<p>Good question, kollegeyippee, and it's definitely one you need to ask your guidance counselor because the answer will vary from school to school. Some high schools will send the entire transcript from your old school to colleges along with the new one from your current school. If that's the case, then, if your old rank was on the transcript, colleges will see it. </p>
<p>But, often, the new school will simply carry over your courses, grades, and probably your GPA from you old school onto one of their own transcript forms. The transcript will note that these grades were earned at a different high school, but there will be no mention of your rank.</p>
<p>In fact, because you only went to your old school through 10th grade, you may not have even been ranked yet (do you know for sure that you were?).</p>
<p>The key point is that, when it comes to transcripts (or to a gazillion other things concerning college admissions), you can't count on consistency, so you need to ask your counselor how this is done at your school.</p>
<p>Sally, I moved from a school in Australia where we don't count GPAs and the grading system is very unusual. Like we don't have +s or -s and its very good to get a B and only 5% of the cohort (and this is one of the best in Australia) gets a A in a particular subject thus its basically impossible to get a 4.0. Also we do 8 subjects with many involuntary such as Art and PE where many of the academically orientated get Bs or Cs and thats acceptable. </p>
<p>I've done half of year 10 at this Australian school but then I'm moving to Year 10 at Phillips Academy Andover (so basically i've repeated half a year) because of the fact Australia's academic year is the calender year and I'd have to either accelerate 6 months or repeat. </p>
<p>No one from my Australian school has gone to an American uni except for one kid like 10 years ago who went to Wharton. We send 1 a year to Oxbridge and 10-15 go to the very top Australian university. </p>
<p>So my GPA at Australia would be 3.75 Unweighted but I don't think it shows my proper GPA if we were looking at it from an American perspective. What I fear is my guidance counselor in Australia won't realize this and thus won't mention it. </p>
<p>Is there anything I can do apart from just getting great grades at Andover? </p>
<p>In fact I'm not sure how high my Australian GPA is. The highest it can be is a 3.7 I think as I never checked it because we don't use a GPA. It might be lower. </p>
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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.
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<p>^^ Eh? How does that work --- scanning in stickers?</p>
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So my GPA at Australia would be 3.75 Unweighted but I don't think it shows my proper GPA if we were looking at it from an American perspective. What I fear is my guidance counselor in Australia won't realize this and thus won't mention it.
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<p>Depending you where you are applying, the admission officials may--or may not--be familiar with the Australian grading system. Adcoms at the well-known US colleges that draw a broad swath of international students tend to be quite savvy about this stuff. In addition, you can write a brief note to all your target colleges to explain this situation and/or ask your Phillips Academy counselor to do this for you. (In fact, chances are that Andover counselors are accustomed to advising international students and have a protocol in place for handling transcript differences.)</p>
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Is there anything I can do apart from just getting great grades at Andover?
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<p>You can do all the usual stuff, of course ... earn great grades, take an active role in your school community in an area of interest to you, etc. Then, when it comes time to write your college essays, choose topics that will highlight the "diversity" you will bring to campus because of your Australian heritage. In other words, instead of focusing on "Winning the big basketball game" or "My Spanish Club trip to Salamanca," write about a holiday or tradition from home that you really miss and have tried to continue in Massachusetts or perhaps about an Australian political or social issue that is important to you, etc. Such essays will "remind" admission folks that you will be bringing a different perspective to their campuses, even if you have completed high school in New England.</p>
<p>I opened one of the extra transcripts I had laying around (our school gives the sealed transcripts to us after we buy them and we have to mail them). It had final year grade, GPA (weighted and unweighted), class size, class year, my class rank (in percentage), said which classes were honors or ap and which weren't, showed which year I took each class, and if I don't remember incorrectly it also had my SAT scores. Can't remember if it had the ACT scores, though...</p>
<p>I forgot what it had for 12th grade. If I find it again, I'll come back and post a more detailed account.</p>
<p>Okay thanks, Sally that's really good of you. How many essays can one write in college applications as one of mine is hopefully delegated to my passions in politics + economics (but perhaps I could merge it with Australia hopefully...)?</p>
<p>Also will college adcoms care I repeated half a year?</p>
<p>Ours does not include exam grades - only trimester final grades and year end finals. It also lists awards by year, disciplinary actions and, in the case of 2 unfortunate seniors this past year, it states that they were dismissed (our word for expelled) on the Monday prior to graduation and did not take finals.</p>
<p>Has anyone had their "days absent" listed on a transcript. D had medical reasons for absenteeisms and we were wondering if anyone has seen that listed. I spoke to our guidance department and she said "I think it's on there". </p>
<p>In August when final junior year GPAs are finished calculating, I will ask for a copy of her transcript.</p>
<p>Yep, "Days Absent" is often on the transcript and can indeed raise flags for admission folks when the number seems high. An explanation may be in order.</p>
<p>On my transcript: Courses, Grades in those courses (including citizenship), amount of credits earned, GPA, rank, number of absences and tardies, Graduation Requirements List (says "yes" if met, says "no" if not), Immunization records, Information about student (name, parents name, telephone number, location, etc.), and ACT/SAT/CAHSEE scores.</p>
<p>If you think you won't want your test scores sent to colleges on your transcript, don't wait until close to application due-dates to ask if you can get them removed. At some high schools, you'll be able to do this with little hassle, but at others you may feel as if you're running into a brick wall.</p>
<p>Reasons for wanting your scores expunged from the transcript include:</p>
<p>-You're applying to test-optional colleges and don't want the scores to be part of the evaluation process. (Even if they're not formally part of this process, you may be better off not letting the adcoms see them at all.)</p>
<p>-You'll be applying under the upcoming revised SAT system which allows applicants to select which test scores they want released to colleges. Most high schools that put SAT's or ACT's on transcripts include ALL scores</p>
<p>Whoa, according to this sample one that my school gave out at a parents' night, ours has race on it. o__O There's this, like, stamp-looking thing w/ a space for "ID," "birth," "sex," and "race."</p>
<p>Also includes: Final grade for every course, days present and absent each year, senior schedule, a "graduation summary" (has categories like English, Mathematics, Science and how many years are required and the counselors fill in the level of the course for each year? I dunno, hard to explain), umm... "explanation of grading system," "explanation of course designations" (AP vs GT vs Honors), "Maryland Functional Tests" -- no idea what those are, weighted rank/GPA, unweighted rank/GPA, graduation date... Idk, not a lot else.</p>
<p>mine's got final grades. as in, one grade shows up for each class. exams and all the marking period grades are all averaged together. but apparently it varies school to school.</p>
<p>and then my sats are on there, my sat subject tests, my pssas, and my graduation project score. (the latter two are pennsylvania stuff)</p>
<p>So I take it then that most transcripts do not show the comments from teachers that are written on report cards? </p>
<p>I'm going to have to ask my guidance counselor about this anyway. They made a mistake this year and didn't give me a credit for one of my courses (which I passed).</p>
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<p>Some transcripts DO show comments. I have seen everything on transcripts from generic numerical comment codes (e.g., 1=Outstanding in all areas; 2=Good) to rambling diatribes (most common in small private schools with no grades or with atypical grading scale).</p>