Confused about applying to colleges and transcripts

[Anonymous]

Confused about sending transcripts to colleges. If you use Naviance does the school send it to Naviance? Does my child?

Why is the school talking about how I have to pay for several transcripts. Why would I need more than one if it is uploaded? If you apply to 4 colleges through Common App do I need 4 transcripts or can the 4 colleges see the one transcript on the Common App? And if I'm using Common App do I need Naviance. Very confused

[Anonymous]

This is something that each school does differently. Some send them through Naviance, some send them directly. You need to have your student get this information from their counselor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is something that each school does differently. Some send them through Naviance, some send them directly. You need to have your student get this information from their counselor.

+1 and some colleges have you fill in a self-reported transcript rather than having the school send it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you apply to 4 colleges through Common App do I need 4 transcripts or can the 4 colleges see the one transcript on the Common App?

In FCPS, you pay for a transcript for each college, with the first three transcripts provided at no charge.

[Anonymous]

And if your kid is taking any dual enrollment make sure to get transcripts from that school too.

[Anonymous]

Most colleges want an official transcript from the high school.

A few of the big schools (UCs, FSU, Virginia Tech) have the student enter all of the classes and their grades into a website.

[Anonymous]

My kid's school (in HoCo) is doing this too. The school uses Naviance to organize teacher recs and transcript requests. Each transcript is sent directly to a college by the high school - it doesn't become part of the common app.

A lot of my kid's schools don't even require a transcript unless they are accepted, so maybe you can save a few bucks that way!

What's annoying about the school's system is that the only way for my kid to add a school to her common app is to submit a paper form to the front office, where it then gets handed off to a counselor and finally to a temporary employee who enters the info...I'm sure they have their reasons but it has been an annoying and confusing process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you apply to 4 colleges through Common App do I need 4 transcripts or can the 4 colleges see the one transcript on the Common App?

In FCPS, you pay for a transcript for each college, with the first three transcripts provided at no charge.

We are in FCPS when can you ask for them, once grades are released after Junior year ends or do you have to wait for fall of senior year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you apply to 4 colleges through Common App do I need 4 transcripts or can the 4 colleges see the one transcript on the Common App?

I think you only need 1, though our FCPS school certainly did not tell us that! But I tested this out last night and added three more schools to Common App (in addition to the 6 we had the HS send transcripts to). All 3 immediately showed the school report and counselor rec as received.

Not sure about teacher recs as I didn't want to click the button to request them, but I'm guessing those will show up too (assuming you're selecting a teacher who has already uploaded a rec).

Also not sure about Naviance as we didn't use that for transcripts/recs at all, even though the school has it.

[Anonymous]

FYI the school report is not a transcript.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI the school report is not a transcript.

Fair point -- I don't see anywhere in the CA that specifies a transcript, even for schools where I know one was sent. Where would you see that? Is that something that only shows on the portal once the kid has applied?

[Anonymous]

I'm with OP - if the school uploads the transcript to Common App, why on earth would you have to pay for it? Especially, multiple times? It's there ONCE on the Common App. Paying for what amounts to a simple upload is so ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm with OP - if the school uploads the transcript to Common App, why on earth would you have to pay for it? Especially, multiple times? It's there ONCE on the Common App. Paying for what amounts to a simple upload is so ridiculous.

We were talking about this last night, as my kid decided at the last minute to submit another app but we had not requested the transcript in advance. Sure enough, once the portal came thru, the transcript was there. The school told me they submit midyear grades to all the schools and thus want to know everywhere you applied. I suspect it is useful for the Naviance scattergrams the following year as well as then the school has the data. I paid the five dollars and my kid requested the transcript for this last school but didn't write a deadline down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you apply to 4 colleges through Common App do I need 4 transcripts or can the 4 colleges see the one transcript on the Common App?

In FCPS, you pay for a transcript for each college, with the first three transcripts provided at no charge.

That's weirdly limiting. In MCPS we didn't pay anything for transcripts.

[Anonymous]

I can see paying for them back when they actually had to be mailed, individually, to each college. But a simple upload shouldn't cost a thing!