How to get secondary school report?

Transfer Students
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<p>Does anyone have any trouble going back to their high school and getting someone to fill out the common app's secondary school report? I don't know any of the counselors from high school, so I don't know if I will even be able to get the letter done. My best case scenario is that someone writes a very superficial recommendation letter.</p>

<p>Any comments?</p>

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<p>How long have your been out of HS? Most HSs keep records around for a few years for situations like yours.</p>

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<p>No I called up my high school and asked for them to release my grades and they made me come into the school and fill out a form that states what colleges they will send my high school grades to. And if this is for transferring with the recommendation letter your high school won’t give out your high school recommendation letters because you are “no longer a student at the school.” You need to get them from a college professor but make sure the colleges you want to transfer into want the recommendation letter.</p>

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<p>^^^It varies by HS, D1 had no problem with her HS giving her transcripts and sending the SSR from fr admissions.</p>

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<p>I’ve been out of hs for 2 years. But the main problem is that I don’t know nor did I know any of the high school counselors, so I don’t really expect them to fill out the secondary school report from the common application for me.</p>

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<p>But have you asked them if they have your old one on file??</p>

<p>They can fill out the basics, for instance, providing your school profile and related information, and they can state that you were a student in good standing. For the qualitative aspects of rating you, they can just make a statement saying they are unable to do so for the reasons you stated.</p>

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<p>I guess that what they’ll do. Those who had a close relationship with their high school counselors must be a step ahead a lot of people lol.</p>

<p>Thanks entomom =)</p>

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<p>What if I only graduated from High School the past school year? Last year my high school conselor wrote me a letter of rec and attached it to the secondary school form for the “evaluation” portion. Can I just reuse that (even though it was a bit corny and had some factual errors). I don’t want to ask him to write another letter and I don’t see any reason for it.</p>

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<p>Yes, just reuse the SSR & GC LOR from fr admissions, there’s no need for it to be revised.</p>