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Don’t ever make that horrible mistake :O</p>
<p>You can find a treasure trove of information regarding this somewhere in TIT #20 by Anialways, PD and Pixie.</p>
<p>For everybody</p>
<p>The deadline is firstly for submitting commonapp online.</p>
<p>The 9/10/11 and 12 midterm Report Cards are sent in snail mail attested by your current school with school stamp and signature. These will not be accepted by colleges if sent by fax or as scanned email attachments.</p>
<p>Do not convert your marks into GPA. The adcoms understand our system and are able to put them in perspective, so avoid confusion.</p>
<p>Remember to give exactly that you are being asked to, keep it simple. The adcoms are dealing with 20k to 40k plus applications for each college.</p>
<p>Your SAT, High School Academic record 9/10/11/12, Essays, ECs will catch their eye in the first glance, in that order 90% of the time.</p>
<p>Don’t stress too much but be on top of your deadlines and keep your essay that of a 17 year old.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter if you have switched schools during HS, because your current school admitted you on the basis of your old school’s Report Card so they will attest those.</p>
<p>One more relevant and important part of applications is the Teacher and Counselor recommendations. They should be able to assess you honestly highlighting your academic, personal and EC strengths without overdoing it. And it is your job to make sure that they are aware of the deadlines and therefore you should give them enough time and not hurry them up. If some of these current teachers have not known you for long the it helps to fill them up with one page bullet or tabular form of your various achievements.</p>
<p>@anialways Are you sure that the report cards have to be sent by snail mail? I recently mailed Johns Hopkins University about it and this was their reply:</p>
<p>’'Applicants to Johns Hopkins University using the online Common Application can have their school forms submitted in one of two manners. First, if your school chooses, they may submit their parts of the application (school report, transcripts, recommendations) online through the Common Application web site. Please review the Common Application Web site for instructions on how to submit school materials online.</p>
<p>However, we understand that not all high schools have the capabilities of submitting transcripts, school reports, and recommendations online. Therefore, applicants to Johns Hopkins University may submit their portion of the application online (application forms, essays, and application fee payment) while having their school materials mailed by their school. School guidance offices may submit their school reports, transcripts and evaluation forms through the postal mail by sending the materials to the Johns Hopkins University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Be sure your complete name and birth date is included in all mailed application materials, and that your school uses the Common Application forms.’’</p>
<p>It seems so that we can send everything online. Please advise on what to do.</p>
<p>I am just going to share what I know.</p>
<p>If your school does not have CEEB OR ACT code, the documents that need verification go by snail mail. So while the Commonapp application and essays will sent online the teacher recommendation the Secondary School report , the International supplement will be filled on line but if your school does not have online transcript system, it will go by snail mail.</p>
<p>My D went to a world school and her school also has the CEEB code on common app, still the envelopes containing report cards, recommendation both teacher and counselor were sent in stamped, the courier fee paid by the students, but tracked by school. They had a register with a page for each student and an entry was made for each envelope and the these were physically checked by the students before being sealed. However, the recommendations were not shared. Just go through the International Supplement of commonapp and you will get an idea of what I am saying.</p>
<p>It is the students job to provide addressed envelopes.</p>
<p>The school provides the recommendations, school profile, the predicted grades for IBDP because their finals are in May or the International Student supplement (download from commonapp), counsellor recommendation, counselor recommendation form/secondary school report, and the transcript.</p>
<p>The students leave the completed envelopes with the school, the school couriers it, the student makes entry in counselor’s register and collects the consignment number for future reference and tracking.</p>
<p>What Tizil was referring to regarding GPA conversion discussion is here post 377 onwards</p>
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<p>I have added my counselor on the commonapp and she says there’s a section for uploading the transcript on it. She wants to know whether to upload the transcript there if she is also sending them by snail mail.</p>
<p>Am quoting texaspg from another thread </p>
<p>"Instructions to school counselor on commonapp</p>
<p>TO THE SECONDARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR
Attach applicant’s official transcript, including courses in progress, a school profile, and transcript legend. (Check transcript copies for readability.) Use both pages to
complete your evaluation for this student. Be sure to sign below before mailing directly to the college/university admission office"</p>
<p>Just a suggestion why not send through both upload as well as part of the packet. The only problem I see with that is documentation hassle for adcoms. As it is they are handling huge amount of paper. I still think the transcript goes by snail mail from India with the rest of the documents I mentioned in Post 25 because makes it easy to track the delivery. </p>
<p>And if your application makes it, they will be asking you for missing documents over and over, trust me, it happened with my Ds application at NYU.</p>
<p>She received an email from them on Feb 02 that</p>
<p>" Following credentials have not been received:</p>
<ul>
<li>High School Transcript</li>
<li>Standardized Test Scores "</li>
</ul>
<p>They even made an exception, accepted/acknowledged a scanned verified faxed copy of 9/10 grade from school’s official fax machine and waited for physical mail again in Feb,2010, which went missing even though it was sealed and sent with Recs, school profile, predicted grades in the presence of my D in December 2010 and SAT scores were sent by collegeboard using both the options- where you can choose 4 colleges and they send scores for free- and ‘Rush’ scores as well.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot anialways. I’ll ask my counselor to do both. Also is the deadline for school reports and transcripts sent by snail mail also 1st Jan? If it is so,I’ll have to send it earlier than I planned and it will be difficult.
