<p>It will be interesting to see what the purpose was. To make a guidance counselor look better? What could be the reason for this?</p>
<p>WCBS</a> NEWSRADIO 880 - Fort Lee Investigating School Transcript Alterations</p>
<p>I wonder for how long this may have been going on. Perhaps the purpose was to make the school district look better when more students would be admitted to more competitive colleges. This is a case where standardized testing comes in. Standardized testing also would help define what an A in one district means compared with a B in another district for the same course.</p>
<p>Editing: Oh, it says this took place over several years. I guess some students were admitted to more competitive schools based on inflated false grades.</p>
<p>Hard to believe this went on for years and no one noticed. No mention by a student or parent? It surprises me how many students and parents do not review transcripts for errors. And hard to believe there was not one honest student who spoke up. A college would certainly look favorably on a student who brought up during the admission process that their school had made an error that favored the student. Honesty would have probably trumped the adjustment in the grade.</p>
<p>In all fairness to the student and parent, the alteration may not have ever been seen by the applicant or applicant's parents. The school sends out transcripts directly, and the alteration could have been done after the transcript was reviewed by the applicant.</p>
<p>I guess that it is refreshing to see an honest guidance counselor, who did not just zip his/her mouth and collect a paycheck, but went out on a limb to blow the whistle.</p>
<p>What makes me really angry is that this hs is in my state. I wonder how many kids lost seats at state schools, or merit aid at our state schools to a student with a fictitious transcript.</p>
<p>I wonder if over the past few years there were students who were shocked to be accepted into certain colleges? I wonder if any colleges would ever consider rescinding admissions, given that the students apparently had no knowledge of these alterations.</p>
<p>We have it here in California:</p>
<p>Principal</a> at Preuss abruptly steps down | The San Diego Union-Tribune</p>
<p>The truly sad thing is this discredits the transcripts of all the students at this school who actually earned their top grades. Colleges will probably maintain a "jaundiced" opinion of this school for quite some time.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>What makes me really angry is that this hs is in my state.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>As General "Buck" Turgidson might have said, "Mr. President, we must not allow a transcript gap!"</p>
<p>NorthJersey.com:</a> News of altered transcripts stunned college admissions officers</p>
<p>How are our kids supposed to have a chance against institutional cheating?</p>
<p>Nothing shocks me anymore.... Disappoints, yes, but surprised, no...</p>
<p>I'm curious HOW they discovered this cheating, the article doesn't say.
Did a transcript contradict what a student had self reported? If a student reported and A- and their transcript was A, that could tip them off.</p>
<p>I hate cheaters</p>
<p>If institututional cheating is so hard to detect by the college, I'd guess that someone within the school blew the whistle.</p>
<p>I'll post updates when they are printed in the local paper. The principal has already been suspended.</p>
<p>Another thread concerning this topic was started early today. Perhaps the moderators can merge these two threads. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/662191-altering-high-school-transcripts-within.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/662191-altering-high-school-transcripts-within.html</a></p>
<p>EDIT: The threads have now been merged. - Mod JEM</p>
<p>Larry Wolff, who was hired in November as director of guidance, discovered the irregularities.</p>
<p>I guess they couldn't pay him enough to keep his mouth shut. Good for him!!!</p>
<p>In a district near me, everyone knows there is rampant cheating on the state regents exams (in NY they function as subject area exit exams). In most districts there is some correlations between SATs/ACT/Subject tests -- not in this one. So their solution -- they stopped reporting SATs.</p>
<p>According to tonight's news, this has been going on for six years. Going forward, several administrators will examine each transcript. There may be criminal charges filed.</p>
<p>I don't understand why the students, or their parents, didn't notice the changes, unless they were given a different version than the ones sent to admissions offices. That's a lot of paperwork.</p>
<p>That's probably what happened, Bela. In our school district, a copy of the transcript is sent home for parents/students to check for accuracy in early September. If the transcript was altered after parents/students saw it, they would have no way of knowing the grades were changed.</p>
<p>At our high school, a student is never given a copy of the transcript unless they request one for use at their interviews, etc. Of course if someone was bent on changing the transcripts as they are being sent to colleges, the applicant/student/parents would have no way of knowing.</p>
<p>Ways that this could be spotted. D has brought transcripts to interview. Some have been used in the interview and then kept. A college would then have that to cross compare. But of the student brought an altered transcript (knowingly or not) then nothing would be caught.</p>
<p>MIT could certainly catch a transcript falsification also unless the student were in on it. I always wondered why their application requires the applicant to self report every one of their grades in each academic area. If those self reported scores were different, a red flag could be raised.</p>