Obviously this would depend on each college’s admissions office. But in general, since students are evaluated in the context of the educational system that they have studied in, an international (because of visa status) student who has been educated in the US is likely to be evaluated along with other internationals who have also been educated here.
So I talked to my new counselor and she said once a school report, recom, transcripts are submitted they can’t take Unsubmit it. She told me how could he send it even though he knew you were leaving. The solution she gave me was that since colleges require school reports from the school you are attending she has to send another copy through naviance and inform them of the 2 reports coming their way. I think that is a good solution right for that problem. She was busy yesterday so I could not get to the recommendation problem. But I think it will be the same soln. She will inform of the recommendations from the old school and I hope she doesn’t have to write me new recommendations.
@Joniman, if I understand correctly:
you were enrolled as a senior at another school, (perhaps because you lived in a country where August is Winter Term, not Summer vacation??); then your mother was transferred to a job in the US, so you followed along, left the school you’d been enrolled in, and started at a new, US school, where you were placed in 12th grade based on previous grade placement. You’ve now been at that school for about 6 weeks, have a new guidance counselor, and are worried your old records and recommendations will be discarded and replaced with a generic “I vaguely know this transfer student whom I’ve met once, he was polite” recommendation.
DOES THAT REPRESENT YOUR SITUATION ACCURATELY?
In that case, the counselor you had in August was your counselor, and now the new counselor needs to pick up where the old one left off, so that the report submitted while you were technically a student in your country and not enrolled at the new school would cover 9-11th grade, and the new report, which will be called MID YEAR REPORT, will come from the new counselor and will cover 12th grade at the US school.
Your “old” counselor should send his recommendation to your new counselor (not through you but directly) so that the new counselor can either confirm or infirm the information contained in the old counselor’s review. For instance (not real) if the old counselor wrote you were polite and punctual, and at your new school you’re always 15mn late and mouth off consistently then it’d be noted. Obviously any inconsistency between your “old” and your “new” counselor would raise red flags, ie., if your old counselor said you were the smartest he’s met in 10 years and now you barely get C’s in all your classes. However if your new counselor saw that your old counselor’s letter described you well, s/he would be able to reinforce that in the midyear report.
In all cases, you need to go see your guidance counselor and explain the situation in a manner that is clear to US school officials (you might use my paragraph 1 if it accurately represents your situation).
Actually, I was enrolled at that school but it was summer time and he was teaching summer school so I went to the school regularly to get things finished before other people come hording to me because we have only 1 counselor.
I was not a senior at my old school. I just finished my junior year and wanted my.CA done as fast as possible
Maybe you should take your new counselor’s advice into account. After all, that was the recommendation from common app right?
Yea I will. Is this also a solution: I can change my common app account to have a fake name, address, nationality, parents, email, phone no, first year to transfer year… and all the other stuff so that I can make a new common app account and start everything fresh. I also have a A1(diplomat) visa meaning I have no social security, or atleast they didn’t ask me. How can common app trace my old account to my new one if I made a new one? Is this a viable soln? My counselor would be relieved and she also has no problem with it (I talked to her). Is there any way they can find out I made 2 accountz? Thanks
Anyone?
OK, now you’re pulling our leg. (That’s American for, “get real.”)
I will just repost a comment from @NavalTradition (post #3!!!) “To even consider this displays a serious lack of judgement, if not character.”