<p>My school does not issue transcripts (only report cards). I asked my counselor (school principal) and she asked me to give her a sample transcript which she could fill out using the school letterhead and her signature. Will it do as a transcript?</p>
<p>In short, Yes. I will PM you a sample.</p>
<p>Thanks mate, that’d be great.</p>
<p>@tizil : PM me too please! :)</p>
<p>Tizil</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>I think a copy of the Final Report card is sufficient. For my D we sent an attested copy, with current school’s stamp and counselor signatures, of Class 9th and 10th as those were of CBSE and the 11th and 12th were the IBDP. I do not think they have to be sent as transcripts. The counselor form of course is something different which can be downloaded and handed over to the school.</p>
<p>Can a school teacher be qualified as a counsellor?</p>
<p>the school report cards are to be sent by email, snail mail or fax?</p>
<p>Snail mail as far as my knowledge goes…</p>
<p>@veethiv - even if I send rest of the parts of the common app online?</p>
<p>After submitting the supplements, you need to snail mail them the transcripts.
I always had this doubt, is the deadline offered by colleges only for submitting the online application or even for mailing the transcripts?</p>
<p>Woah. 3 PMs? Hahaha okay :D</p>
<p>Anialways, my counselor made me write a simple 1 A4 page tabulated “score card” with marks from 9th through 11th (of the final report card) and then she attested it. I passed it to my new counsellor and now she just has to send it to all the colleges I am applying to. I am not sure how to go about the IBDP, but from what I hear from my friends, universities give conditional offers based on the IB predictions, yes?</p>
<p>I think the reason my counselor insisted on a transcript was maybe because it is a one page document and doesn’t involve the hassle of handling 4 different report cards.</p>
<p>@Bist and Veethiv: You should leave it to your counselor to send the transcripts. My counselor will just upload it through common app for the CA schools. For others (UC, MIT, GTech), she will most probably fax it, though i am not sure.</p>
<p>EDIT: o____O Sooo close to 400th post :p</p>
<p>I guess it should be applicable even for mailing the transcripts?</p>
<p>@tizil - my school counselor is so aloof of all things to be done while applying to US! the old school counselor left 
my current counselor needs some counselling herself 
thanks by the way :)</p>
<p>@Tizil: There’s no counsellor for my school! What do I do? I would have to send them by myself only… Can I get the report cards attested by my school and mail them to colleges on my own? Would it be applicable?</p>
<p>@veethiv - apparently we are on the same boat lol</p>
<p>Can’t the transcripts be uploaded on the commonapp? It has a special section for it. Right? I can’t be bothered with snail mail right now,i 've got enough on my plate with the online apps.
Thanks anialways,maybe i won’t need to make a transcript then. I’ll just email 2-3 colleges to make sure.
And thanks everyone else for helping. True that our schools know nothing about this stuff. I am the only one in my school applying to US colleges and one of the 3 in the city. So they really don’t bother.</p>
<p>Guys, I am not replying here :p</p>
<p>@Karan: So will you make your own format of the transcript or scan your report cards and upload them in pdf format? Same case with me, nobody else if applying from my school…</p>
<p>oh and btw, is it necessary to get the marks converted into grades?</p>
<p>I’ll make my own transcript format and fill in the marks. My counselor will sign it and upload it on the commonapp. It’ll be better because instead of multiple report cards,all the info would be summarized on one document (in my case 2 as I switched schools in 12th). And we need to list the marks as they are without converting them to grades. The college websites say that they ‘know’ our system so we don’t need to make any changes.</p>