<p>Hello- my d is a current freshman. Am I the only parent who has not yet received a copy of her grades from the first semester? I called Princeton and they said they do mail them out to parents and that it should be coming soon. Can someone in the know tell me how this works, please?</p>
<p>In my experience, it takes a lonnggg time for my grades to reach my parents - I just call them up and let them know what I got.</p>
<p>I remember it was really late into spring term before they arrived (March or April?). and spring term grades came in the middle of summer. Best to just ask your DD.</p>
<p>received grades yet either.</p>
<p>I actually thought you did not get them. That is, if they were sent home it was to the student’s home of record to the student not the parents. All the privacy stuff. My D told me, have no reason to not believe her.</p>
<p>Yes, hikids, I’m surprised that Princeton mails them to parents. Under the guidelines of FERPA, they are not obliged to and in fact may not even be allowed to unless the student ok’s it. Parents may not ever get to see them. They get mailed to your D or S, not to you. </p>
<p>See here: [Family</a> Educational Right to Privacy Act.](<a href=“http://epic.org/privacy/education/ferpa.html]Family”>http://epic.org/privacy/education/ferpa.html)</p>
<p>Actually, I recall one of the things signed as part of matriculation was the authorization to send grades to parents. Regardless, there also still hasn’t been anything sent to my D at her home address either.</p>
<p>The online Princeton Parents Handbook (princeton.edu) states that normally Fall grades are mailed out in early February. Historically, they have been late. As Pipmom states above, your student had to have signed the form to allow them to be released to you.</p>
<p>We have not, either. My son told us his grades.</p>