<p>Does having a 5th year of high school look bad on transcripts for college</p>
<p>It’s not the 5th year that looks bad, it’s the unsavory grades in the previous years which led to an extra year…</p>
<p>Doesn’t the improvement look good though? I got bad grades in the first 2 years, but then started getting mostly As after that. And then yes, I had to have a 5th year of high school to make up a credit, possibly an extra math class.</p>
<p>Just one class? Can’t you do summer classes or dual enrollment at CC?</p>
<p>my consoler told me ths does not offer art class during the summer. i would also like to take algebra 2, and that is a whole year.</p>
<p>i did some research on community college, and i found out that i would be almost starting over with math before i get to the level that is required for colleges. they don’t offer algebra 2.</p>
<p>but does a 5th year of high school of college looks worse.</p>
<p>i am very confused someone please help me make a desision.</p>
<p>You need to sit down with your counselor, and evaluate whether or not it makes sense to spend a fifth year in high school just for these two courses. Will you be able to get into a college (or career) that you can’t get into by just enrolling at the community college instead? </p>
<p>What other classes will you be taking to fill your schedule during that extra year? And, what do your parents think about all of this?</p>
<p>If you truly can do well that fifth year in high school, yes, it can make a difference. It can open up some more doors than taking that summer school course or comm college courses. But it really depends on the individual situation so much that you have to talk to a counselor about this. </p>
<p>My son’s friend did what is call a Post graduate year at a prep school. He went to a school where he truly did miserably his freshman year and was behind in terms of taking college prep courses in high school. He had gone to a terrible middle school in a dysfunctional family situation, that was resolved his 8th grade year. Unfortunately, he did not do well in 8th grade or 9th. But rallyed his sophomore year and did quite well his junior year. But his courses were all lower level in line with his lack of preparedness from the onset. So by the time he graduated, he was really the equivalent of most college prep juniors. But his stellar grades in some tough courses senior year (though they were not traditonal senior year courses) made it clear that he could have handled a load that a typical college prep good student in a good school takes. So he took the PG year which put him in some AP and honors courses and brought him up to Calculus level and 4th year of a foreign language. </p>
<p>Yes, it made a big difference in his college list and acceptances. For him it was worth while.</p>
<p>You can take Algebra II online through BYU either in the summer or while enrolled this year. Or you can take Algebra II (and art) at your local community college.</p>
<p>You should look into starting your first year getting Algebra II and Art and other classes at your community college for that year. If your community college grades are good it will temper your high school grades, which are looked at less for transfer students.</p>