If I reclass does my grade from the 1st freshmen year go to college admissions?

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And forgot to mention, I need a F final grade to take online/summer school. That means I need below a 40 Q4 to fail.

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Get something from your current counselor in writing about the health issues that the new counselor can add to their LoR (or have the former counselor send something to the new counselor once you are settled.) If you are transferring now and repeating 9th grade, you should talk with both your old and new counselors about remediating the D in geometry.

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What grades does your schoolā€™s transcript show? Quarters? Semesters? Full year only?

You wonā€™t need anything from the counselor if you remediate the grade.

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I donā€™t think my counselor would write anything about the health issue especially since I reported my teacher to my counselor since what she did was against the hand book (As much days we missed, we get that much extra days to do the work/test) and she didnā€™t do anything about it.

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It shows Quarters, but Iā€™ve heard from the seniors when its sent to colleges its only final grades but Iā€™m not sure to believe that.

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Ask your counselor tomorrow.

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I will make sure to do that, I think I can take Geometry again at my private school by doubling up Geo and Calc next year or ask them if I can take the class during the summer of going into Soph because Iā€™ve heard they allow you to do that.

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To be clearā€¦if your 9th grade transcript only shows full year grades and you get higher than a D, you donā€™t have to remediate. If the D shows on your transcript, you should talk to your counselor about remediating, potential impact on college admissions, and possible options/solutions.

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I think I might be able to get a C for my final grade.

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You have a D in geometry at your current HS, and your new HS is putting you in calculus next year? As a 9th grader? How? Why?

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If you get a C, donā€™t retake, even if the school allows; itā€™s not a good look for you. Just get an A in the next class.

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I placed into Calc through the placement test at my private high school. I have a F (Q1) B- (Q2) C+ (Q3) and currently a B- (Q4). Its not that Iā€™m doing terribly, its just that one quarter because I had to retake 3 tests and make up 7 assignments within 2-3 days when I never learned the lessons since she doesnā€™t post notes online and I thought she would give me a 8 day delay like every other teacher did because of the handbook guidlines.

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Along with that my teacher just graduated from community college and this is her 1st year teaching so she hasnā€™t got the teaching style down yet. For example she was out for 2 weeks because of some event in her family and posted online notes that no one in the class understood and returned, gave us a review, than a test which the class average was a 50. The class averages have been as low as 37s to the highest peak at 79 which was the first test ever which was algebra based.

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Along with that I study outside of school by myself using AOPS textbooks and some other textbooks. I mostly do competition math where Iā€™ve been doing ok in like getting a perfect on the AMC 8, USAJMO qual, and some other things.

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I think you may be worried about the wrong thing. Youā€™re worried about the grade when you should be thinking about whether you have really truly 100% mastered that material. If you didnā€™t have time to learn it or it wasnā€™t taught well, odds are you havenā€™t, and remedying THAT deficiency needs to be your priority.

You have options on how to address that. You can find a summer course. You can ask your new counselor (and head of the math department) at your new school to advise you on what to do. Again, you need to understand that your problem is not the grade but a possible gap in your math foundation.

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If a student attends School A for 9th grade, then switches to School B and repeats 9th grade (which is not uncommon), it seems possible never to mention School A on a college application.
Your high school counselor may not know you did this.

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Letā€™s assume the counselor knows that.

Letā€™s further assume that nobody, particularly an adult, would advise a 14 year old to lie on college applications

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When an a student applies to HS as a reclassing 9th grader, admissions office has their transcripts for 7th-9th grades from former school(s). Academic deans will know they are repeat 9th graders. College counseling office will be well aware that they have done a repeat 9th grade year.

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My assumption was that the counselor had no idea that the student repeated 9th grade. In that scenario there is no adult giving bad advice.
A student may not realize 3 years later (when he/she is 17 or 18) that a school he/she attended beforehand would need to be listed on the Common App. Therein lies the question that was asked on CC.

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I just realized this question was in the Prep School forum. I was envisioning our dreadful public school system of 100k kids where no one is asking any questions about any student who shows up.