Letter grade vs. Numerical grade

Sikorsky
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:28:19 +0000

Second what halcyonheather says. My kids’ school system, for example, puts only letters on the transcript: no pluses or minuses, let alone numbers. And it also lists only a final course grade–no semester grades, no mid-term or final exam grades.

But not all schools’ transcripts are alike. I have taught in schools where the official transcript did include pluses/minuses, semester grades and exam grades.

So while I agree that colleges have access to all the numbers on your transcript, I have to note that just about the only number on my kids’ high school transcript was the ZIP code.