C+ in Honors Algebra II

cptofthehouse
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:41:00 +0000

You need to ask your GC exactly what colleges will see from the transcript your highschool sends to them. Most high schools have a format that they send to colleges that is not what you ordinarily get. It differs from school to school do you need to find out directly from the guidance counselor.

For colleges, Some schools only show final year end grades for courses. No quarterly breakdowns or even semester, no exam grades. Exceptions being semester long classes, first term senior year grades that Colleges want and if you switch from one course to another after a semester.

At my kids’ school, only unweighted grades show in the transcripts both to students and colleges. The weighted Gpa is given next to the UW. Only year end grades show up to the colleges at the end of each year unless the course is only a semester.

In my kids’ scenarios , dropping that C course would turn it into a semester course and it would then show up as a unweighted C. This is the case even if they switched to a regular Algebra course. Two different courses so two different grades would show in the transcript to colleges. If they stayed in the Honors course and brought the grade up to a B or A for year end average, colleges would never see the C and it t would not be computed in GPAs at all

My son had a 4.0 UW GPA and his highschool transcript to colleges showed zero courses with anything other than an A. Even though he did NOT in reality get straight As every single quarter. He had Bs sprinkled in there, certainly B+s and A-s , maybe even B-s. I’m sure some of his final exams showed such grades. But all the colleges saw were the year end grades which were averaged by his high school’s formula that included first semesters, second semester and the two semester finals to get that final grade. His weighted and UW gpa were given on the transcript. Class rank only given if specifically needed and requested and that was calculated with semester, maybe even quarter grades, I believe. I have no idea how school picked valedictorian which was grade point based , but no clue how the grades were picked. He was not the Val or Sal despite 4.0 gpa and very high weighted grade point as well that were both on college sent transcript. Other kids had better grades in semester breakdown basis.

So you need to talk to your GC so you know exactly what colleges will see from your school. It’s not that simple because high schools vary in this regard.