<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I have primarily got accepted by UCSD. UCSD admission office requested me to send all the transcripts to UCSD since I spent one year in high school in China, and I already did sent them the notarized transcript. Somehow they said their international specialist said that the document I sent cannot be used, and she wants my high school to send them the transcript to them directly in a translated fomat. I tried to contact my high school and found out there is no way they would do it, and I explained it to UCSD. Now the international specialist wants me to show her the original transcript that shows all three years of middle school on it. There is no way that I can do it, especially it was four years ago. </p>
<p>Both of my high school in US gave me the credits according to the notarized transcript. Why does UCSD admission office keep asking me to do these undoable and non-sense requests. I just sent them an email and told them that it is impossible to do that request. Why won't they accept the notarized transcript? It has already been certified by the Chinese consulate. I have never heard of this before. Almost all the colleges will accept that, including MIT. I am really afraid that this will affect my admission in UCSD.</p>
<p>Please tell me what to do if they continue to ask me do the undoable request.</p>
<p>Maybe you could supply your own copy of your grade records from that time (meaning your report cards as you earned them, not a transcript)...do you still have that?</p>
<p>You mean my original transcript I got from my high school? yeah, I have that. That is the document that I notarized. I remember I asked them if they want the original one yesterday, and they said no.
They are being so ridiculous.</p>
<p>This is a very standard requirement for someone who had high school study overseas. My wife was able to obtain an official transcript from her high school and have it sent directly to the college she applied to.</p>
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<p>Ah, I see the problem. You didn't do what UCSD asked for in the first place, which is have an official transcript sent directly from your high school. You sent them a copy of your grade report, notarized in some way, hoping that would suffice. But that isn't what UCSD asked for, and that undoubtably raised some red flags for them. UCSD isn't alone in this regard --- all colleges make admissions offers contingent upon receiving official transcripts directly from your high school.</p>
<p>If you want to attend UCSD, you need to call your high school in China, and get them to send the OFFICIAL transcript ASAP. I can't imagine that would be impossible -- lots of kids from China study abroad, so it would seem that most high schools would at least occasionally get these sorts of requests.</p>
<p>It will be worth the price of the phone call, and any begging you need to do to get the high school to send what UCSD is asking for as soon as possible, instead of running the risk of not being able to enroll in the fall. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>No, you misunderstood me. I contacted them already, and they said they would not do it since they were only responsible for giving me the transcript, and it was my responsibility to have it notarized. The document I sent to UCSd was the exact same one I showed to my high school in America, and they both gave me the credit according to the notarized transcript. Moreover, I only spent one year in high school in China.
Now they are requesting me to get the original transcript that shows all three years of middle school on it, which is undoable. My middle school definitely does not keep my profile or any grade reports, unless I pay them lots of money so that they will make up one for me. Plus, everbody is in vacation at this point, which even makes it more difficult to get in touch with the ones who are in charge of admissions in China.
IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO!</p>
<p>Every high school in China these days should understand the correct way to send a transcript to a college. What carolyn said makes sense.</p>
<p>First of all, don't panic. Make sure you contact UCSD as soon as possible and keep inquiring about what you should do considering the schools in China are not cooperating. Maybe you can get your school to write a letter stating that they don't keep your files on record and they only give out one type of transcript. If you see things aren't going your way, definitely schedule an appointment with the dean. It might seem absurd, but go along with them. You don't want to run the risk of getting consequences.</p>
<p>That's true.
I have already kept contacting UCSD through email. Getting the school to write a letter with the statement might not be a bad idea. But the fact that everybody is in vacation makes everything difficult. It is extremely hard to get in touch with the dean of the middle school in China.
Do you think I really should email the dean of UCSD admission office and explain him/her the whole situation? I have done everything I could and the requests are truly undoable.</p>
<p>Yes. Contact the dean of admissions. It sounds like it's your last option. Be polite, have all your documentation in order, and show (by way of phone call records or emails) your contacts/talks with the school in China. Good luck.</p>
<p>I can empathize with you regarding the difficulties you're having in dealing with a Chinese bureacracy. In order to retain a law firm to represent my employer in China, I had prepare a notarized statement from a corporate officer declaring that the Chinese firm represented us; next, I needed a certificate from the county clerk attesting that the notary public was registered as such. Finally, I needed a certificate from the California Secretary of State attesting that the county clerk was really a county clerk.</p>
<p>Courts in this country assume that a lawyer wouldn't bother showing up to represent someone of he/she hadn't been retained to do so.</p>
<p>I certainly wouldn't assume that every high school in China has students who are applying to American universities, and staff that understands how American universities want things done.</p>
<p>The person you're dealing with in China may be underpaid and overworked, or lazy, or jealous of someone whose material prospects appear to be good. Such people can be motivated to do the right thing. </p>
<p>Is there a person you or your parents know in China who has sufficient "guanxi" to make an appointment with the person in question, and ask that they complete this task? Someone local whose request would be tougher to ignore than that of a high school student who lives on the other of the world?</p>
<p>I have a piece of paper and I can print anything I want on it. I can even call it my "official transcript". Notarizing it proves nothing; it just means the signature on the document was really the person who signed it, but tells nothing about its origin.</p>
<p>UCSD doesn't want a document signed by you or anyone else here in the States. They want an official document from your HS. I know YOU would never do this, but you can understand why UCSD is leery of transcripts that may have been tampered with; that's why they want an official one directly from your HS in China. If this is really undoable then you might end up having to make other plans for the fall.</p>