<p>I'm a transfer student, so of course I have to submit a college transcript as well as (for some colleges) a high school transcript.</p>
<p>I'm concerned because two of the colleges aren't acknowledging that I sent in my official college transcripts to them. I know for a fact they've received them because I put delivery confirmation on all my outgoing college mail . . . Then I can check on the post office's website and see when they're received. One college received an envelope I sent on February 6th, the other received an envelope on February 2nd, but both colleges continue to send me repeated e-mails asking me to send in the transcripts . . . which they already have!</p>
<p>I'm not sure what to do. I can send in my transcripts again, but if they didn't acknowledge them the first time, will they acknowledge them now? I sent them in padded envelopes because that's what I had that fit the sealed "official transcript" envelopes well . . . I'm wondering if that was a mistake??</p>
<p>Has anyone else experienced delays like this?</p>
<p>Call the colleges’ admissions officers. It doesn’t matter whether others here have had such delays. What matters is getting your situation straightened out.</p>
<p>Thanks NSM, that makes sense. </p>
<p>One of the colleges e-mailed me back this morning saying they had a 3 to 4 week delay between receiving material and putting it on their website, which makes me feel better. I haven’t heard back from the other college so I’m going to call them.</p>
<p>yeah, i was wondering that, too.</p>
<p>On a sidenote, delivery confirmation is wonderful and I highly recommend it if you have to snail mail anything important or time sensitive to colleges. For 80 cents, it’s given me a lot of peace of mind for the less communicative colleges. At least I know my stuff DID get there and isn’t lost in the mail.</p>
<p>Don’t panic when your materials aren’t acknowledged or even when you receive “missing materials” notices. About 99% of the time, the stuff really did show up–it just isn’t filed or recorded yet–and many college officials have a quick trigger finger when it comes to sending out those scary missing-materials notices.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, it is the applicant’s responsibility to follow up and make sure that everything did indeed arrive safely. If you phone a college and are told that something isn’t in your file, chances are, it will turn up within the next few days. It’s probably just sitting in a stack on a secretary’s desk.</p>
<p>BUT … if you call back after a few days and it’s still AWOL, then you need to hustle to replace it. Even if the deadline has already passed (which is likely), you won’t be penalized, but you can’t dawdle. Replace it as fast as you can.</p>