NYU TRANSCRIPTS and ED AGREEMENT....HELP!!

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<p>Ok, so I am on winter break and I am applying to NYU ED 2. I haven't submitted my app and supplements but I am doing so today. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten my counselor to sign my ED agreement because apparently she can't do so until I submit my app. She said she won't check her e-mail over the break but will check it on the 3rd, the day we go back to school...but that's after the Jan 1 deadline. Will NYU accept this as long as my app, supplements, and teacher recommendations have been in?</p>

<p>Also, I haven't sent in my transcripts yet through my school, and I went to do it yesterday but the lady said she wouldn't do it until we got back to school on Jan. 3rd, so those are going to be late also and I'm really worried!! However, my counselor did submit the secondary school report a couple of months ago, which I thought was sort of considered the same as a transcript. I know that Fordham U says the secondary school report is sufficient and that they do not need separate transcripts as well, but is NYU the same?? If not, am I screwed because I won't be able to send them in until Jan 3 when the deadline is the 1st and I'm doing ED 2?? help :(</p>

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<p>nyuhopeful,</p>

<p>This holiday break for high school personnel and office staff is a real pain, isn’t it? Coming at such a critical time with the deadline looming for ED 2 people.</p>

<p>It appears to me that your hands are tied at this point regarding the counselor’s signing of the ED 2 agreement and sending in of your official transcript. You really can do nothing at this point about these matters because the high school staff have taken off.</p>

<p>Let me say here that, yes, your official transcript is REQUIRED at NYU along with the secondary school report (true also for many other colleges). So you do have to send in the transcript as soon as possible.</p>

<p>Now, given all that, I would urge you to call the NYU undergraduate office asap this coming week, preferably Monday, to discuss the dilemma you are in and have them give you the official word on whether or not your application will be disregarded based on this.</p>

<p>BEFORE YOU REACT IN PANIC, I really doubt NYU Admissions will penalize you for a known official national vacation period where academic people are known to disappear.
You are talking about the difference of a couple of days for the counselor’s signature on the ED 2 agreement.</p>

<p>The bigger issue, maybe, is the timeliness in sending in your official transcript. Your school did not help you by not informing and making sure seniors make their transcript requests at least 2-3 weeks before the deadline for the college’s receipt of the transcript (I am assuming this is the case and not just your own negligence). My son’s guidance office had strict time frames for these requests and will actually not send in any more transcripts after an official cut-off period. And they meant it, because some students who delayed their transcript requests could not apply to some colleges of choice because of their lateness in contacting and submitting transcript request forms to guidance.</p>

<p>So, you need to find out if your guidance office can speed up the process. But that is still likely to take days with the mail. So just be prepared to let NYU Admissions know this when you contact them MONDAY (my advice). That the earliest you can request the transcript will be 1/3/11 and it may very well take say another few days or longer to get to NYU depending on where you live. </p>

<p>My own sense is that most of your other critical materials will be in by the ED 2 deadline of 1/1/11. I think you should be OK IF you communicate with NYU Admissions and have them document 1) your attempts to get the missing materials to them before the deadline and 2) your inability to meet the deadline for completing and/or submitting two of the documents required due to lack of availability of services from your high school guidance office during the prolonged holiday period. Make sure they know that all other parts of the application to be completed by you (and under your control) will be submitted by 1/1/11.</p>

<p>Then I think this should work out to be a non-issue. Especially if you communicate and even request to speak to an Admissions supervisor if the person who first answers your phone call at NYU Admissions office is not cooperative or is overly negative (worst case scenario and I do not expect it).</p>

<p>Sorry for the lengthy response to what probably will not be “not a problem” in the end.</p>

<p>GL!</p>

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<p>Thank you soo much for taking the time out to respond, I really appreciate it, have a great holiday :D</p>

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<p>I don’t think it will be a problem. I applied early decision I and they gave me two weeks to send in my transcripts, scores, recs, etc.
Good luck, hopefully I’ll see you there! :)</p>

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<p>Oh great! That’s really good to hear, thank you! and Congratulations!!! :)</p>

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<p>You should call the Admissions Office this Monday! Usually schools let you send in transcripts, scores later than the application deadline. You just need to send in your application (Common APP) in time.</p>

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<p>I definitely will call, thanks :)</p>