Do I Just Send Transcripts to the Admissions Offices

Applying to College
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<p>I'm sorry, I know this sounds like the world's stupidest question, but I'm terrified that I'm going to send my transcripts to the wrong place.</p>

<p>So do I just send the transcripts to the Admissions Office?</p>

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<p>Are you a US student? Then you don’t send your transcripts anywhere. Your GC sends your official transcripts along with the Secondary School Report to each college you’re applying. You coordinate this with your GC. Even though deadlines are Jan 1, the school reports and transcripts are allowable after the deadline.</p>

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<p>Nope; they’re making us do them ourselves because we have too many students at our school. They used to do it for the kids, but not anymore.</p>

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<p>Well then YES, you send it to the admissions office. What do you do about the Secondary School Reports then? Those still need to be sent from the schools. Have they turned that over to you as well?</p>

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<p>Schools will accept transcripts that have been in the hands of students? That’s news to me.</p>

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Perhaps in the school-sealed envelope?</p>

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<p>I can’t imagine that any high school in America would institute a policy such as this without thinking that through, but man, I really hope they thought that through!</p>

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<p>In my high school we sent our own stuff. Well, I did anyway. My GC printed copies of my transcript, school report, and anything else I needed. I went after school and stuffed envelopes (the big Manila ones), signed/sealed them, and mailed them.</p>

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<p>My kids have to send their own transcripts to OOS schools and private schools; the hs only sends them, electronically, to state schools.</p>

<p>We pay $2 per transcript, and they are indeed sealed with a sticker across the flap. Both of my kids were accepted to their colleges using this method. It is a huge amount of work for the guidance office as they can’t have students make the copies, and they don’t have manpower to send all the requested transcripts. I guess they could just have us address the envelopes to each school and pay extra for the postage, but they find this method works.</p>