<p>If one willingly does not send a transcript from a Junior/community college because they got a bad grade, will the school being applied to find out? In other words, does the school being applied to double check on the student's academic honesty by checking to see if they sent in all the transcripts from every institution the applicant had gone to?</p>
<p>If you withhold some transcripts from them, they definitely will find out.</p>
<p>Do community colleges also use the National Student Clearinghouse? If they do, then it is possible for a school to verify all the schools you attended in the past. </p>
<p>[National</a> Student Clearinghouse: Degree verification & enrollment verification](<a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/]National”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)</p>
<p>Edit: Some community colleges do, in fact, use this service.</p>
<p>Stephen, you have to list all the years that you’ve attended a certain institution. So if you want to leave out that you went to a certain college, the admissions officers will see a gap between your years of education. That, in and of itself, requires an explanation. So if you want to withhold your transcript, you either have to create a gap in your application (not beneficial), or list that you went to a college without sending in the transcript, in which case the admissions officers will then ask to see that transcript.</p>
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<p>Yes they do. The site lists all the schools that participate in the program.</p>
<p>If they wanted to check up on you to verify enrollment, then yes it is possible.</p>
<p>The point is that it’s never a good idea to lie on a college application, so be honest.</p>
<p>It’s a poorly publicized fact that colleges take into account past student loan debt when considering a financial aid package. If you have EVER filled out a FAFSA at another institution, your potential transfer college will see it.</p>
<p>Technically colleges can’t check up on grades that you don’t send to them directly (only you have the ability to do this) but they’re still going to wonder what the **** you were doing for those other semesters. I mean, this is a really stupid question…</p>
<p>^ Nothing else needs to be said after this.</p>
<p>Whenever you apply to any accredited college, university, or community college in the US you have to submit official transcripts from every single accredited college, university, and community college in the US that you have previously attended. If they admit you, and they don’t have your full records on file, they can lose their accreditation. Believe me, they take this very seriously.</p>
<p>Send the transcripts. The place you are applying to has seen worse before.</p>
<p>I was almost thrown out of a graduate program that I was halfway through when the university realized that one (yes 1) transcript was missing from my file. In fact, even after it was delivered to them, and recorded as arriving, they managed to lose it again and I had to have it sent again. We are talking about a 30 year old transcript for 8 undergraduate credits taken in summer school! When I asked why they cared, the registrar (not a filing clerk) himself told me that missing transcripts can mean lost accreditation. No college or university wants to lose accreditation, they’d rather lose a student (or potential student).</p>
<p>Send the transcripts. Then, call and make certain that they have actually arrived. Better yet, order several copies for yourself so that you can keep them on hand for the inevitable day when one (or more) goes missing.</p>
<p>I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this topic before.</p>