Should I mark Geometry as a pass?

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I took Geometry 2 years early as a 7th grader, and I ended up finishing the class with a 3.5. Because Geometry is considered a high school course, my grade is shown on my high school transcript and GPA. I was wondering if it’s worth it to have Geometry marked as a pass rather than a letter grade to keep a 4.0 GPA?

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That one 3.5 shouldn’t matter for college admissions…if that is what you are thinking. Plus, if you took geometry as a 7th grader, you will have taken a number of higher level math courses by the time you apply to college, right?

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Yes, I am on track to take AP Calc BC senior year.

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Would your school retroactively change a grade in this way?

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Our district doesn’t seem to have an openly stated policy on that matter–from my understanding, I believe it is a possibility.

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Shame on them

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Just because it’s not “openly stated” doesn’t mean they’ll retroactively change a grade. I honestly have never heard of a school system which allowed that. But you can always ask…

Can’t imagine it will make a difference in any conceivable way, but if this is bugging you, go ask.

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I agree you might ask, then there is no downside to changing that to a P. For the record, (IMO of course) putting 7th/8th grade courses on one’s HS transcript is one thing, but including those course grades in the HS cumulative GPA? I just don’t agree with that, and I haven’t seen too many schools that actually do that.

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Yeah, I don’t fully understand the reasoning behind it. I did email my counselor to confirm that it does go on my GPA.

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For the record, even when high schools include, some colleges back them out; they know that the academic performance of an 12 year-old isn’t always a solid indicator of college potential. Not that an A-/B+ in a HS course is bad regardless of age.

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This is going to be a “sample size of one” sort of story, but I really don’t think one B (especially in a class taken as a 7th grader), is going to be the determining factor at all in what colleges you are admitted to.

My oldest son (high school class of ‘25), would have had a 4.0 but for an exam-for-credit he took in 8th grade in order to pass out of of Algebra II, and start 9th grade with Pre-Calc. He got a B on the exam, and the district’s policy is to list that the exam grade becomes the full year grade for the class on the transcript. He’s now at Rice studying applied math. The only place he really wanted to go that he was rejected from was MIT, and I’m sure the reason he didn’t get in had nothing to do with that singular B on his transcript.

(Side note for anyone reading this wondering about the wisdom of testing out of Algebra II as an 8th grader - He was in an usual situation in that he was homeschooled in K-8, and entering public school full time as a 9th grader. He took Geometry as a part time student at the district middle school for high school credit, but did Algebra II at home – due to district policies, the only way he could get the Alg II credit on his transcript that was required to graduate was by taking the exam for credit…but we received some inaccurate info on what topics were covered, so he wasn’t quite as prepared as we hoped, hence the B. He wanted to start an college calculus program offered by our state flagship university starting in 10th grade, which this path allowed him to do.)