<p>This is so unfair. I was rejected by many schools which I thought were matches. I was so sad when the rejection letters came. Anyway, I got over it and decided to go get a copy of my transcript for scholarship purposes. When I went to my counselor and looked at my transcript, I was so shocked. My freshmen and sophomore courses were all screwed up. It had about 4 honors classes missing, it had a regular biology class that i never took in my life, and my math class and spanish class were one level lower. I didnt understand at ALL. So I inquired my counselor about this, and she said she didn't know anything about it. So i said, well i want to know what happened, and she goes i dont' have an answer. Then I go, well did you send this transcript to my COLLEGES? And she goes, I don't know. (I assure you, this whole time, i was very calm. It was the counselor who was getting upset for no reason) This seriously sucks. We fixed the transcript now, but it's too late. Life is so unfair.</p>
<p>If you are on any waitlists and you would like to still take a shot at attending those schools, an explanatory letter and a corrected transcript might help.</p>
<p>Make sure that you let the principal and the school board know about the situation. Your colleges should receive a letter of explanation and a corrected transcript ASAP. It may not be too late for them to reopen your file.</p>
<p>To all juniors - make an appointment with your counselor and go over your transcript this year oe in the fall. Don't let this happen to you!</p>
<p>unfortunately i was rejected. When i looked at the transcript before, it was fine, but i think somehow when the quarter grades were put in, the system got screwed or something. No one knows what the hell happened.</p>
<p>Dear lord!!!!!</p>
<p>Tell the principal and the head of your guidance. They have to write a letter to those schools. It may be to late, but dear lord. Seriously, talk to all the schools that rejected you and inform them of your school's stupidity. They f'ed with your life man, your life!!!! </p>
<p>I thought this type of thing only happend in the movies. This is so unfortunate.</p>
<p>ihavenolife, DO something now, while there's still a chance.</p>
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<li><p>Tell your counselor to open up lines of communication with all the schools that you applied to. Explain your situation AND send them a letter. If you can, go visit the school and talk to the dean of admissions.</p></li>
<li><p>Get your transcript fixed and resent, NOW.</p></li>
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<p>I can't believe this happened to you. Your school owes you big time. Tell your counselor to get off his/her ass and do something. It's high time they started doing things right.</p>
<p>Get mad!</p>
<p>Don't be a push over, have your parents call the local papers, the mayor the whole 9 yards until it gets sorted out. Even if you got rejected not because of the mistake, it could cause a reject for someone else.</p>
<p>Do you have a shotgun? I do. Do you want to borrow mine? :)</p>
<p>Er, if this isn't some stupid copy of Orange County, then it's grounds for appealing: one example of "significant new evidence" is that your transcript was wrong.</p>
<p>ihavenolife,</p>
<p>First, I would take a breather and approach your counselor and vice principle/principle assertively but tactfully about it. Getting mad, as some have suggested, will only make things worse.
If you approach staff very tactfully it will actually show them a HUGE amount of maturity on your part that will help them in approaching those colleges about the transcript issue (i.e., the colleges may get wind that you were an ass to your school about it when they hear about the transcript problem and decide you're not worth reconsidering because you have an attitude.)</p>
<p>GO in with a parent...and now</p>
<p>I would also contact each and every school, get the name of a specific person to send in corrected transcript to, so it doesn't get lost and the school faxes it tomorrow with a cover letter taking full responsibility</p>
<p>So right know, get online and get names, or get up REAL EARLY tomorrow if the offices are closed and get a particular person's name to have letter and transcript faxed to, so when you go in tomorrow, you are prepared and they have no excuse to not take care of it immediately</p>
<p>the counselor should also call each and every school personally, apologize and work on your behalf</p>
<p>Is your school still open? Have a parent call to set up an appointment to discuss this in the morning, so the counsleor, the registrar etc are there</p>
<p>I am so sorry</p>
<p>sue the school</p>
<p>hope you pull through man</p>
<p>Do something, anything. Get mad, throw a fit, you deserve it. Rejected from all? Gosh, I hope you're alright.</p>
<p>Good advices above. Go in and make it clear (firmly but nicely) that you expect the school ( means the councilor ) to make things right by calling each college and ask if it would reconsider due to new information. Don't make your councilor the enemy, make him/her your friend.</p>
<p>I can only imagined how distraught you are. Good luck.</p>
<p>it was a "computer" input error and somebody messed up</p>
<p>they should also go through each and every transcript for each and every student immediately to make sure they are accurate, if yours was messed up, others may well have been also</p>
<p>dammit kyledavid, I wanted to be the first person to reference Orange County. That movie is, in my humble opinion, very underrated.</p>
<p>As for your situation, all you can do is write the schools. It isn't really your counselor's fault, she can't be expected to know what the transcripts for every student ought to look like, she isn't superhuman. However, you did get shafted and this is the time to snap into action. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I'd be tossing up the office and screaming hell at everyone until I get suspended. Even then, I wouldn't care. I'd bring my parents, and then they would toss up the office. Then I'll call a lawyer and sue for millions.</p>
<p>Your school needs to check every single transcript that was sent out. If yours was wrong, others may be too.</p>
<p>You're sure it was fine at the end of junior year? (I work for a school system, and have seen really strange stuff happen with underfunded and poorly maintained computer systems. Our hs had to re-issue report cards once last fall because they were all messed up. Then the server died, and they temporarily lost everyone's grades. When it came back up, all the data was 6 weeks old and teachers had to re-enter everything. Screw-ups do happen but your school needs to take responsibility ASAP and notify your colleges ASAP!!!)</p>
<p>I would definitely NOT be pleased if that happened to me. However, as good as it might feel, getting irritated about it won't be as helpful as being calm.</p>
<p>Here's what I would suggest:</p>
<p>Immediately call the admissions offices of the colleges you applied to, and explain the situation. Have your counselor do the same. Try to appeal the decisions. Get updated transcripts faxed out ASAP, and make sure you don't let up on the admissions offices until you speak to someone high enough in the office to understand exactly what's gone on who has the power to do something about it (whether that something is favorable or not).</p>
<p>Only after you've had some kind of resolution to the process should you get show your school your anger. At that point, I would suggest basically going on the warpath until 1) you get a full public apology, and 2) the school puts some kind of system into place (preferably mandatory transcript reviews or something) to ensure this doesn't happen again.</p>