Finally finished the Common App essay! I thought it would never happen. I think it’s really good, although I’d like anything at this point just to have it be done!
In terms of interviews, S20 hasn’t had any. He’d scheduled one with Wake Forest, and then decided he wasn’t interested and cancelled it. We got an email from UIUC that they were scheduling meet ups with adcoms at starbucks, so that is how this meeting was scheduled. Most of S20’s schools are big state schools, and I don’t think they have time for interviews?
Just to clarify - still hasn’t submitted any applications yet! Two schools asked for his grades to be put into common app. The rest seemed to just be ok with the transcript from the high school. This slowed S20 down because he wasn’t sure how to put in the middle school classes that count for high school credit (Spanish 1, Earth Science, Algebra)
Does Earth Science count for HS credit?
What qualifies as a high school credit depends on the content of the course, not the title. My 12 grader is currently taking an earth and atmospheric science credit. (She is using Lutgen and Tarbuck’s text which is a classic college intro meteorology text.). She plans on pursuing that as a major in college. Definitely a high school worthy credit.
If she was using a text geared toward middle schoolers, it wouldn’t be.
Ours does count because it’s a regents class. (Regents is a NY state thing) It is listed on his high school transcript, along with algebra 1 and Spanish 1. Other middle school classes are not listed, only the ones that are high school level.
I asked the question because of the difference with putting grades in common app and what will show on the transcript.
@NYC2018nyc I would put MS classes under 9th grade, but only the ones on the HS transcript. I doubt your MS will be found under the HS lookup. Putting them under Other is probably fine, too. I really don’t think it will matter. There are probably a few threads about this in CC, yes?
@Mom2aphysicsgeek I understand content vs title of course. My question was more about a junior high offering a high school level science course. I’ve only seen colleges/scholarships offer credit for jr high math and LOTE.
Regarding your question. Some of the applications offer a space for junior high courses. Those that don’t usually ask you to add it as if it was taken in 9th grade. I would check with the schools. You can add the courses, submit an application and then remove them prior to submitting another application.
Two classes from DS20’s 7th and 3 from his 8th are on his HS transcript, as they are part of the HS level courses, but they are excluded from his GPA calculation.
@bgbg4us and @NYC2018nyc I am reading this thread 4 days late and home your kids have progressed a bit. 4 days is actually a lot of time for some kids when deadline looms. Mt twins are working vigorously and getting distracted all in the same time. Even though I had promised not to be anxious for these two (since I already went through this process with DS16 and nothing good came out of my anxiety), I still cannot help it. But I loved @fencingmom quote from some movie; If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. Let’s keep calm and cheer our kids on…college application is just the start and is not the finish line!
@junk4rp I was curious about that quote, as I liked it also, so I looked it up. Apparently that quote is widely attributed everywhere to John Lennon, but it may be originally from an old Indian proverb. Lennon was a student of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, so that would make sense. It was also used in the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and was used prior to John Lennon by Brazillian writer Fernando Sabino, although it is often wrongfully attributed to another Brazillian writer Paulo Coelho.
@CAtransplant its funny that you mentioned about its Indian root. In a very popular Bollywood movie, there is this famous quote by the protagonist “Life is like a film, it always has a happy ending and if there is no happy ending it means that the film is not done yet”.
The quote I alway tell my kids is “No success is final and no failure is fatal”.
I guess I am confused. If a school offered the course as a high school credit, isn’t it on the transcript already as a high school cr? Can students self-select what credits are on their high school transcript?
I would expect that all transcripts for all high school courses taken from accredited sources would be need to be included otherwise a state would not offer the course designated as a high school course.
I teach a high school senior course using the Lutgen and Tarbuck book. I love it. If daughter has questions about Meteorology feel free to PM me. I have a BS and an MS in it.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek our MD is next door to our HS and GATE/advanced middle schoolers can walk to the high school and take one class in 7th and two classes in eighth. Usually a math or foreign language, some eighth graders take Bio.
None of these classes appear on the HS transcript. They are taught by the h.s. teacher on the h.ls. campus as high school courses. But they only offer advanced placement as a freshman in high school, no credit.
In our district, a student can take two years of LOTE in junior high and it is not shown on the HS transcript. They start HS taking LOTE 3 Honors as a freshman. They can also take Algebra 1 and Geometry in junior high and neither shows up on the HS transcript. They start HS in Algebra 2.
My daughter took Geometry and A2/Trig in M.S. at the high school and neither are on her transcript. Any college admission person should know what was going on when they see she took pre-calc as a freshman though.
Another application in today! Hopefully two more tomorrow.
Interesting how different states do things.
@ lgk4answers Have you asked your school’s GC if it should be self-reported?
Our high school transcript includes high school classes taken in middle school and the grades are included in the cumulative high school GPA and class rank. Those classes include honors algebra 1, honors geometry, honors physical science, honors English 1, and foreign language (I think we only have Spanish 1 and French 1).
DS exclaimed yesterday that all his recommendations and transcripts have been sent to the colleges. He seemed a tiny bit anxious that now the ball is in his court…