<p>Tomorrow is the deadline for Berklee early action and we have submitted everything. As S is a homeschooler, we also followed exactly what the website and emails from the college said: transcript (up through now - he's still taking his 12th grade classes, so I included those with his current grade), detailed course descriptions, textbooks used, and a portfolio of examples of work. I also included his 1-page from his press kit.
So tonight we look at his status and it says admissions has reviewed our supporting material (I also checked usps and the certified/tracking info said they received everything today), but under "Outstanding Items" partial high school transcript is listed. Is this because of 12th grade not being finished, do you think? I am all in a panic as tomorrow is the deadline and I can't think what more I could possibly send. I did a 2-4 page detailed course description for 9th through 12th grades, with multiple textbooks, etc. I included 3 writing samples, 2 math samples, 1 chemistry, and a history paper.
I don't know if I can sleep tonight until I can call tomorrow and ask what they mean! Does anyone have any clue?</p>
<p>I doubt that the fact that 12th grade is not finished would be the reason for the partial high school transcript being listed as outstanding. After all, the reason it is a partial transcript is that grade 12 has not been completed.</p>
<p>It takes schools quite a bit of time to update what they have received; they get so much material that it takes several days to process everything (or sometimes two or three weeks before it is listed as received). As well, errors do occur, so most schools are very forgiving about the supporting documentation timelines.</p>
<p>While most of the schools we dealt with seemed very strict about getting the actual application and money in by the due date (I recall applications being rejected because of a time-zone misunderstanding: midnight at the school, not in California), many schools seemed willing to accept a late document or two. I wouldn’t sweat this one–you’ve sent in the transcript. If they don’t like your transcript, I’m sure they will tell you why. The person in admissions may not be familiar with home-schooled students and perhaps didn’t recognize your submission as a transcript since it will look much different from an institutional school’s transcript.</p>
<p>Don’t lose any sleep. I know I lost some worrying that things wouldn’t go right, and, in fact, many things did go wrong (blizzards, several missed connections, lost hotel reservation, getting lost in a Cleveland ghetto with drug-addled homeless people banging on the rental car, audition time moved ahead 30 minutes resulting in no warmup, secretarial blunder regarding another audition time that resulted in having only a 2-minute rehearsal with the accompanist in which she played more wrong notes than right ones) but ultimately everything worked out well (the accompanist played near flawlessly on stage, got out of the ghetto with no damage to body or car, . . .).</p>
<p>Also, schools in Boston were closed for a day or two due to the storm, and Berklee may even extended its deadline because of it.</p>
<p>Thanks ya’ll. Violindad, I am not sure whether I feel better or slightly more panicked after reading your reply! lol – Sounds like you had some, er, rather frustrating (and frightening) escapades. I do feel somewhat better, though, to know they may accept whatever they think they need after the deadline. And woodwinds, I wondered about that, too, if the storm may have extended things.
I did some more research (because I am losing sleep!) and found even though their website doesn’t say so, they may want “evidence we met graduation requirements” – if that is true, I am lost, as GA doesn’t oversee anything except attendance. To graduate, the parent makes the determination that every goal is met. For us, we simply used the public school credit requirements and then added 2 more classes, so instead of the req. 24 credits, he has 26.
He already received his audition date and time, though.
I guess I should console myself with the thought that at least we aren’t going to Cleveland??? 
---- Thank you both for your help!</p>
<p>For those who might run across this same problem later, I wanted to post what happened. I called and spoke to the admissions folks (son was busy with the composition scholarship deadline!). Although according to the post office tracking of the certified mail, they received the packet yesterday, it was merely a coincidence they had updated his status to reflect they had reviewed his application and materials and still needed his transcript. In actuality his packet was still probably in the mail room and no one had seen it. I was assured that the information I sent was no doubt more than plenty for the supporting material requirement. Whew. Thank you to woodwinds and violindad. And now that we’ve done this first school, I think the others will go much easier.</p>
<p>I found it was always a good idea to call and check after things had been submitted. It seemed like, more often than not, something had gone astray at the admissions office, particularly at places where the main application went to the university with supporting or additional materials being sent to the music school/department. </p>
<p>We also had the experience of an audition time being changed, with the only notice being the list on the professor’s door. </p>
<p>The lessons we learned were don’t wait until the last minute to submit things, check and double check everything, and show up early for stuff, just in case. </p>
<p>You’ll get through it!</p>