Is 'Cleaning' Your Transcripts Allowed?

I’m currently a Sophomore.

This year (as well as the last), I took several courses that I feel aren’t ‘necessary’ or ‘cluttered’ my transcripts.

For example, last year, I took Latin (against my will), and this year I had the opportunity to take French, so I switched over.

I dislike that Latin is still on my transcripts. It makes me feel like colleges will look down on me as a person lacking in commitment.

I’m striving to be a student with focused goals and related achievements, but my history as a student looks schizophrenic.

So are students allowed to erase certain classes on their transcripts so long as those courses aren’t required for graduation?

How in the world would you even ethically do that? Do you realize that your transcripts are not sent to colleges by you (they are sent directly from the high school) to prevent tampering, which seems to be what you are suggesting. You are seriously overthinking things.

I don’t want to add courses or change my grades. I’m content with my GPA. I just don’t like that I took so many unnecessary courses. I was going to ask my counselor about it, but I wanted to know if the question was silly or not before I did. Anyway, I don’t see how it’s unethical. Plenty of students participate in clubs, but then upon deciding that they don’t want to pursue those activities anymore, don’t put the fact they joined in the first place on their application.

The short answer is no. All classes you take are on your transcript.

Not even close to analogous. Regardless, no, you cannot clean your transcript. And doing so would be unethical.

Any further responses on this thread should be focused on whether “colleges will look down on me as a person lacking in commitment.” And my opinion as that they will not. One course will not look “schizophrenic.”

By steering clear of promoting ethical violations, we can keep the thread open.

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I’d also suggest that trying out different classes doesn’t equate to lacking commitment. It could show that you’re exploring your options to figure out what you enjoy studying or might like to pursue further in college.

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Short answer…NO.

No you can’t do it, and, no, schools won’t hold having tried out Latin against you. I’d strongly recommend that you don’t even bring it up to your guidance counselor as the last thing you want is to give them the impression that you are looking to somehow game the system.

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It’s simply not possible.
And there’s no need to even be concerned about it because colleges are not going to care.

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I understand. Thank you for the information. Although I really only provided my switching language classes as one example.

You can’t change anything on your transcript. What is…is. It doesn’t matter that the example you gave was the language class. Fact is…your transcript can not be changed.