<p>I am filling out the common application form on Naviance and along with asking me to waive my rights to see recommendations, it is asking me to give consent to my highschool to release information covered under FERPA.
I am using score choice for my applications and wish to keep my other scores undisclosed from the colleges to which I am applying. Therefore, I am wondering if my school can disclose my test scores if asked for by colleges after giving consent to disclose documents covered by FERPA.</p>
<p>they can. But your transcripts are covered under FERPA too, thus the waiver. The best way to prevent this from happening is by not sending your scores to your HS in the first place. </p>
<p>Are your test scores placed on your transcripts?</p>
<p>FERPA prevents revealing everything in your records except identification info such as name and address unless you consent otherwise. If you request high school to send transcript you are deemed to have consented to sending whatever information the school usually provides on the transcript. If you do not consent to a waiver with common app, no transcipt and no part of any transcript will be provided for the common app. The issue of removing scores from your transcript before it is sent (to common app or any college) is something you must take up with your high school, not common app/Naviance.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that my school doesn’t release scores on the transcripts, but it doesn’t matter as I need to still accept these terms for the common app anyway correct?</p>
<p>What you are accepting by the waiver is that the transcript can be provided to common app/Naviance so it can further provide it to colleges. They don’t care one way or the other whether your test scores are on the transcript. That particular waiver does not prevent you from first checking with your high school to see if it puts all scores on the transcript and, if it does, requesting that it leave scores off the transcript provided to common app/Naviance. In other words, the particular waiver with common app does not determine the issue. You should first be going to your high school to resolve any issue. If your high school does not put scores on your transcript (likely majority still do) you have no issue because the only thing common app wants is the transcript. So check with your high school before finishing the common app.</p>
<p>exactly what drusba said. I will warn you, that there are other threads on CC about schools that do still put test scores on the transcripts, and their schools would not remove them prior to sending to colleges. </p>
<p>So first find out if your school even has the test scores on your transcripts. If they do not, this is not an issue. As a general rule, you should know everything that is on your transcripts. Some schools even put AP scores on transcripts and send to colleges. So make sure you know that too. </p>
<p>If they do include test scores on transcripts, find out if they will remove the scores prior to sending them. If they will, make that request in writing, with a confirmation from them. But understand that many schools send the transcripts electronically now, and they may send the scores anyway. The computer will just pull the standard form. </p>
<p>Make sure that they do not send some strange addendum that includes scores they have either. If they to, ask them not to include the addendum. </p>
<p>If the scores are in your records, find out if there is a way to petition to have the scores removed from the records. At least until you finish applying to schools and have sent the mid year updates. </p>
<p>The only way to really assure that the scores are not sent by your HS is to not send scores from your testing to the school in the first place. IF you do not give them the scores, they can not include them. And they can not get them from the testing entity without you marking the HS info on the testing form.</p>
<p>Got you. My councilor said they do not send the scores at all to colleges I am responsible and they are not shown anywhere unless I send through college board so that clears it up. HOWEVER, she informed me today that she will not put my rank (currently number One) on my transcript, just that I’m in the top half. I am very angry with this. How bad will this hurt me? And should I try to beat her (jk just force) into putting it on there? I know I am number one, in fact I believe, according to naviance, I have the highest school GPA from the past decade of Val’s.</p>