My High School screwed up my transcript they sent out!!

<p>So I'm not going to tell everything about myself, but I was the top of the high school, very good activities and scores type of person but didn't get the greatest result in admisssions.
I was feeling down, but accepted it.
Then, I saw my transcripts today and saw that my high school added a terrible sat score that I had never taken!!
It was really bad and colleges would have thought that I got those terrible scores...
What do I do?
My high school basically ruined my life... :(</p>

<p>If you’re willing, you should email the schools and tell them there was a mistake on your transcript that materially may have affected their decision. If you were “on the bubble” for any of those and was “barely” rejected, they may re-open your file. Good luck.</p>

<p>I kinda doubt your school transcript had anything to do with rejections. Colleges don’t get your SAT scores from your transcripts, they get them when you tell the friendly folks at the College Board to forward your scores in exchange for your payment.</p>

<p>They don’t look at your SAT scores on your transcript, only what they get from CB.</p>

<p>^ Second previous two posters. High school transcripts are sometimes unreliable (some of them leave stuff out, mix scores up, etc.), so the colleges just went with the score reports they received from the College Board.</p>

<p>so they don’t even look at the transcripts?
What I heard was that they use the transcripts to compare the scores and see if the students are being honest with their scores.</p>

<p>That’s what the official CollegeBoard score reports are for. The reports take precedence over everything else when it comes to test scores.</p>

<p>Might as well talk to your counselor about it. As previous posters have said, they look at the CB reports, but you never know.</p>

<p>This is why SAT scores should NOT be on a high school transcript. The student signs up for it, pays for it and takes it. It should be the students responsibility, not the schools to forward SAT scores to colleges. Most guidance offices are overwhelmed and mistakes are definetly going to happen. There were many horror stories from my son’s school last year. Be involved. Always ask for a copy of your transcript BEFORE they are being sent out by guidance.</p>

<p>I want to second kleibo, strongly, about getting a copy of your transcript and checking it before it goes out. D had multiple significant errors in her transcript which she discovered in October of senior year. Due to repeated miscommunication between the teacher and registrar at her school, the transcript wasn’t fixed until March, despite verbal assurances on multiple occasions by both parties that the problem was resolved. Luckily, because D kept checking the actual transcript, she knew it hadn’t been corrected. She was able to get hand-generated corrections to the schools in time.</p>

<p>Moral of this story: Check your transcript before it goes out. Recheck it after each quarter. Do not accept assurances from well-meaning but over-burdoned admin at your school that things have been ‘taken care of.’ Ask to see the actual transcript!</p>

<p>This happens to too many students every year. Don’t be one of them.</p>

<p>Well, I really don’t think that never-existed-SAT score can affect your admission result because they are not official. And you really should feel lucky that your school didn’t screw up your High School Grade</p>

<p>I think you should contact the colleges and tell them. It certainly can’t do any harm at this point. Did you have SAT scores sent directly? If (for example) you only sent ACT scores, it’s possible (but still unlikely) that the erroneous SAT score hurt you somewhere.</p>

<p>A few years ago my son was in a very similar situation. The errors on his transcript were discovered just before decisions from colleges were announced. Our high school resent his transcript. I don’t think that it really made any difference because his self reported scores matched the official collegeboard scores.</p>

<p>I would ask your high school to resend the transcripts with an explanation attached. I wouldn’t get my hopes up about any changes in decisions but it can’t hurt to try. Good Luck!</p>

<p>It’s not going to help with college admissions, but it sounds to me like you might have grounds for a lawsuit against your school.</p>

<p>I’d consult an attorney.</p>