<p>Hi, I am an international student in some school not in the US. As weird as it gets, our counselor doesn't know what transcripts are, or what they contain, or how to make them. Please help me out! I have to submit transcripts to many good colleges, and I have no idea how to make them!</p>
<p>Please tell me their format and contents. And I wont mind a link showing a sample, if you happen to know one!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>It is an official school document (mine is watermarked all over the place) with signatures by appropriate school officials.</p>
<p>You should contact your school principal, eventually the department responsible of secondary school education (if there is such a thing) - they know how transcripts from your country are made. My country has a standardized transcript design.</p>
<p>It basically tells your grades, or level of achievement, in the subjects you attend at school. Either by a number scale (1-4, 1-6, 0-10), by percentage, by letter grades (A-F) etc. If you attend a school that doesn't grade, be sure to tell the college about this.</p>
<p>You can get some help at Commonapp, in general, it is nothing but your High School Grades and their scale/ Grading System, attested/sealed by your principal/ head of school/ or any higher authority (In school).
In fact, I designed my transcript myself. (No one knows what is a transcript, out here!)</p>
<p>@issacnewton Did it look very different from the original? </p>
<p>I'm designing mine myself as well, but it looks a lot different from the original, the school said I shouldn't copy the original's design for some reason. And now I'm worried, that that will look weird to adcoms.</p>
<p>As long as everything mentioned in the transcript is correct, there shouldn't really be a problem</p>
<p>Thanks all of you guys! I have to design my transcript to, as there are no transcripts in my country, only report cards!</p>
<p>@issacnewton and others: Should it be a single page or 2 pages?</p>
<p>Also, should all my grades (like mid year exams and final exams) since 9th grade be on the transcript?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Mine was 6 pages. :p
If your country don't have any national examinations for High Schools, all your Final exams' grades (Till 11th grade) should be there. If you are in 12th grade, you should be sending mid-term/ mid year results (current year) along with predicted scores (Done by your teachers/ School Authority)
And, I forgot how original looks like. I designed with my own knowledge. It went perfectly fine.</p>
<p>Thanks Thanks! Well, My school has the GCE-A Levels. Should I include just them, because we don't actually have Final Exams, just A level exams!</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as you, Flibb :)</p>
<p>So, I googled and found this template Secondary</a> School Transcript</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me if this is roughly what it should look like? But on official school paper of course.</p>
<p>Good find poison ivy! But hey, I went to the link on the top of the page, and found out that this is a high school transcript for homeschoolers :s. Do keep me posted on your further finds though :D</p>
<p>Thanks. I've basically finished my own version of a transcript just now, based on that table from the template and with added other bits that are only relevant to our school system etc. Then I'll just show it to our headmaster, and ask him to print it on official school paper and validate it. Do you think that sounds okay?</p>
<p>It is almost what Im going to do. But i'm waiting just in case I find out some other details that need to be added, so that I dont have to go to the headmistress again. Here is a similar thread I started in the admissions section:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/596304-help-transcripts.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/596304-help-transcripts.html</a></p>
<p>Well then, O Level, AS level and A level grades will do.</p>
<p>Thanks issacnewton!</p>
<p>I'm not really sure how this whole thing with transcripts work. If I use common app, do i still need to mail in a transcript? Or is that something my counselor will do when he fills out the common app?</p>
<p>lol I also made my own transcript and got it stamped and signed in school. Here's what it had in it: </p>
<p>STUDENT INFORMATION
Name
Address and telephone number
Date and place of birth
Sex
Register number
e-mail
Grade in 2008/09 school year
Division
Anticipated date of graduation
Rank in generation
Grade average</p>
<p>SCHOOL PROFILE</p>
<p>*DESCRIPTION OF GRADING AND MATRICULATION *</p>
<p>GRADE EQUIVALENTS</p>
<p>DETAILED TRANSCRIPT OF COURSE COMPLETION GRADES FOR SELECTED COURSES
subject grade and curriculum grade year of study
World lit. 10th - Baroque literature 5/5 11th (for example)
...</p>
<p>ANTICIPATED 12th GRADE GRADES</p>
<p>Isn't the school profile to be made as a separate document? Or does it go inside the transcript?</p>
<p>All go with the transcript..
Yes, you will need to mail the transcripts. How will your counselor go about filling your Commonapp online?..:p..</p>
<p>Why wouldn't the counselor be able to do that? :S
I thought there was a way for the counselor to upload the transcript?
but this whole thing really confuses me, so im not sure :P</p>