<p>This is one question that has made me thinking a lot. If I am to transfer for the fall of 2007 and I am entering college as freshman this year, will my transcripts of the second semester reach the college when I apply? I mean, will the grades of the second semester be available before the application deadline? Or is there any other way that works?
I really am not proud of my high school record.</p>
<p>Your high school transcript will be sent. Also, most of the ultra-selective universities defer making decisions until they receive your spring grades. They usually want you to email/fax them as soon as they are available.</p>
<p>For Upenn the decision date is something like May 1 and the spring results wont be out then. But my college has a winter semester instead of spring. So how is it gonna work?</p>
<p>I can't agree with NDFreak's statement about ultra-selectives deferring decisions until they see spring grades. Here is the way it usually works:</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Your application is due around March 1-15. [</em>]You submit your hs transcript as well as your fall term college transcript, along with all of the other materials. [<em>]Some of the colleges (but not all) have a form for you to submit mid-term grade estimates from your spring term Freshman year. Some ask for your own estimates; some want initialed estimates from each professor.[</em>]The decision on your application will come as soon as a few weeks after your apply (rolling admission schools) and as late as the end of June.[<em>]Your acceptances will be conditioned upon your completion of the spring term successfully, with grades being substantially the same as what you submitted for fall/mid-term estimates (each school has its own wording for this.[</em>]When you say your school has a "winter" semester, do you mean you are on a quarter system? In that case, I would expect your initial application to contain your fall and winter quarter transcript, with the spring quarter grades to work as I described above.[/ul]</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>