<p>My guidance counselor told me that all I needed to do was fill out the grade and course section on the application. No transcript would go with the application?<br>
Is this a way to deal with less paperwork. I was also told that they look at the self-reported grades, accept you/or not, and at the end of the year ask for transcript. If your grades dont match up your automatically rejected after acceptance? help me make some sense out of all of this.</p>
<p>Yeah, UCs don't want transcripts until they accept you. You have to be REALLY careful when you enter your grades/courses into the application online because there were a few people at my school who made mistakes last year and got their admissions revoked because the self-reported grades didn't match the transcript grades. :(</p>
<p>Your counselor is correct. Basically, the colleges will base their decisions upon the grades YOU reported to them. HOWEVER, once they receive your transcript at the end of the year, they will then compare it to the grades you reported to them. Most colleges are lenient and will let one or two mis-reported grades go by, but don't expect that to happen with cutthroat colleges (Cal, UCLA, UCSD, etc). Those colleges will retract their acceptance decisions at the first sight of a grade discrepency. So don't let your finger slip and type "A" when you actually got a "B"!</p>
<p>So, theoretically, i could change all my grades to A's and get a Cal/LA acceptence letter. Then get revoked and banned for eternity from the UC system. :)</p>
<p>I thought they look at your ranking?</p>
<p>well theres no place to put ranking on the application? hmm</p>
<p>ranking is used more by private schools. uc's use ranking to weed out the top 4% and after that it really doesn't matter.</p>