<p>My son has done something that is really weird and making me lose sleep at night. He has a low GPA but he badly wanted it to be a bit higher. He has become very friendly with someone in the Registrar's office. They are asking him to bring an unofficial transcript which they will use to create an official transcript. The transcript will be issued as an official document, of course. He has carefully changed his grades in the unofficial transcript to boost his GPA to 3.6, while it should be 3.0. He argues that he is not doing anything illegal because the official transcript will have the changed grades. In other words, he is going to make the grade changes official. I know he is taking a big risk here, but what can I tell him?</p>
<p>You’re the parent here. I can’t believe you knowingly let him do this. This is unethical on so many levels. Not only is it unfair to himself, the registrar, and all the students in the WORLD that have worked hard to maintain their good grades, it’s probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.
- If he’s only changing the GPA and not all of the semester grades, it’s going to look very suspicious if the GPA is a 3.6 yet there are a lot more B’s and a couple of C’s than A’s on the transcript.
- He’s going to get caught, because people aren’t as stupid as he seems to think they are.
- Whatever colleges/universities that he’s applying to WILL find out, and they WON’T want a cheater like your son at their school. At this rate he’d have a very hard time getting into even a community college.</p>
<p>Your job as a parent is to raise your kid up right. Do you think you’ve taught him the right values, by letting him do such a thing as change his transcript?</p>
<p>He deserves to get rejected from every college he applies to and also blacklisted for cheating.</p>
<p>Tell him that all actions have consequences, something he should have been allowed to experience before now, and that you will not throw one penny out of the window for college, because, in the unlikely event that he is accepted, you will lose the money when someone finally figures out that he is unethical and unable to compete in a level playing field.</p>
<p>If he badly wanted his GPA to be higher, he shoulda’ worked harder in his classes.</p>
<p>And I am betting that falsifying records and tampering with the school’s record-keeping system IS illegal. Go ahead and let him do it - you can use his college fund to pay for the lawyers…</p>
<p>This has to be a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Obviously, people here in this forum are naive and probably not tuned in to what is happening in China.</p>
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<p>Transcript alteration is one of the most common forms of fraud among applicants, especially for undergraduate programs. Agents themselves do not usually recommend this action in order to avoid legal responsibility. However, once a client obtains the school’s consent, an agent sometimes makes specific changes in order to meet the GPA (grade point average) requirements of the schools the student is applying to. After the changes are made, the parents have the schools notarize the documents.</p>
<p>“Schools almost always notarize them because you’re going to study abroad. They’re very willing to help. What school would want to make it difficult for you to do this,” said Ms. Chen from China Education International, another application consultancy that is also accredited by AIRC.</p>
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