<p>Two colleges that my son applied to are asking for a mid-year grade report. I never heard of.that. Anybody know what it might mean?</p>
<p>Lots of schools ask for this–they’re probably asking you because they expected to receive it from the school/guidance counselor.</p>
<p>Probably on the bubble to get in and this will help either way.</p>
<p>Maybe, but not necessarily. A LOT of colleges ask for mid-year reports.</p>
<p>More schools than not ask for the mid year grades. Only if you apply ED or EA and get accepted are you sometimes exempt for that, and then one usually submits first quarter grades.</p>
<p>barrons, I don’t think it means that–the midyear year report is standard. It’s part of the Common Application, for example: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/downloadforms.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/downloadforms.aspx</a></p>
<p>But I will say that if the midyear grades are good, they can only help.</p>
<p>I didn’t know there were schools that didn’t ask for one!</p>
<p>If they aren’t going to begin to consider applications until after the end of the first semester of senior year, why would they not want that information? The seventh semester probably reflects the abilities and motivations of the student who will actually enroll more than the first two or three semesters do.</p>
<p>The school decides to attend will probably also want a final transcript, to verify that he passed/completed all the courses he was enrolled in.</p>
<p>I thought this was a matter of routine, and that only EA/ED/rolling admission applicants didn’t have to provide 7th semester grades.</p>
<p>It’s pretty common practice for schools with Regular Decision notifications in April. It’s neither a good sign or a bad sign, just something they do for all applicants applying RD. Just make sure your GC is set to send that report.</p>
<p>Oh, okay, I honestly didn<code>t know they did that. Only two of about 10 asked for them, so I don</code>t know what THAT means now, either. :). </p>
<p>He’s our oldest, and believe me, they didn’t do that when I applied to college many moons ago. Thanks all.</p>
<p>A lot of state schools don’t, but I think most private schools do - especially very competitive ones.</p>
<p>Has he been accepted to the other schools that have not asked yet? Even some schools with rolling decisions, meaning they have already accepted your child, will ask for mid-year reports to make sure the senior didn’t blow off all his classes. I know a couple schools our kids applied to on a rolling decision had a mid-year report requirement but they waived it for our kids (assuming if your GPA and test scores are high enough they waive it for everyone that meets that).</p>
<p>its very common for schools to ask for mid year report.</p>
<p>If you did a commonapp, you are expected to file one to the schools you applied to as part of the process, even if admitted. State schools not part of commonapp don’t usually seem to care.</p>
<p>If you did not file and only 2 out of 10 are asking, you should wonder about the status of the application at the other 8.</p>
<p>texaspg-that’s interesting–the 2 schools that waived the mid-year report for our kids were both state schools.</p>
<p>Half are state schools, one was a rolling admission that he was accepted at, and the remainder are private schools. His apps are all complete, I checked myself. We will check up on the other two.</p>
<p>Every school S2 applied to in 2011 required a MY report. He’d already been accepted at two at that point (mid-February). It’s sop for many schools. I wouldn’t give it a second thought, but I would advise your student to follow up with the GC and make sure it’s sent.</p>
<p>Most RD applicants need to have their high schools send in their mid-year report. If the h.s. didn’t already send it in, the admissions committee will ask for it.</p>
<p>steveMA - I remember that there were 4 state schools (4 separate states) in the mix for D last year and not one needed it and none were on commonapp.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech and the EA schools were the only ones that did not ask for midyear reports for my son. GT didn’t even want ANY transcripts. You self reported your grades and after you were accepted, if you decided to go there, you sent you transcripts, which I though was unusual. But all of the RD schools wanted senior grades and the mid year is the point that they wanted them. I don’t think we got any requests because my kids’ schools just automatically send them. The kids give the GCs the list of their schools and what they need for each of them and that is the end of that, unless something unusual or special is needed for any of them For the early actionschools, first quarter grades were requested and sent rather than mid year grades for senior year. It also depends on when your school sends out all of your materials. If you send out your apps 12/31 and then tell your counselors, your transcripts may well include mid year grades and you just don’t know it. If they don’t. a college may request them. Some clerk inputs all of the things in a file and if something on the list is missing, an email, post card, letter or other notification is sent out asking for the items.</p>
<p>Really, this is not an unusual request.</p>
<p>What is a “mid-year” report for trimester schools? One college sent S3 an e-mail asking for a “mid-year” report and he sent back a note saying he was mid-way between first and second trimester and he attached a copy of first trimester transcript. </p>
<p>I saw that mentioned on Profile this fall and dismissed it because so many schools have gone to trimesters and the mention of it was poorly addressed with regard on what exactly kids were supposed to do. I figured if the college wanted something that need would show up in the student’s admission dashboard or they would send an e-mail and ask for</p>