<p>For next semester, if you want to send midsemester reports, do you have to have it in by their app. deadline? our true "midsemester" is march 3, so technically i wouldnt be done until then...or, i could send them out that previous monday, hoping i dont have any huge tests (then again, if they could help me, i might as well) and they would get there either on or a day after the 1st...
how does this work??</p>
<p>Not any help to you, but how do you obtain official midsemester grades? The schools I'm applying to don't have forms, but I think sending them would really beneficial, yet I don't know how I could get them.</p>
<p>well, I know at my school there's like a form where you can get your grades, and the teacher just signs it, and puts grade and what they think of you.</p>
<p>but that form is specificially for people who have failed out of college once, and the advisors just want to make sure they're above the 2.0 drop off mark.</p>
<p>might be able to improvise?</p>
<p>I created my own forms, and I am damn sure they helped.</p>
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<p>How did you lay them out? I'll be needing a few, and in case my advisors don't give me the forms I want, I'll be making mine...</p>
<p>Yeah, nspeds--definitely tell us what you did. I'll make my own and get professors to sign off if that's truly what it takes.</p>
<p>I think what I'm going to do is have each professor write a letter saying "this is her current grade __<strong><em>, but there will/will not be a curve at the end, so the expected grade at the conclusion of the semester will be approximately _</em></strong>_" and then depending on whether or not i know them well, i'll also have them write a few sentences about me (its more recommendations without being official "recs" =) it might help) then have them sign and date the letters and seal them with tape and sign over the tape (to make them official) and then i'll either give them an addressed envelope or im thinking it will be easier to compile them and send them all at once</p>
<p>the only problem i find is that now the university will be dealing with 6 more pieces of paper for me...so i wish there was a way to compile them into one sheet, but be able to make it official...maybe go through my advisor? i guess this is one of those "just call the admission office" questions haha</p>
<p>Well, I used this as an opportunity to use my Indesign skills. Hah.</p>
<p>So I designed a nice template that mimicked the transfer application as close as possible. For the table, I had the professor right down his name in print, the mid-term grade, an optional comment, and a signature. I also made sure to list the course number and title next to every grade.</p>
<p>No, you don't have to have the midsemester report in by the app deadline, which can be impossible really if your mid-terms arent' done yet ;). Send them in as "supplements" after your mid-terms are done.</p>
<p>Some of the schools require prof initials on their mid-semester grade report (a kind of grid like nspeds designed, but without the comment section). Some allow you to self report. I don't believe any expect an official university-generated report.</p>
<p>As I recall, Cornell has one of the prof initial grid forms. You could download that one and copy it without the Cornell logo, or mimic it in something you design.</p>
<p>shoebox, I'm not sure your one sheet of paper per class would be welcome by the Admissions office, as you suspect. A one-page grid with prof initials gives them all they want. Your prof doesn't have to write a treatise about the curve etc. It's a mid-term "estimate", so ask the prof to estimate what your curved grade would be.</p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>If anything, it gives adcoms a reason to look at your file again.</p>
<p>jmmom- yeah i agree...i found it dumb to have 6 sheets of paper with a grade, some comments, and a signature...itd be the biggest waste of paper for me and time for the adm. office...i was just wondering how they view the validity of these if they arnt signed and sealed by each teacher and sent directly by them...</p>
<p>my biggest question is that: how does the university see the validity of these reports?</p>
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<p>It's called the honor system, and the fact that they see your final grades after you're admitted.</p>
<p>I just checked out the Cornell transfer midyear report, I'm just going to crop off the top with the Cornell ensignia--other than that, it's pretty generic.</p>
<p>yeah it just seems like kids could simply put down all As, sign for their professors, and then happen to get a few Bs or Cs for final grades....frankly, i think its easier to just work your butt off for a few weeks and not run into that kind of thing, but i dont know how colleges see the validity of these grades...i guess its a question for the specific college (but if they dont accept them im screwed)
i think ill just play with Adobe Illustrator and make up my own sheet =P yay</p>
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yeah it just seems like kids could simply put down all As, sign for their professors, and then happen to get a few Bs or Cs for final grades....frankly, i think its easier to just work your butt off for a few weeks and not run into that kind of thing, but i dont know how colleges see the validity of these grades...i guess its a question for the specific college (but if they dont accept them im screwed)
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<p>Yeah, it just seems like kids could simply put down all these magnificant and incredible ECs, submit the sheet, and then not really do those ECs at all. I don't know how colleges see the validity of these ECs...</p>
<p>(A reductio)</p>
<p>hahah good point nspeds...but ECs are obviously far less important than grades...also, big, important ECs that'd be the equivilent to As are the "cancer-curing wonders" or doing research overseas for a Noble prize winner, or venturing to Africa to work with starving kids for a month, and those can easily be checked...</p>
<p>i guess you're right, its pure honor</p>