<p>I sent cornell my transcript twice but it still says it has not been received on my status page. My guidance conselor refuses to fax it, im from Canada and she said her priorities are for students applying to Canadian schools. I have no idea what i can do. I do not want to be automatically rejected but i dont think i have time to send cornell my transcript for a third time.</p>
<p>Wow...great guidance counselor lol</p>
<p>Why can't you fax it yourself? Well, first call in and see if they have it. Sometimes, the offices have it but they just didn't update it in their online system yet.</p>
<p>yousonofatree: It's unethical for a student to fax a transcript. Making no assumptions specifically of coriface, some students could seize the opportunity to forge grades and misrepresent themselves, so the schools want an official copy sent from the school's fax number with a signature/stamp of an official.</p>
<p>yeah come on, coriface, you know what happened. you know better</p>
<p>Did you send it yourself?? OF COURSE cornell won't take it, you could have used photoshop or something to rearrange the grades. You could have made up a phony transcript. Cornell sees your own envelope, your address, no seal, no signature, maybe a stamp that says "UNOFFICIAL transcript" on there. What is Cornell gonna think? The thought of forging transcript probably never came into your mind, but the school can't take in a document with a shado of doubt.</p>
<p>looking back, I didn't even consider doing it but i could have if i want. my public high school transcript format is pretty LAME: excel made doc on plain non-security paper, all reg black ink, only a signature required. I have heard of students scanning their transcripts in and erased those "F"s with software and replaced em with A's and forged a school clerk's signature, sealed in an envelope, dropped in school's OUTBOX and had USPS guy stamp the postage with school address/zip. I mean those kids got straight Fs, D's and some how ended up with A and Bs and got into college??!!?! </p>
<p>I don't have 100% evidence and feel sorry for some, or else I 'd get them kicked out of School!</p>
<p>I know a college kid from a foreign country who made up his entire transcript with Excel, stole a stamp, gave himself all As and B's and high test scores and then "bribed" his way past into a graduate program. What's up with that?</p>
<p>Ask your school official to send it.</p>
<p>wow....I never thought about it like that. Good point. However, I still stand by my point of calling them to see what's going on.</p>
<p>yousonofatree: you never thought about it like that because you don't think like a criminal. </p>
<p>I'm NO criminal or "cheater" (at least academic cheater) either, but after surviving four years of public, innercity, ghetto ****ty juvie-hall styled high school that is actually modeled after a jail house designed by an architect who specializes in state prison buildings... </p>
<p>I know what some kids are up to! They can ask friends forging "idiot proof docs", impersonate teachers, write their own letters of recommendations and then have the audacity of signing the letters in teacher's names. They can pull strings and create phony phone-numbers emails and putting them on letter of recs. They steal tests routinely, and the idiots can't even earn good marks with the pre-knowledge of the test questions. Heck, they steal anything from school letter heads to official stamps. They can then cheat their way through college, grad school, law/med schools airline pilot training programs, MD-PhD's, and earn millions. Some did. It reminds me of the guy (Frank Abagnale) from Catch me If you Can. </p>
<p>They had the guts of recruiting smart kids like me to help them cheat on test. They showed me a bunch of questions that they actually stole from teachers. I had my suspicions, but out of fear of being beaten up and dumped in a sewer, I.. i...
did it only once.</p>
<p>coriface you're a good kid since you obviouslyl don't think like a criminal either. apply yourself. If your guidance guy refuses to send your things to Cornell thru your high school, go to your principal, complain, they should get you through.</p>
<p>Btw, I'm glad Cornell is strict in accepting and managing students' records and uses nices things as stamps, seals, signatures etc, safe-guards a dozen times tighter than some high school and foreign universities in regard to student's records.</p>
<p>When I become rich and have kids, I'll send my children to private schools or really really good public ones.</p>
<p>^wow hyp86, your school is intense.</p>
<p>...and I thought I was a rebel when I forged by dad's signiture on a permission slip!</p>