Most of teens classes are a year long and so teen gets one final grade (although we get progress reports). On teen’s transcript there is one grade listed per course. The grades are not divided by semester or terms on the transcript. There are some classes that teen took that were not taken for the whole year but for half a school year (or one semester). Those are easy to tell because they are worth half credit instead of one whole credit. So whether a class was a full school year long or half a school year long, it appears as ONE final grade on the transcript. I am also not sure if teen will accurately remember which semester of the school year some of the half credit courses were taken (1st or 2nd).
My question is, if he follows the transcript verbatim while filling out the SRAR, it seems like he should use the “yearly” option for entering all the grades even those that were 1/2 a year, and just make sure he reflects the credit correctly. Is that right or wrong? For example transcript format reads:
If a course is one-semester long, choose Semester for the Course Length. Enter the Grade in the Semester in which you completed the course and leave the other Semester field blank.
This is where it will be a little problematic unless he pulls out his old progress reports. For example in 9th grade I don’t know that he necessarily remembers which semester he took the half credit courses. Also he is trying to follow the transcript verbatim and they don’t divide anything on the transcript into semesters. They just have the course, the grade and the amount of credits it was worth. They don’t separate the semester courses from the year-long courses on the transcript. I think I’m going to just suggest to him to reach out to his guidance counselor to make sure everything is correct.
I’m sure the HS has that information, although he probably knows the info. I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I know what fall term courses I had in 9th grade.
Once he started entering the info he remembered which semester he did what. You were right. The only other section that was surprising is that there was actually a “numeric to letter grading scale” section. But school provided info on that section.
I wouldn’t worry too much if he gets something a but muddled. The college will still receive his final transcript and that’s what will be official. I am never clear on why some colleges want a SRAR anyway.
