I have taken several courses at a local college in my junior and senior years, and I have received credit for all of those courses.
I know Stanford specifically states that they want college transcripts along with high school transcripts. Though, I don’t know about the other schools I am applying to. Should I send the college transcript to all my other schools too?
Great question, anyone know? Same for my D.
I think that it may be based on your high schools policy. However, my high school counselor told me that if a student were to enroll in a college class then that student would have to send a transcript from each of the colleges that he/she took classes from.
When DS applied a few years back I sent all dual enrollment transcripts. It cost a small fortune as I remember but it was worth it in the end.
Whenever a college that you apply or matriculate to asks for transcripts, send all applicable transcripts. This includes transcripts from colleges whose courses you took while still in high school.
@ucbalumnus , the colleges aren’t asking for the transcripts are they, if they just want to know about any college courses? Surely it’s okay to send transcripts once accpeted and matriculated?
Send the transcripts. Otherwise you might face “application incomplete” situation.
If a college wants transcripts at application time, it wants to know about your college courses taken while in high school as well as your high school courses, since they are part of your academic record up to then.
Colleges that only require transcripts at matricuation want you to self-report all college courses taken while in high school as well as high school courses.
Why would you want to hide your college courses taken while in high school anyway?
If I remember correctly, I didn’t send any college transcripts to schools that didn’t ask for them. (I wasn’t hiding anything because the courses and grades appeared on my high school transcript, even though I took them on a college campus.) You could email the admissions office and ask before you spend a lot of money sending the transcripts.
@ucbalumnus So, for the schools that I’ve self-reported grades for (UC Berkeley, U of Florida, and UIUC) I would not send any transcripts. And for all other schools that require transcripts, I should send them. Is that right?
I think it is best to just send them. It doesn’t cost any money.
And I’ve already sent high school transcripts to the schools that need them. The high school transcripts include my courses taken at the college.
In my original post I am only talking about the official transcript from my local college.
@ucbalmnus, who do the transcripts get sent to? The registrars office?
Yes, send them. It may actually benefit your application if you send them, but if you don’t your application may be incomplete. I am in a similar program and have sent my college transcripts. Send them to the undergraduate admissions office.
Thank you jellybean!
Yes, follow the instructions for each school with respect to sending (or not sending) transcripts.
To whomever the application instructions for the school tell you to send any transcripts required by the school.