I am planning to add my teachers email addresses to commonapp and they have agreed to fill in the recs online. Should I send the recs again by snail mail too?</p>
<p>Also I wanted to ask about FA at NYU. Can I PM you about it?</p>
<p>Sure you can.</p>
<p>But according to my info Internationals are not eligible for FA at NYU.</p>
<p>Regarding sending everything, the Colleges discourage you from double documentation. Like I said too much paper and also electronic mail load for them to handle.</p>
<p>The teacher email addresses are more for future verification and communication. Otherwise stick to the Instructions on International supplement and Secondary School Report form of commonapp regarding documents to be sent in the envelope.</p>
<p>The deadlines aren’t the same for snail mail right?
Thanks for the information Anielways!
It cleared all my doubts. The transcripts part was tangled in my head. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>NYU’s website says its limited. I just wanted to know how limited is it and how hard is it to get.</p>
<p>All you guys/gals are welcome.</p>
<p>No need for so many Thanks. Overload… I understand what you all are going through.</p>
<p>The deadlines are for dispatching both online as well as snail mail.</p>
<p>Usually the commonapp “submit” button can be pressed at 11:59 pm on 1 Jan, that being the deadline but remember the servers will be jammed with traffic overload and better to be a day or two or weeks earlier. The snail mail should be despatched before the Christmas break, for sure. 15-20 December should be good date for both the things for your peace of mind</p>
<p>Also Karan since my D was full pay did not do any research on FA but let me if I can find out something. This is from NYU website</p>
<p>International Students</p>
<p>Many International Students inquire about obtaining financial aid to assist with the expenses of a degree program. There is very little financial aid available to International Students and NYU has limited resources for financial aid for International Students.</p>
<p>Students who are not U.S. citizens or eligible non-citizens (international students) are not awarded financial aid at NYU New York and therefore are not required to complete a financial aid application of any kind.</p>
<p>Okkaaayyy so I asked my counselor to make a transcript and she made one with all my 9/10/11 grades on a single page (and it’s attested), but reading all this, I’m getting confused. Am I supposed to mail my report cardsas well? My counselor was planning on uploading just the transcript on the commonapp. Won’t that be enough?</p>
<p>and also, grades versus marks? the transcript she made contain both, but I didnt get that good in 11th in marks but they look good in grades (come on, a B- looks better than 62 
)</p>
<p>I’d appreciate the answer to the above question too. Both reports cards and transcripts?</p>
<p>Another one: I left my 9th/10th school like 4 years ago and the principal has changed. We never had a counselor.</p>
<p>Then I did 11th from another school, took two years off and gave 12th as a private candidate this year.</p>
<p>Should I send three different transcripts, then - 1 from 9th/10th, one from the 11th school and one as a home-schooled applicant?</p>
<p>Btw this forum is incredibly helpful. Thanks guys :D</p>
<p>Just send a single transcript. If you feel confident about sending the report card grade-wise, send it along, otherwise let it be. If the Colleges want to see those independently they will ask you for those. </p>
<p>Maybe it would be good idea for those who have switched schools during HS to send them along.</p>
<p>In my D case we gave her school the report cards which were to be attested by her current school as she switched from CBSE in class X to IBDP in class XII. The school counselor did send the copy of attested report cards along with the transcript. But the school she applied to, ED, did ask her to resubmit her 9/10 class report cards again.</p>
<p>So do not stress too much on this. Just send a complete and honest report.</p>