<p>Does it show semester grades or quarter grades? Or does it differ based on how my school submits them?</p>
<p>Depends on your school. Generally it's just semester grades, though.</p>
<p>Schools do it differently. You definitely want to know what your school puts on the transcript. At my school, I paid $1 and they immediately gave me an unofficial copy of what the transcript looks like.</p>
<p>My school just showed the year-end grades for grades 9-11. Don't know what they did for 12th, but I'm assuming they just sent in the 1st semester grades for the mid-year report.</p>
<p>The transcript is the only part of the school's part of the application that I got to see. Everything else (including school profile, recs, etc.) is kept under lock and key, and we basically don't ask.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on when you ask for a transcript....I requested a transcript this month and it shows my grades up to first semester and on the second semester section of it, it just shows what classes I currently have....</p>
<p>...for my school, it shows the grades from 9th to my current grade (it also includes summer school classes I took before 9th grade; like for example, I took Geometry the summer after 8th grade and it shows it on my transcript)....</p>