Whose Responsibility?

[Anonymous]

My DD was admitted to UNC Chapel Hill. Yesterday, they called and said her admission is on hold because they never received her final HS transcript.

After much poking around and an hour on the phone with Parchment and three Chapel Hill AOs, we learned that the transcript was sent to UNC Wilmington, not UNC Chapel Hill.

We emailed her HS's college counselor who explained (we think) that this was my DD's fault. They allege that she 'mis selected' the school on a drop down somewhere. I find this very hard to believe as everything else Chapel Hill needed was given to them with no problem. Follow up emails to get clarity on what exactly happened have not been answered.

This is a large, well known, HS in the DC area. All seems to be rectified now after we emailed the counselor's boss who quickly sent the transcript. I have no problem admitting it was my DD's error if that is the case, but I'd like to know.

Does a HS have no part in verifying that they are sending the correct transcript to the correct school?

* School details have been changed to protect her identity.

[Anonymous]

The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.

[Anonymous]

All fixed.

Move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.

Again, the counselor has no responsibility to endure they are sending it to the correct school? My DD has no access to anything to verify and if an error this large is this easy to make you'd think the school would be looking precisely for this because it must happen all the time.

I'm incredulous that my DD was the only senior of several hundred in her class to make such a simple mistake.

We have moved on but I want to know what happened.

[Anonymous]

There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.

It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.

[Anonymous]

Was it flagged in her portal? If I had accepted somewhere I would certainly try to doublecheck they had all my paperwork.

This actually happened to someone I know where in college the school never sent the transcript and they got rejected from a study abroad program and once they figured it out it was too late so they had to find another program.

[Anonymous]

LCPS requires students to select the college that they are attending so that the high school knows where to send the final transcripts to. The college that my DC is attending has a "To Do" list and one of them is final transcript by a certain date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.

It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.

Yes it is. It’s fixed. Your “what if’s” never happened.

[Anonymous]

OP, that’s why UNC has the system of notifying. The system worked. It’s all good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was admitted to UNC Chapel Hill. Yesterday, they called and said her admission is on hold because they never received her final HS transcript.

After much poking around and an hour on the phone with Parchment and three Chapel Hill AOs, we learned that the transcript was sent to UNC Wilmington, not UNC Chapel Hill.

We emailed her HS's college counselor who explained (we think) that this was my DD's fault. They allege that she 'mis selected' the school on a drop down somewhere. I find this very hard to believe as everything else Chapel Hill needed was given to them with no problem. Follow up emails to get clarity on what exactly happened have not been answered.

This is a large, well known, HS in the DC area. All seems to be rectified now after we emailed the counselor's boss who quickly sent the transcript. I have no problem admitting it was my DD's error if that is the case, but I'd like to know.

Does a HS have no part in verifying that they are sending the correct transcript to the correct school?

* School details have been changed to protect her identity.

Verifying with who? I am sure they don't double check with each student nor should they.

[Anonymous]

LOL at the posters saying NBD.

They didn't notice that the mid year transcript and final transcript were different colleges? What HS is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.

It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.[[b]/quote]

Except none of this happened.

And it was a mistake…on your daughter’s part. Your question should have been: my kid clicked the wrong univ to send her final transcript to and when the school she is attending said her app was on hold bc her final transcript never came, she asked the counseling office what happened, they told her about her mistake. Yeah, she made a mistake that was quickly fixed, but don’t you think the counselor’s should verify everything for these adults???

Answer: no- and instead of championing your position, use it as a lesson for your kid to double check everything. And explain to her that we don’t worry about things that might go wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL at the posters saying NBD.

They didn't notice that the mid year transcript and final transcript were different colleges? What HS is this?

Maybe she accepted a waitlist later. Maybe she got a scholarship later. She’s an adult and it was her fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.

It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.

It WAS a huge deal. It seems to clearly be your daughter’s fault. Let’s assume for a moment that you accept that. What does that do for your daughter? Do you want to add stress to a situation that’s already resolved? Guilt her about how stupid she was that she chose wrong?

Or are you just trying to hear that it wasn’t her fault?