The high school’s student Legislature recently passed a bill that may improve rising seniors’ high school transcripts: the Senior Grade Rounding Bill.

The Senior Grade Rounding Bill was passed during X-block on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, with 27 votes in favor and one abstention. The bill states that seniors’ quarter grades must be rounded to the nearest whole number, as quarter one and two grades for seniors from senior year are sent to colleges.

Seniors and student representatives on Legislature, Antonia Duffield and Timur Tuncman, wrote the bill this spring in hopes of helping any students who may need to argue for their grades with a teacher.

“When you send a quarter grade for a senior to college, it’s kind of treated as a final grade,” Tuncman said. “So we thought it would be fair for us to round for seniors, and most teachers already do it. We really wanted to put it in the handbook and make sure everybody gets the same treatment.”

According to Duffield, there are two types of bills in the student Legislature. The first kind is a bill to implement a change in people’s behaviors, and the second is a bill that clarifies a rule in the handbook that most people are already practicing. Duffield said the Senior Grade Rounding Bill is an example of the latter, because “most teachers were all already rounding quarter grades.”

Faculty chair on Legislature and English teacher Peter Sedlak said that most teachers were already practicing this policy, but it may help a couple of students whose teachers were not.

“If on Canvas, some students saw that their grade wasn’t rounded on their report card, this will allow them to feel the power to go speak to their teacher about rounding senior grades,” Sedlak said.

Duffield said that although she does not know anyone who has encountered this issue, she thinks the bill is important to set the standard for the school of grade rounding.

“I’m sure there are people who have experienced [their grade not being rounded], but for us it was about seniors sending in these applications or transcripts into colleges, and it’s really important that their grades are reflected accurately,” Duffield said.

Head of School Anthony Meyer has the option to veto the bill in the next couple of weeks, but Tuncman said he does not think that Meyer will do so.

“I’m excited for this to be in,” Tuncman said. “I mean, hopefully it doesn’t get vetoed, and that the seniors next year can benefit from it.”