement in the first place). So even students who do poorly in 9th and 10th grade can impress the admission folks by doing well in 11th and 12th.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the admission staff can be understanding if grades dip a bit when a student starts to take more demanding classes. In other words, if an applicant has almost all A's through sophomore year and then takes several AP's and gets more B's (or even a C) as a junior, then admission committees will cut some slack for the more challenging choices.</p>
<p>It's also a common misconception that 11th grade is the year that "counts" the most. The first semester of senior year is critically important, too. Admission committees will pay close attention to that, and--for Early Decision or Early Action candidates--it can be the first marking period (usually a quarter, sometimes a trimester) of 12th grade that's really important.</p>
<p>ask your GC for a copy. i was surprised to find out my school sends each and every "report card grade"-individual terms, midterms, etc, etc AND SAT/ACT/Regents</p>
<p>^ Thats sucks. Kids at my school, including me, can play the system by getting B's the first nine weeks, but then pulling the up to A's for the Final grades, which are the only ones factored into one's GPA.</p>
<p>^Same thing at our school...its almost like "lets see how well we can do to slack off the rest of the year" or "slack off and then do well." Consistency is a lost art.</p>
<p>As I said before, "Forewarned is forearmed." Ask your counselor (nicely, of course) to show you a copy of your transcript or at least ask what information it includes. You could be surprised by what's on there, and, in some cases, you may be able to make changes (well, don't count on changing your grades :p)</p>
<p>For instance, occasionally transcripts can include a list of everywhere your records have been sent. Even if this notation is for the benefit of the school guidance staff, college admission officials can also learn where else you're applying, and this may not be information you choose to share.</p>
<p>well my transcript had all my grades from the begining of elementary school. It was kind of funny. I have all kinds of S's and smiley faces and stuff on my tanscript as grades for the first few years of school. It also had my absences and stickers with my test scores on them. But thats at a public high school in Mississippi, so it could be completely different from your school.</p>
<p>LOL! I've seen lots of transcripts but never ones with elementary-school grades. I must admit, however, that I sometimes fantasize that the only recommendations colleges should require are the comments from kindergarten report cards. Want to see who a kid really is, before he or she starts sucking up to teachers for college references or becomes self-conscious about what one is supposed to do or like or be? Ask a pre-school teacher! :)</p>
<p>Someone, frankly, needs to bring a class action lawsuit to prevent the disclosure of information that a student does not want disclosed. The transcript should be final grades for a course during a semester, gpa and class rank and NOTHING more. </p>
<p>Further, I have long pilloried the teacher/guidance counselor recommendation forms because a student has no control over what is said and if it is even accurate. </p>
<p>To me, colleges only need to know two or three things from guidance counselors and teachers: how hard working the student is and if there were any behavioral issues of a serious nature. If not, then they should leave the rest blank. A student's extra curricular activities can give the college another indication of "character" though that also is subject to criticism. </p>
<p>Guidance counselors can be highly vindictive if the parent has intervened on the student's behalf and been critical of a teacher or the school in the past, sometimes for a sibling and not even that student. They can give a very tepid recommendation which is undeserved, yet go completely undiscovered.</p>
<p>On the other hand, every year, thousands of less than honorable students get into colleges of their choice and become the problem student for that college because the high school failed to comment on specific "serious" problems like cheating or drug use or sexual harassment issues.</p>
<p>Mine has final class grades and regents exam grades.</p>
<p>You can ask your GC to print you out an unofficial transcript. In fact, you should ask at the beginning of every school year to make sure that there are no mistakes on it from the previous year. It's a lot easier to clean up mistakes right away rather than wait until senior year when you have to send the transcripts out for "real".</p>
<p>i moved schools before junior year. would my old class rank be shown?</p>