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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

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

* School details have been changed to protect her identity.[/quote]

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

Schools shouldn't make sure they did their job correctly?

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

It seems they did - they sent the transcript where the DD asked them to.  They did exactly what was asked of them, and OP is mad they followed instructions. [/quote]

+1
  It's the school's responsibility to send the transcript to the school your DD requested.  It's your DD's responsibility to confirm she selected the correct school.  She's going to ONE school, she can easily be responsible for that information.  The counselors are managing hundreds in a compressed time period, it's ridiculous that they should be responsible for checking that a HS senior--who is going off to the college in a few months-- selects their one correct school!?  We all make mistakes like DD, but she needs to 100% own it.

OP you should be grateful this happened to your DD before college because she now sees the need for being careful on matters that are high stakes.  In college there will be hundreds of things like this that are far more confusing and because of her being over 18 and the way privacy laws work she's going to be responsible for handling it all and it won't come to you.  She needs to not miss add/drop dates or pay fees, register for courses on time and figure out how to still meet requirements when there are course conflicts or her planned courses aren't available.  She will need to declare her major on a schedule using the right forms and making sure she has the pre-requisites needed.  Health forms! Housing requests! Forms aplenty.  Yes, she will have an advisor she can get support from on some things, but they aren't going to do any of this *for* her--she's an adult now! [/quote]

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