<p>I don’t know about my parent’s college diplomas, but my mom threw her HS diploma away. I never went to to pick up my high school diploma, and I’ll probably just keep my college diploma in storage somewhere. My family is just not sentimental about these sorts of tokens.</p>
<p>“Unless you’re in one of those fields where people post their diplomas on their office walls, it’s a pretty useless document. What counts is your transcript, and even that only counts for the first few years of your career or if you seek further education.”</p>
<p>Just remembered that this was absolutely not true when I was living in Venezuela! Before moving there, Happydad and I had to send our diplomas off to be “legalized” at the Venezuelan consulate (there were multiple intermediate steps between the college and the consulate), and then we were supposed to get this legalization legalized again by some ministry in Caracas. Since I never got a job where I needed to show proof of my studies, I didn’t bother with the last step. Happydad might have had to for the University position that he held, but honestly I don’t remember if he did do that. What I do know is that both of those diplomas have stuff stamped and written all over the backs of them now. We also had to get legalized copies of our transcripts, but what truly mattered there was the diploma!</p>
<p>You never picked up your high school diploma? </p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I can’t imagine not picking it up. It doesn’t have anything to do with sentimental things, it’s the simple fact that the diploma is proof that you graduated from high school. Sure, you probably won’t need to show your diploma to anyone but you never know.</p>
<p>Should your high school conveniently lose all record that you attended there, it could save the day someday when they are doing a US government security check or other background investigation.</p>
<p>“Should your high school conveniently lose all record that you attended there, it could save the day someday when they are doing a US government security check or other background investigation.”</p>
<p>It’s been most of a year, do you think they’ve stored them somewhere?</p>
<p>The reason I didn’t worry about it was because someone told me that they’d mail it to me if I didn’t go pick it up, but they never did.</p>
<p>Yes, they will have it stored somewhere. I’d give them a call and see if you can make arrangements to pick it up or have them mail it somewhere.</p>
<p>Your chances are probably less than 1 in a 1000 that someone will ever need to see it. But I’d hang onto it because otherwise you are trusting someone else to prove you graduated from high school.</p>
<p>Our high school diplomas are stored in our lock box with birth certificates, baptismal certificates, SS cards, etc.</p>
<p>When S1 graduated from college last May, he requested that we have his diploma framed for him as his grad. gift. I was surprised but happy to do it as he has always been one of those messy guys who’s constantly losing things. With it in a big frame, I know he’ll won’t lose it,lol.</p>
<p>Re: High School Diploma</p>
<p>20 years after graduating from h.s., my Mom decided to attend Community College to get some business skills. They needed to see proof that she graduated from high school, so she wrote to the high school she had graduated from (700 miles away) and asked them to send her transcript. Turns out, the superintendent had never signed the transcript to indicate that she had graduated, and said superintendent is now dead. Mom had to dig around in the attic, find her diploma, and bring it to the Community College for them to photocopy or she wouldn’t have been allowed to enroll.</p>
<p>Qwertykey, if I were you I’d go pick up that diploma.</p>
<p>“Mine hang in my office, along with my phi beta kappa certificate and my bar admission certificate. It’s fairly typical for lawyers to do that.”</p>
<p>Yes, it is typical, even for lawyers (like me) who no longer practice. But my Phi Beta Kappa certificate, along with my sister’s, hangs in my father’s office. For some reason, that’s the thing he is proudest of.</p>
<p>I have my G.E.D. framed and hanging next to my BA, JD, and bar admission. I still have the empty diploma case I carried at my high school graduation ceremony, too.</p>
<p>One of my diplomas is literally a work of art and my parents had it handsomely framed. So that one hangs in our bedroom where no one but my wife and I see it. The others? Who knows. No doubt in a box somewhere in the house. Perhaps if given a day or two I could locate them.</p>
<p>I’m sure they’re in a pile somewhere in the house, I think…</p>
<p>Like most of the lawyers here, I had my college and law school diplomas framed and displayed in my office. Now they are just packed in a box. Lost my HS diploma in a flood in the basement. Can’t imagine that I will have much need for it now. I did know a family that had their great-great-great (however many times necessary) grandfather’s diploma displayed in the living room. It was a Washington College diploma signed by Robert E. Lee. My son’s diploma will definitely be framed, although his HS diploma is still in its leatherete folder.</p>
<p>One adult has them framed and hanging at the office, typical for that adult’s field. The other adult has them framed and hanging at home in a back room because the first adult got the second adult’s degrees framed as a present. </p>
<p>I’ve heard of at least two instances where a new assistant prof had to bring their graduate degree diploma in to be photocopied to comply with a university’s hiring practices rules. In one case, the diploma had to be translated from the Latin to English to appease The Powers That Be. :)</p>
<p>Alright I figured it out.</p>
<p>I dug out my diploma and padded diploma cover, and discovered that it sits on my bookshelf just like a book. My high school one should as well once I get that one out. It will sit there out of the way and not look stuffy or anything, but I’ll always know where it is and feel like it is sitting in a more proper place than in a box in a closet.</p>
<p>My three are nicely framed and hanging in my first floor bathroom.</p>
<p>Every few years, my dusty diplomas re-surface as we are cleaning the basement/moving houses etc. I’m always shocked to see my grad. school diploma, after many nightmares of not doing the appropriate course work etc. As for high school, as a rebellious teenager, I didn’t attend the graduation ceremonies, never physically received the diploma and couldn’t care less about piece of paper proof.</p>
<p>My law school diploma is still rolled up in the tube it came in. I probably couldn’t even unroll it anymore. My U of Michigan undergraduate diploma is so small you need a mgnifying glass to read it.</p>
<p>^true, UMdad…maybe that’s why I can’t find them.</p>