@speechless17 :
Can you find out whether common app counts as one transcript?
Because one transcript is uploaded, once, and is sent to all colleges the student applies to.
There’s a difference between counting common app as one (1 upload of transcript counts as one) or as ten (if applying to ten colleges).
If the total number is 8 and Common app=1, CSU/UC/state Universities use Self Reported (no transcript sent till after may first) = 0, then you add 7 non common app, non SRAR colleges, it seems reasonable.
If common app is individually counted then it doesn’t seem reasonable because it doesn’t matter whether the student applies to one or ten colleges on Common app, you upload only once.
I also don’t think it is unreasonable to charge students after 10 transcripts. If you are searching for merit money, aren’t the fees worth what you expect to gain in return?
Heck, if my kid were getting $60K a year to go to a school, paying the transcript costs are worth it.
When my kids were in HS, I was on staff at their HS. I often walked in on the Registrar to get transcripts of students who wanted me to write their LORs.
She would say: “I can’t get that for you right now Auntbea, I’m swamped with transcript requests-this kid has 30 private scholarships (these are not Naviance) and I have to have this pile ready before the mail truck gets here!”
I would ask: “Can I help?” and she would say, “I wish you could, but it’s not allowed. We have to follow the process and not lose any requests.”
@sybbie719 for post #69
it is a public high school.
@MYOS1634
it is per college and they told me they would send the transcript electronically.
It is also a reason I tried to find out what incremental expense will a high school incur if a student were to add an additional college. From everything I read here is that it is “one upload” for common app. However, will it make a difference if a student identifies all colleges one time or add individual college every few days. If it were the latter, does it mean that the GC would have to click update (or submit) each time the student update the college list? Will the GC receive individual transcript request mail messages (it will mean time to read the mail)?
BTW, is it even upload to the common app? as I understand the GC does not have access to the student’s common app, right? I heard it was Naviance “linked” to the common app. How does it work?
@thumper1 I am not going to discuss whether we will be looking for need-based aid as I think it is irrelevant here. First, your calculation on post #20 is off. Second, I do not see how the determination of whether a charge is reasonable depends on my ability to pay. Therefore, if I were able to pay $200 per transcript, is $200 per transcript reasonable? As in post #52, we look into whether it is “reasonable and customary”.
@“aunt bea” nice story (post #61), I wonder which 30 private scholarship the student applied to. One thing is clear that there was a lack of planning for the school which had to rush to get the transcript out last minute.
@blossom good for you for your view of LIFE.
Speechless, there is x amount of money taxpayers have provided to your public school. How that money is divided among the competing claims on it is always controversial. If you can find another area to de-fund and get the school’s support to divert those funds to this cause, do so. If you can find a private donor or PTA to fund your cause, do so. Or perhaps you are willing to do so yourself. Barring that, your claim on public money to support your child is limited in the same manner as everyone else’s. Some might find your sense of entitlement selfish.
After shelling out 6 figures for private primary & secondary schools, and living in one of the highest property tax districts in our state and receiving no value from our local PS besides a playground and tennis courts, I have no sympathy for the OP. I would have loved to have vouchers like in Indiana.
FYI, transcripts were ‘free’ from our private HS.
Get that money from the football program. Sports seem to have an easier time of parting parents from their money than academics, hey. Could you do a bake sale? Cookie dough? Xmas wrapping? Car wash? Mattress sale?