Where Do Transcripts Get Sent To?

Applying to College
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<p>I have started the college application process, and I have come to the point where I want to send my transcripts before the majority of my classmates start to do the same. My high school is notorious for losing forms and not sending information, and I have heard a few horror stories of people not having complete applications after the deadlines because my guidance department never sent their transcripts even though they were given ample time. Therefore, I want to make sure I get mine in before they have too many and start losing them.</p>

<p>My school does not have electronic transcripts, so I have to fill out a transcript request form for each of the nine schools I am applying to. I am using the Common App for everything else (including Secondary School Report), so I pretty much just need the addresses for the following schools:</p>

<p>MIT, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, U Penn, U Pitt, Wash U in St. Louis, and Drexel</p>

<p>I have tried searching each college's website for the addresses, but most simply recommend sending them electronically and fail to give an address for those of us that have no choice but to send paper copies.</p>

<p>If anyone could provide the addresses for one, a few, or even all of the schools I mentioned, I would greatly appreciate it!!!</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!!!</p>

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<p>Call each school’s admissions office and ask them.</p>

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<p>Seriously? I just looked at the undergraduate admissions page for each one of those colleges, and I found every single admissions office’s mailing address.</p>

<p>Look again. The information isn’t a secret.</p>

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<p>I know they all have pretty accessible addresses, but I was told that they may have “transcript processing” offices with different addresses.</p>

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<p>By a reliable source? First I’ve heard of such a thing.</p>

<p>I’d be highly skeptical about that, especially if there’s no such address given prominently on their web sites. Remember these colleges WANT you to finish your application. Whether they admit you or not, they want you to apply, so they can appear as selective as possible.</p>

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<p>Contact the school and ask them. </p>

<p>Most schools list phone numbers on their websites. Just call, talk to an official there, and get your information.</p>

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<p>There’s no secret address for the doggone transcripts. Send it to the office. that’s it. c’mon. they get thousands and thousands of documents. Yours won’t be lost.</p>

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<p>Okay thank you! I hope they won’t!</p>

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<p>And even if you sent your documents to the admissions office when there was some sort of different mailing address for processing applications…you really think they wouldn’t just send your application to the correct location? These people are not “out to get you.” They work with confused prospective undergraduates for a living.</p>