<p>Your experience D’yer (although I didn’t know about it until just now) is EXACTLY why I have asked - and will ask again - to see exactly what is being sent to the secondary schools in terms of the “transcript.” If it does include any comments or info that may need explaining, we can do so in the application and/or ask that recommendations do so. </p>
<p>I don’t know about “off the cuff” comments, but I do know that some of my son’s mid-term comments were quite harsh in terms of his effort. Reading those would do serious damage to his application, although by the end of the term, he would almost always pull it together.</p>