<p>It is my understanding that all colleges and universities are able to look up your high school and obtain all of the relevant facts and figures for your high school. Through what system or company is this done? If I want to see my high school's official profile that the colleges are seeing, how do I go about that? I know my high school has a 6-digit school code through the College Board. Is this how the high school profiles are viewed by colleges? Before I write my essays, I want to know exactly what every college knows about my high school. Thank you.</p>
<p>It’s something provided by your school. Ask your GC for a copy if it’s not already online on your school website.</p>
<p>The high school profile is provided along with the school report by the GC. The GC’s letter also contains info like how many APs IBs offered by the school, highest gpa in the class etc to put your application in context. As MrMom said ask your GC or guidance office for a copy.</p>
<p>Some high schools have their profile available on-line. Here are two examples:
<a href=“http://www.bls.org/ourpages/auto/2013/5/24/55204166/2013-14%20BLS%20Profile.pdf”>http://www.bls.org/ourpages/auto/2013/5/24/55204166/2013-14%20BLS%20Profile.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://stuy.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/3/7/37096823/Stuyvesant%20Profile%202013-2014.pdf”>http://stuy.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/3/7/37096823/Stuyvesant%20Profile%202013-2014.pdf</a></p>
<p>To be honest, none of these responses make sense. If I apply to a college back East and I live in New Mexico, my school’s GC isn’t going to send anything to that college. The admissions department for the college back East is able to look up my high school through some online system. Colleges are not having to contact all of the high schools of the students who apply and ask the schools for their profiles. There is some common network or system for this. I’ve seen the types of profiles that gibby posted before, but high schools must be posting those profiles in some national database for colleges to look up easily. College admission departments don’t have the time or resources to request these types of high school profiles from thousands of high schools each year. There is a piece of the puzzle missing.</p>
<p>College admission departments don’t have to request anything. Along with your application, the college will receive the school profile from your guidance department. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense to you, but that’s the way it works. There is no data base.</p>
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No there isn’t – that’s because there isn’t one standard high school profile form; every high school creates their own and includes data that they feel is important to best describe what their school offers and their graduates. Your guidance counselor uploads your high school profile ONE TIME as a pdf on the Common Application. It is then sent to all colleges when your guidance counselor uploads your transcript. Ask your GC for a copy, as that’s the only way you are going to get it if your school doesn’t have their profile available for download on their website!</p>
<p>Maybe this will help to convince you that there isn’t one big database of school profiles. This link is from The Common Application School Forms Help section: <a href=“http://s3.parature.com/link/portal/5494/5525/Article/635/I-would-like-to-upload-an-updated-School-Profile”>http://s3.parature.com/link/portal/5494/5525/Article/635/I-would-like-to-upload-an-updated-School-Profile</a></p>
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In addition to your high school profile, your guidance counselor must upload each student’s transcript into the Common Application and complete a Secondary School Report (SSR) on each student. (Here’s the paper version of that form from several years ago: <a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf</a>). Then, when your school’s mid-year senior grades are ready, your guidance counselor must upload every student’s mid-year report into the Common Application and send that to all colleges on every student’s college list. And finally, when every student decides what college they are going to attend, your GC must upload each student’s final transcript into the Common Application and send that to college for every student in your school. So you see, your guidance counselor DOES send lots of material to colleges for every student in your school. It’s a huge, thankless job . . . and you didn’t even know they did it!</p>
<p>Wow. I didn’t know that the GC had to upload information to the common application system. Your explanation is very good. Thank you!</p>
<p>You invite your counselor and recommendation writers to upload your transcript and recommendations by sending them an email through the Common App by completing the below information</p>
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<p>Strictly speaking the HS profile is not a “requirement” and the college is not going to ‘request’ anything if its missing. It is to your own and your school’s advantage to include it to provide credibility and context to the rest of your app. If its missing they wont notify you and you are right, they certainly will not waste their time looking for it on websites.
Don’t forget people apply from all over the world( farther than New Mexico) and many different educational systems. There’s no common website. And yes, your GC is a huge part of the puzzle, from start to finish. </p>