Help me please! Is there a problem with my high school transcript?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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I am almost sure my counselor sent a high school transcript which is missing 9th grade. I study in Mexico, so officially, high school starts in grade 10.
I have three questions:

  • Does the Common Application indicate in any place that the transcript must include all four years of high school (in Mexico’s case, the last year of middle school and the three years of high school)? Is it like a form you fill or does the counselor just submit a document freely? If it’s a form requiring filling all four years, that means I shouldn’t worry about an incomplete transcript.
  • In case my counselor made that mistake, would it be a problem for colleges that I indicated in the Common App that my enrollment at my school started in August 2011 (the year I started 9th grade) but my transcript only containing info starting in August 2011? I fear it would look like I had to repeat a year or something.
  • In case it is a problem, is there any way my counselor could submit a corrected transcript? It is past the application deadline but many colleges accept documents like the transcript up to mid-January. (I’m applying to NYU.)
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Why not speak to your guidance counselor today?

The odds are pretty good that schools like NYU have admitted kids from Mexico before, and are aware that your high school started in 10th grade. And the admissions counselor could tell from your birthdate that you hadn’t repeated a year. And I’m pretty sure that there are still some US schools that follow the same model, where Jr. High includes 9th grade.

Deep breaths. They’ve dealt with this before.

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I sent MIT and they said it ok to attach 3 years (since my high school is also 3 years). So I did this to all colleges :smiley:

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@IMTLD1‌ Thanks! That’s relieving. Good luck. :slight_smile: