I got one school came to me asking for 6th grade transcript. Another school asked me a few days ago. For the rest of schools, they said my application is complete. But now I started to worry, would they come to me to ask for 6th grade transcript too? Should I ask my school to send to them even if they didn’t ask?
The reason for my complication is that my middle school is 7-8th grade. So my 6th grade is in my elementary school. GATE only allows submit one person for the transcript request so I didn’t submit my elementary school contact.
How much weight 6th grade grades carry in the application? Thinking whether other applicants actually all summited 6th grade as they’re 6-8th grade middle school in which case whether the admission officer would think I deliberately hided 6th grade scores which I did not. I had good scores in 6th grade too.
The other reason I hesitate to send the transcript request at this point is that it is kind of late so maybe school would view negatively that we send in the materials so late.
Thank you so much for any thoughts!
If the confirmation emails say that applications are complete, then they’re complete. That’s all there is to it. Don’t even bother sending 6th grade transcripts to the schools that didn’t ask (the schools that I applied to only asked for 7th and 8th grade transcripts).
For the other schools, submit them as soon as possible. If I were you, I would email the AOs of those schools about your situation.
Thank you very much! That really helps. I’ve attached an email letter to the admission office (the general admission email) explaining the situation. When you say AO, do you mean the AO who interviewed me? I haven’t emailed them about that but I suppose they will see in my file once the administrative assistant at the admission office upload the documents.
and this is for Prep school?
@Jane90 Some schools ask for 6th grade; many (most of ours last year) don’t. We were in a different district for my DD2 6th grade so it involved a separate request too. Because my DD2 grades were strong in a very strong district for 6th grade and we are in a relatively unknown district now, we did decide to have them emailed to all schools, just to show that she was an A student in more than just our tiny district. Who knows if some schools just ignored the 6th grade transcript or not. (My experience is that admissions folks are happy to add something that helps them see the narrative better, whether “required” or not…within reason – no sending multiple extra recommendations or a bunch of extra random “stuff” of course.)
That said, if they didn’t ask for 6th grade (and many schools do not), I don’t think one tiny bit that you need to send them. And I think really you might be overthinking it to worry about sending late, them thinking you are hiding anything, etc etc… Schools are absolutely in their gathering of the details phase so sending now a straggling transcript is not “late” or problematic or a red flag of any sort.
The ideal situation was that your 7-8 school would have bundled your 6th grade transcript (which they had received as part of schools records when you changed schools) and submitted it as one file for Gateway. This is one what the very experienced woman at our public school did. And it was a good thing one person was competent in the chain because I personally had to supply those records when my son went there because our old charter charter had lost half! Of his permanent grades and test scores. Apparently this sort of request is not so unusual. But I only figured this out because she offered and knew to do it.
So don’t beat yourself up but do request transcripts for the schools that require it.
Thank you all for the very helpful responses!!!