<p>In the current time, If some parts of an applicant's materials has not been received by the admission office, for example current grades, will AO begin to read his/her file or they just don't start to evaluate this candidate till the current grades arrive?</p>
<p>Generally, if an admissions office needs something it has not yet received, you’ll be contacted. Current grades are usually not required. Most schools ask for 1st quarter grades only - which should have been sent in weeks ago. Are you sure something’s missing from your file?</p>
<p>My current school performs 2-semester curriculum. The first term’s grades had been sent to the school on Jan 28th. It seemed that they hadn’t received it yet.</p>
<p>If the application is otherwise strong, they’ll contact you. A lot of students are having issues with late recommendations and the schools are trying to be flexible. But yes - they’re having to whittle down the list now. There’s a lot of apps to get through so the school then has time to compile the rejections, acceptance packets and any FA info that is needed.</p>
<p>Thanks Dodgers and ExieMIT. That means if the school neither receive my current grades nor contact me by now, I have been rejected.</p>
<p>Not necessarily, muzfun! If the school knows the grades are on their way (and have been sent, perhaps, from overseas?), they may simply be waiting until they arrive.</p>
<p>If you’re concerned, call or email the school. Perhaps, at this late date, they’d ask you to have your school fax the grades.</p>
<p>In our case, one of the school’s my daughter applied to sent her an email last week that they had not received one of her essays. Thankfully she did her application through SSAT so they were able to go into their systems and see that her essay was there, but somehow didn’t get downloaded on their end. I am thankful that they contacted us, instead of discounting her application altogether. Now we just are waiting to see if she got accepted.</p>
<p>As far as 1st semester grades are concerned, I sent each of the directors an email asking if they would like to have them, and if so, how. All schools wanted her second semester grades, and they just requested that we have the school fax them. So that was fantastic, and easier for the school.</p>
<p>@muz - they could have contacted your school instead. Check with your current school?</p>
<p>Hmm. I keep hearing stories of people sending various things through SSAT, and the school(s) not being aware of them until the family makes an effort to contact the school and let it know it is there. This is scary. Either the schools are not checking, or there is a problem with the SSAT system, or all parents who read this will be making <em>tons</em> of calls to each school to verify that every single piece of data has been received. There has to be a better way.</p>
<p>@mhmm
yes,I think you are right. I have ask my school counselor fax my current grades to the school.</p>
<p>@muzfun,</p>
<p>Don’t give up. First - they can call your current school to get the grades faxed if they need them. Second, if you sent previous grades they’d use those for the initial rounds then try to get current ones to make sure the grades remained consistent. </p>
<p>They’re too busy to update the status screens anymore so even that isn’t an indicator. There are so many things coming in late I can tell you the staff are adept at getting the information into the right files. I did check with an Adcom and he said “we don’t rule out a student just because one piece of info is missing, but the file has to get to us eventually”.</p>
<p>You’re likely still in the running. When in doubt, ask your school to fax the grades again.</p>
<p>At least one school told me last week that their initial decisions are done. They are working on Financial Aid now. Things could change they said, but first round is done. </p>
<p>Schools sometimes “waive” things like recommendations, but a transcript is a big deal. I would call the school and ask exactly what is missing. Sometimes also the online info is not right.</p>