Hey Can someone help me with this. I moved from Africa to US after finishing junior year. When I entered school, the international office which converts credits converted my credits correctly but made some of my classes on level and some honors. My old school was really hard and is internationally recognized, It has a CEEB code and comes up on common app.
The problem: My counselor says she can’t send two transcripts through naviance. I want the college to see my old transcript because it shows my rank and the classes I took correctly. How can I send both my old and new transcript?
Many of old classes are not on level; they are hard and demanding. How can the colleges I am applying to know my problem? And don’t I need to send transcripts from both my old school and my new school. By the time I apply, there won’t be new grades from my new school all freshman-junior grades but I feel like I will be Disadvantaged? WHAT U GUYS THINK? sorry if it’s long
Have your first school send its school profile (a statement of the school’s grading policies, curriculum, demographic served and overall academic standing according to governing criteria for that institution) as well as your transcript to the colleges.
The colleges will determine from the school profile what the rigor of your classes at your first school was, and they will make their own determination of the weighting of your classes, and overall GPA. They often disregard the GPA of your high school and re-calculate according to their criteria.
Definitely have your first school send your transcript and its school profile. You will need to provide mailing instructions for them to each college that you plan to apply to.
You should be able to go into Naviance/Common App and print a form which has in the header :
your name,
your date of birth,
your student information and Naviance/Common App ID,
as well as the specific college’s ID, in the header .
You should also see the name of the school you are currently enrolled in,
and the town in which that school is located,
as well as the year in which you will be graduated.
All of this should print in the header in fairly small, bolded print, in two lines running from the middle to the far right margin of the page.
If it all becomes too much, you should print this information out on sheets of paper, one per college, and send instructions to your first school to attach the sheet to the transcript and enclosures that you are asking for them to send to the colleges.