For ED/EA do colleges see senior year grades (through November 1) in making their offers of admission?

[Anonymous]

DC attends a Wash DC independent school. My DS and I were wondering what senior year grades, if any, were sent on the transcript to colleges for ED/EA.

Is the process different for ED vs EA? Does it depend on the specific high school's policies?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the high school. If the high school issues quarter or trimester grades to students then yes those would be available and the HS could send those to the ED school before ED decisions are made in December. If HS only gives semester grades then those are too late for ED decisions.

[Anonymous]

My DC’s high school sent a course list for EA/ED, but transcripts are not issued until the semester break. For those colleges that require them, the school sends a semester transcript in late January/early February.

DC has been accepted everywhere that they applied EA so far, so I don’t think this policy puts them at a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

My DS applied ED and needed to send in 1st Q grades.

[Anonymous]

My kid submitted first-quarter grades (straight As) to EA schools where the portals allowed it. His ED1 school prompted his counselor to send first quarter grades during the decision process.

The ED2 school will make its decision before semester reports are available, and the portal doesn’t allow students to submit additional materials. He asked the college counselor to contact admissions to see if they wanted to see first quarter grades; they said yes, so the counselor sent them.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school. DC’s ED school (a SLAC) requested 1st Q grades and you were expected to send them by Dec. 1. His EA schools didn’t ask for them as far as I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS applied ED and needed to send in 1st Q grades.

Same. School listed it in criteria but also sent a request to counselor.

I don't think any EA schools asked for Q1 grades. Maybe 1....

Kid or counselor has to send them separately. It wouldn't be an automatic thing.

[Anonymous]

None of DCs schools asked for 1st Q or semester grades. The HS did automatically send a mid year report to every school you’d requested a transcript and/or school profile for but I don’t think most, if any, even considered it. Only 1 EA and 2 RD schools (one of which was a deferral from EA) hadn’t already sent DC an admissions decision by then.