I was deferred EA from Northeastern in December. I told my guidance counselor, and she said she would send my midterm grades once they came from the college I attend (full time dual enrollment). I checked my portal constantly, and when they still hadn’t been uploaded in early March I called my guidance counselor who claimed she never received them from my college so she couldn’t send them. Turns out, she had them all along and “forgot”. So, my midyear grades weren’t uploaded until March 4th. Northeastern’s decision deadline is April 1st, but they apparently have routinely been released on March 18th in years past. Anyways, will this late upload of my midyear grades affect the decision?
It’s impossible to say or know. They might have determined that they had enough information about you to make a decision without those grades, or they could have delayed a decision until they received them. If they needed the midyear grades, they should have contacted your guidance counselor. Did they ever notify you directly to say that they would be unable to proceed without the grades? Some colleges can make decisions pretty quickly once they have all the materials they need. That’s usually because they have a pretty good idea of how they’ll decide without the final information.
Like the person above said, I also think that they would’ve contacted you as well if some info was missing.
I know that they have the info, I want to know if the admissions officers will think that I’m irresponsible/lazy since my grades were uploaded so late.
Look, didn’t you say it was your counselor who “forgot” to send the grades? If anything, they’ll think you have a **** counselor.
Colleges know that you are not directly responsible for uploading the grades. They won’t hold that against you.
^True, but is that to say it will NOT impact OP’s admission decision?
@viphan
I think no because if they really needed that info, they would’ve started contacting both the student and the counselor. As they didn’t, they probably didn’t need the info to make the decision thus if the applicant is strong, he should get accepted.
I’m saying this because when I forgot to send SATs to a college, they actually contacted me quite a few times and told me I had to submit scores because my application could not be processed without them.
Based on the OP’s original post, the fact that OP decided to send his/her midterm report AFTER his/her initial deferral suggests that s/he did significantly better on the test, therefore reasoning that it could strengthen - not weaken - his/her application.
If the desired report did NOT get there on time - as it suggests - it sure could have had negative consequences contrary to OP’s original strategy.
Also, the fact that colleges did not require the midterm report tells us that they had sufficient information to evaluate OP’s application, despite missing a piece of information which OP believes would have strengthened his/her application.
It’s akin to originally having sent a 30 ACT score report, but forgetting to send a new ACT report of 34. Colleges WILL evaluate on your 30, not your 34.
@viphan
Yeah now that you put it that way, you sure have a point. Well, I guess we’ll never know for sure how this affected OP though no need to worry about it now.
If your grades are better, def have GC call speak to regional rep take responsibility if she will not do it for you have a parent call GC
Usually, the adcom would contact the GC directly for mid year report.