<p>So about 15 internships I am applying to require official transcripts, and at 10 dollars each that's 150 dollars. </p>
<p>Is there any way to get a waiver like in high school? I am a Pell Grant recipient...</p>
<p>Contact UREG. No one here can waive fees or help get you an official transcript.</p>
<p>Come on, Wu. Google.</p>
<p>Well I already read their site. </p>
<p>I was wondering if anybody had experiences or workarounds. Maybe there’s some other option I don’t know of.</p>
<p>See if you can get paid to make a new SIS. ;)</p>
<p>Talk to the company. Sometimes they’ll let you go in and print off the grades in front of them.</p>
<p>Also, try being a fourth year this year, in the midst of a COMPLETE hiring freeze, and having to apply to a ton of jobs and give out transcripts, drive to interviews, have to buy new suits, have to find a place to live, figure out commuting, roommates, etc. Yeah, I feel terrible for you</p>
<p>Does it really cost 10 dollars to print out and seal a transcript? And OK, omg, the 50+ cents it might cost in postage? </p>
<p>I just don’t get it. 5 would have been OK.</p>
<p>Ever think the people in UREG offices need a salary?</p>
<p>yes, I’m counting labour. I think it’s generous when labour ends up being 80% of the cost. suppose printing and sealing and mailing (take collective mailing time / # of transcripts per day) takes 5 minutes and 20% is overhead like printing, envelopes, mailing and whatever. Then that’s 8 dollars every 5 minutes ==> 96 dollars an hour.</p>
<p>It should take 1 person max to do dedicated transcript stuff. per day at least. You could pay a student to do that. and OK there’s some supervision needed to ensure no corruption occurs – a supervisor that would have been hired anyway, transcripts or not.</p>
<p>Go join student council and take an economics course. And until you do this, stop complaining</p>
<p>I manage shifts at a local fast food restaurant. It may not be a student council, but I watch labour/sales ratio all the time. We try to keep the labour/sales ratio down to maximise profits. The average is 16%. During slow times it goes to 35-50% max. During very busy times it goes down to as low as 8% – and that’s with the tripling of the amount of staff on duty to deal with the volume. </p>
<p>Big as we are, Mickey D’s is not a monopoly. </p>
<p>Of course however, when you’re a monopoly in charge of the only source of transcripts, there may be deadweight loss involved. During peak times, as I imagine UREG is constantly involved in, the optimal labour/sales ratio should NOT be 80%.</p>
<p>Ask the company if they would accept a copy of the transcript now and be provided with an official transcript after an offer or prior to reporting to work.</p>
<p>Transcript costs used to be $5, it wasn’t until sometime this fall that the cost was up’ed to $10. The university I transferred from still charges $2. </p>
<p>I think a lot of it has to do with the volume of people who need transcripts. If you think about it, there are roughly 4-5k new graduates every year between all the schools of the university…if you go back 10 years, that adds up quickly. Given the economy and that more people are looking for jobs, and employers are being more scrutinizing about who they hire, this is probably a supply/demand issue with demand being inelastic (or something close to it).</p>
<p>I second the person above who recommended an unofficial copy with an official upon offer of employment. I think a lot of organizations would be willing to work with that. I applied for local, state and federal jobs and this was basically acceptable at all three levels.</p>
<p>Yeah but wouldn’t people have thought of that already? Some of these companies (or labs) are emphasising the OFFICIALness of it.</p>
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<p>Which generally allows for better economy of scale, not worse.</p>
<p>Once again, I repeat my tried and true method of going to the place, printing it off in front of them. Or go talk to an advisor/dean/official person and print it off in front of them, and have them sign and verify. Telling an employer you don’t have $10 is not the end of the world, they will help you and work with you.</p>
<p>But, instead, you continue your rant on here instead of working towards a solution. It’s why Mech and I are the engineers I guess</p>
<p>OK I might do that … just not for my Feb 1 apps, which I just spent 40 lousy dollars on.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to negotiate with big shot companies and labs over the requirements of their apps? I mean I haven’t tried. Yet. I guess I have 11 more places to practice negotiation with.</p>
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<p>Some want it sealed and mailed directly?</p>
<p>Wait, are you suggesting that I go down to UREG and personally plead with them, or do official transcripts the hacker way? (For the others: I’m talking about the original MIT sense of hacker, not compromise security cracker.)</p>