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Is it possible to get some high school credits for middle school work done - eg algebra done in Grade 7/8, some history writing done etc?
And how does it work - do I just keep a record?
Thanks for any help.
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Marilyn, the best way to do it is to add it to the high school transcript without saying that it was done in jr. high. Just add it as a course any old year.
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Yup. That way there is no issue with some schools not wanting to count work done in the junior high years. Wish I had known that sooner, myself...
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MacBeth wrote:
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Are you saying on the Transcript to lie and say it was done in sophmore year? Or are you saying to put the date of the class but not specify that it was Jr. High? Or are you suggesting not including dates in the Transcript and just putting the dates of highschool at the top of the Transcript?
I think I don't understand...
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Another way you can do it is rather than arrange your transcript by years, arrange is by subject. I only know this because I just listened to a talk by Janice Campbell the other day. She probably has a lot more info. on her website if you google her.
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jennthmg wrote:
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Are you saying on the Transcript to lie and say it was done in sophmore year?
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I guess I am. But from my perspective, yearly organization of high school classes is arbitrary. If a student is doing "high school" work before high school, he should get credit for it, if it's a class he needs for a college application. But I don't think it's so much "lying" as accommodating the requirements of the admissions board. They want to see the work done; they are trained to ignore work done before "high school," so one can add it into the "box" they do check.
Since, from my perspective, traditional high school "years" are irrelevant, and since I am filling out the form they require for ease of admissions evaluation, and I am truthfully listing the courses completed, "lying" is not what's really going on. Rather, it's fitting a non-traditional education into a traditional mold. For all they know, our freshman "year" took two years. That's totally valid from a homeschooling perspective.
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Martha in VA wrote:
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Ah! Yes, that's true, though a few schools do require that you fill out their transcript forms, so that might be tricky. I do know someone who did this, though.
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I'm sorry, MacBeth. I didn't mean to imply "lie" in the sinful perspective, but I wasn't sure how else to phrase that (sometimes my words don't work).
Thank you for the answer. That's really how I think about it, too...just trying to figure all this out.
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jennthmg wrote:
I'm sorry, MacBeth. I didn't mean to imply "lie" in the sinful perspective, but I wasn't sure how else to phrase that (sometimes my words don't work).
Thank you for the answer. That's really how I think about it, too...just trying to figure all this out.
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Oh, no offense taken, Jenn! I have thought this out and rationalized it to myself before. 
In the end, I did not need to do this, as Libby had more than enough credits and appropriate courses going to fill the transcript nicely, but I can see the concern, especially for those pesky science classes.
When I was applying to college in the last century  , I tossed in a class I had completed in 7th grade on the mini-transcript with the application, and the admissions officer giggled at me. Seriously. But grade level is such a false paradigm that I felt (and feel) no need to be constrained by it.
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Always the rebel, MacBeth! We homeschoolers tend to be, don't we???
Truly, how I explain it, and something I'm quite proficient in, homeschooling in NY State, is that they're asking us to put a square peg education into their round hole requirements.
It doesn't fit, so I PUSH it in and MAKE it fit!!!! 
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