why is the grad school admission asking for my transcript again?

Graduate School
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<p>I applied early March and sent my transcript + LORs in one mail. If they have the LORs, then they should have my transcript as well. But I received an email saying they need my transcript?</p>

<p>Anyone know what is the cause of this?</p>

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<p>they probably lost it?</p>

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<p>^^^ Yup. That, or they want an official one sent directly from the recorders office instead of one you picked up and mailed yourself.</p>

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<p>Some grad schools want 2 transcripts, one for the Graduate Admissions Office and one for the department to which you’re applying.</p>

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<p>Well the good news is that if they’re asking you for another copy of my transcript, your profile has yet to be tossed :slight_smile: Actually, one of the schools I applied to ask for another copy of my transcript, and a week later, I got an invitation to interview which later led to an admission! So in short, you’ve got to “ac-cen-tuate the positive, e-lim-inate the negative…” (it’s a old Perry Como reference, just in case)</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>tkm256 has proffered the most likely reason.</p>

<p>This happened to quite a few applicants to my own program this year. </p>

<p>Folks, have the REGISTRAR send your transcripts directly. Don’t mail them yourselves.</p>

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<p>If its Baylor college of medicine, you will likely be asked for it another half a dozen times. Some places are just incompetent and tracking transcripts.</p>

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<p>During my application process this year, I even read that one school’s policy is that they will only contact you for missing info only if you are being seriously considered…not to get your hopes up but it’s not a bad sign.</p>

<p>I have one extreme story of this happening. A women(very capable and intelligent) I used to go to school with submitted an application to a top applied physics program. She had taken a course or two at a university where she wasn’t presently attending, and she was suppose to include that in her applied physics application. She didn’t. The applied physics program somehow figured this out, alerted her of missing materials, let her fix it, and then accepted her.</p>