One of the schools my son applied to does not use common app. It appears the college decides admissions based on test scores and GPA-no essays or recommendations required. Our county uses numerical grades instead of letter grades on transcripts. My high school has a great reputation within our state and regionally and is nationally ranked by Newsweek. However, this college has very few students from our geographical area of the country-son is attending due to partial athletic scholarship. I assume with Common App, guidance counselors send the high school profile to colleges. However, if a high school is using a service like Parchment to electronically send transcripts, is the profile sent with the transcript? I just looked at my son’s transcript and with all the abbreviated course names, some of them are hard to identify. If the counselor automatically sends the school profile, admissions would see that 95% of students attend 4 year colleges and also see the fairly rigorous graduation requirements. I had seen my son’s transcript through 11th grade and knew his grades for first semester 12th. However, he changed some courses between first and 2nd semesters, and the updated transcript only listed 4 of his 2nd semester courses-the dropped classes were left off but the new classes were not added in (he changed out of an art and computer science course that were required or recommended for schools he no longer plans to apply to). I didn’t even realize the transcript would list 2nd semester courses with no grades. This is not the first time mistakes have been made on a transcript; I had to have his transcript to NCAA sent three times last summer because some honors courses did not include extra points and some courses were titled wrong. It seems outrageous to me that this school which is one of the top public schools in our state cant seem to get transcripts right and requires a 15 day notice for their electronic transfer.
Should my son write or call admissions to let them know he is taking 6 courses this semester? This is a college that accepts 80%+ applicants, and son was accepted to schools that accept fewer (he applied to some in fall before he signed NLI to this school-he wont attend others). I really dont want to ask the HS to fix the 2nd semester schedule on the transcript and resend it as I am afraid it will take 3 weeks to get it right like last summer. He didnt apply earlier as coach said to apply after Jan SATs-SATs are fine for admissions-he was taking again for merit scholarship levels… Even if son really was only taking 4 courses this semester, he would still have the credits to graduate. I was thinking of having my son call and ask if he could just send them a copy of his senior schedule separate from the transcript. Is that the quickest response? Our guidance counselors are so busy as some kids apply to 15+ schools, and my son applies to just a few and the transcript has incomplete senior schedule. This was the only school son was applying to after 1st semester; the transcripts sent in the fall were correct…