<p>Just want to double check to make sure this "guaranteed" full tuition scholarship for 1400+ SAT is legit. Helping a young friend right now who applied this week. His SAT CR & M are 1490.</p>
<p>He's filling out scholarship app right now. I don't want to miss anything!</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes. Just make sure he gets his app in by the deadline.</p>
<p>Yes, he already applied and is filling out scholarship app right now. But does he have to have all components in by the 15th? I mean like scores, transcripts, etc? Or just the application?</p>
<p>Send a PM to mom2collegekids. She will know if it’s everything or just the application. </p>
<p><a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/freshmen/index.html”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/freshmen/index.html</a> says:</p>
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<p>Well, no way he can get everything in by Monday, but it says it’s priority deadline, so hopefully it’s not a hard and fast deadline for all money. It’s worth a shot at any rate. His GC is backed up for two months on transcripts. 
I know it was a last minute app, but what are you going to do?</p>
<p>Can the transcript just be sent from the high school without any work or queuing from the counselor?</p>
<p>Seems like transcripts should be no or trivial work for the counselor anyway – why would it take two months (especially since UCs and CSUs which represent the bulk of college applications from most California high schools do not require transcripts at application)? Can the student bring an addressed envelope and postage, have the school put a transcript in it and seal it, then put it in a mailbox before the mailbox is collected that day?</p>
<p>That’s a good thought, ucb. I have no idea why. I am a homeschooler working outside the Naviance box, so I don’t really know what to say. I’ll text my friend (he just left) and ask if it’s possible to get a transcript and mail it on Monday. </p>
<p>I have heard his counselor is a nice guy, but I never got a response when I emailed him about something. It’s a good school with a good reputation, but big for sure.</p>
<p>It’s usually the secretaries or admin assistance who physically send the transcripts, not the gc.</p>
<p>It may seem like it would only take 5 minutes to put a transcript in an envelope and mail it, but when you have hundreds of students wanting things that would only take 5 minutes, in addition to everything else that takes more like 5 hours that people also need by tomorrow, it becomes a matter of saving your sanity to say “I can’t possibly get it done any earlier than 2 months from now.”</p>
<p>That said, stopping by the guidance office with a pre-addressed, pre-stamped envelope certainly can’t hurt. Good luck to your friend, sbj!</p>
<p>Right, eyemamom. I called my young friend and he said it’s handled by the registrar and there’s no way it’s going to happen on Monday.</p>
<p>Thanks for the support, dustypig! We’ll just have to wait and see how it all turns out.</p>
<p>Bama understands that transcripts and test scores may not be rec’d by Dec 15. Bama has always allowed time for those things to come in. </p>
<p>As a matter of fact, Bama accepts the Dec SAT and ACT scores, so obviously those scores aren’t rec’d by Dec 15th. :)</p>
<p>Get the school app in by Dec 15th, and then send the rest as soon as possible. I know that the above says, “should be postmarked by the 15th,” but I highly doubt Bama is going to penalize a kid if the school postmarks a day or so later. Kids can’t tightly control what schools do.
Note the words “should be”…it doesn’t say, “must be.” That’s important.</p>
<p>And, yes, the merit award is that easy. Yes, there is a Santa Claus…and he wears CRIMSON. ;)</p>
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<p>That’s an idea. and some schools give students sealed transcripts and the students address the outside and send them in. in this case, take it right to the PO to get the postmark.</p>
<p>Have your ACT or SAT score(s) sent to us. Our ACT code is 0052 and our SAT code is 1830. Information on these tests is available from your high-school counselor or from the test services: ACT, Box 451, Iowa City, IA 52243; SAT, College Board ATP, Box 592, Princeton, NJ 08541.</p>
<p>Have your most recent official high-school transcript sent to The University of Alabama, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Box 870132, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0132.</p>
<p>Our high school was one where you ‘ordered’ the transcripts and they sealed the envelopes and then you had to pick them up and send them in. They did take about 15 minutes for the office secretary to prepare and she had to make the copies and then certify them, and each was about 5-8 pages. One secretary, 425 graduating seniors and of course some juniors wanting transcripts too. They have all kinds of things like vaccination records and state test scores and an explanation, but that was the ‘official record.’ These couldn’t be done by the student interns in the guidance office because it is all confidential information.</p>
<p>This is when it pays to be nice to the secretary. If it was absolutely an emergency, she’d get them asap. If it was someone who constantly had emergencies, constantly made demands, you’d wait in line. It would never be two months, but it could be a week.</p>
<p>We had two mix ups, and both were not the fault of the high school (NCAA and school both claimed they didn’t get the final transcripts, and in both cases they had). School was very helpful in getting another copy out ASAP.</p>
<p>Bring in a basket of muffins and beg-that was what we had to do one year, and then we stood there until the transcript was printed and placed in an envelope.</p>
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<p>Yes, but sbjdorlo is in California. If the high school is like a typical California high school, most applications to universities are to UCs and CSUs, which do not require transcripts on application*. So the transcript load on the high school should be fairly low.</p>
<p>*Courses and grades are self-reported on the application. Final transcripts are used to verify self-reported courses and grades for admitted students who matriculate.</p>
<p>It’s not about how many transcripts, specifically, have to be sent out. It’s about every other task the guidance department has to take care of that results in the counselors having no time.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to argue one way or the other about how bad the workload actually is at this high school’s guidance department. I’m just saying that from a student’s and parent’s perspective, it looks like “but it would only take 5 minutes!” but from the perspective of the person being asked to do it, that may be the 20th 5-minute task she’s been asked to do today, and meanwhile she’s still trying to finish up something else that has to be done by the end of the day and there are a dozen other long-term projects that she’s putting off and putting off . . . </p>
<p>All I know is what this student said was protocol and that it couldn’t be done. Ucb, this is a high school that sends kids to top schools, so a lot of kids are applying to both UCs and Common App schools.</p>
<p>My young friend even has a parent who works at the school (and who’s very popular with the students), but that hasn’t helped when it’s come to admin.</p>
<p>Admittedly, he applied to Bama at the last minute because he realized he needed one more safety. But there are some things going on in his personal life that have been challenging, so this is not foremost in his mind.</p>
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<p>Too funny…head to a nearby Panera Bread or similar, get an array of muffins, pastries, and bagels and hopefully they won’t have the heart to turn y’all down.</p>