<p>It turns out that dd's high school sent out midterm grades WITH AN ERROR -- ONE GRADE WAS LISTED AS B WHEN IT WAS A.</p>
<p>The teacher had given her the wrong grade and was supposed to correct it before the midterm grades went out, but didn't do it.</p>
<p>As of today, the teacher hadn't corrected it yet. </p>
<p>What do you think should be done? Should dd send a letter or fax or call or e-mail to the colleges telling them that they can expect a corrected transcript?</p>
<p>Or should we just let the high school send out the corrected transcript and leave it at that?</p>
<p>Would a letter be ok? Or would it be better to send a fax or e-mail? I think a letter is good because it would go in the file and be seen when reviewing the file, but since it will take more time to get there, that could be problematic.</p>
<p>My husband thinks I'm overreacting but I think that it changes the impression of the midterm grades and could affect both admission and financial aid.</p>
<p>We just had a similar situation -- a "missing" semester grade (due to a database problem) was reported in the GPA as a 0. Eek! DS had applied to a summer internship using this transcript.</p>
<p>He emailed the program, explained the problem, got a new transcript the next day and FedEx-ed it. The program coordinator had no problem with this and DS handled it himself. </p>
<p>Only parental freaking out was when we saw the problem. Solving it was easy; schools and programs realize these things happen all the time, esp. when transcripts are in sealed envelopes. </p>
<p>I asked DS what lesson he could leanr from this and his instant reply was, "Get an unofficial copy of the transcript to make sure it's correct before sending the official ones!" (Our school charges $3 for official, $1 for unofficial, which is identical, but not sealed.)</p>
<p>It's good for the kids to learn to handle these kinds of things themselves!</p>
<p>The whole problem should be fixed ASAP. There's not much time left. As adoffciers who blog show, they've begun reading apps. This is not the best time to teach kids how to handle things themselves.</p>
<p>I'd get on the case right away. Depending on your kid is not always the best thing to do in cases like that because the kid has to be in class. At our school, pass time was 3 minutes and lunch break was 20 minutes. Not enough time to go to the teacher, guidance counselor, etc.. assuming that they were where they were expected to be, in their home room or office.<br>
Much better for the parent to get hold of the GC and/or teacher and ask for the correction to be made pronto and the corrected material to be faxed immediately.</p>
<p>We had such a situation where we found that a teacher had miscalculated S's grade. I did not shilly-shally around. I called the teacher who realized right away that there was a mistake. By late morning, a corrected transcript was faxed.</p>
<p>On her her next to last 8th grade report card, DD received a grade that didn't jive with her test scores and homework assignment grades...this would affect where she was placed in H.S. DD wasn't going to, but I demanded that she see her teacher, who admitted the grade was wrong. We found out later the teacher had gotten her mixed up with a friend with a similar last name and given her a friend's grade and visa versa (she never changed the friend's grade, however).</p>