<p>Could be worse. After 3 Docufided transcripts to a flagship Louisiana state university (which one?) they called us and said to have the school send an honest-to-goodness PAPER transcript :-). Prior to that they sent 3 postcards “Dear Turbo Jr. please send us a transcript” and Jr. Docufided one, then after 3 times…</p>
<p>My current senior’s transcript has to be requested a month in advance. I have no idea of why… one of my other children attended a neighboring school (same public school system, same process of sending out transcripts, same staff-- and other kid’s school is actually larger) and they only required 2 days notice.</p>
<p>Our school says to put in the request 10 days before the student applies to the college (not sure why that matters) but at our school, they mail out the teacher rec’s in the same envelope so that is an area for a potential hold up. </p>
<p>My son asked 2 teachers in the spring and they told him to re-ask in the fall. He asked them 3 wks ago and I do not believe either teacher rec is finished yet. </p>
<p>Why a teacher who was asked in the spring would tell the student to re-ask 3 months later during the hectic time when school restarts is beyond me. Really unnecessary and adds to the stress.</p>
<p>For those of you whose schools take forever to send out transcripts, how often do you think administrators ever get together and ask among themselves, “How can we do this better?” I would bet almost NO public schools ever do this – anything that requires the least bit of effort above proctoring lunch room is wholly resisted by teachers and administrators. With most public school kids going to in-state schools with rolling admissions, administrators do not have time or care (as regards reforming their processes) for actions that would seemingly benefit only a few.</p>
<p>And how about those schools that “limit” how many applications you can send out? Even worse, how about those teachers who say they will only write three recommendations for school, so pick three schools very carefully. Since when do admins control who or where to apply, and since when have teachers become authorities on college admissions so as to restrict a child’s choices? At some point, you really start to wonder if these arbitrary restrictions amount to free speech violations?!</p>
<p>Don’t they just send the same recommendation to every college? Why limit to 3 schools?</p>
<p>When D1 was applying to colleges 5 years ago, they didn’t have Naviance. The school made a packet with the same info for each school D1 was applying to.</p>
<p>D2’s current school uses Naviance, her transcript, recommendation letters are all loaded up to the database. Whenever she submits a common app, her school reports are sent.</p>
<p>My kids attend a public HS of about 1100. For first 3 kids, transcripts were sent out in less than a week. I was always impressed by the speed. And for the majors my girls were applying for, timing did matter. Each school had a firm application date where everything had to be in, or it was too late to be considered.</p>
<p>Public shool with ~450 seniors–two rules: (1) transcripts are printed on Wednesdays; and (2) one week’s notice is required. Secretary talks tough, but it’s only October and she’s already violated her two rules for S … but next time … :)</p>