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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.

This. Honestly, I wouldn't care if it was the school's fault as long as it was rectified immediately.

Anonymous wrote:The HS is lying.

The way the process works is UNC Chapel Hill requests the final transcript from the HS and they comply. Guidance counselors sent the transcript to the wrong state school campus all the time.

This is easily proven by the fact that Chapel Hill has the intial transcript. There would be no explanation for the change.

Your DD didn't 'mis select' anything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The HS is lying.

The way the process works is UNC Chapel Hill requests the final transcript from the HS and they comply. Guidance counselors sent the transcript to the wrong state school campus all the time.

This is easily proven by the fact that Chapel Hill has the intial transcript. There would be no explanation for the change.

Your DD didn't 'mis select' anything.

+1 I can't believe it took 3 pages to get here. If UNC has the first transcript, they come back and ask for the last transcript. OP's DD isn't even involved at this point. It's all between the HS and the college.

The only explanation is the counselor is lying to cover his ass.

Hmm. My ds had to use Parchment to send his final transcript. His college did not ask for it from the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting nobody is mentioning UNC here. A SLAC would have dealt with this quickly by picking up the phone and calling the school counselor. DD might not have even known about it.

With big public universities, you get what you pay for.

I’m all for SLACs - I went to one and I expect there’s a strong chance my kid will go to one - but that’s a dumb statement. It might be that the college would contact the HS but I think it’s more likely they’d contact the student. It’s the student’s responsibility. HS need permission to release info to a college and if the student hadn’t properly provided it (which sounds like may well have been the case), it would bounce back to the student anyway, so might as well go directly to the source.

And either way, UNC *did* have a system in place that worked. They held (not rescinded) the placement and contacted the student. The problem was resolved (it sounds like relatively quickly) and a lesson was learned about double-checking submissions and maybe even following up to confirm successful completion. Done.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The HS is lying.

The way the process works is UNC Chapel Hill requests the final transcript from the HS and they comply. Guidance counselors sent the transcript to the wrong state school campus all the time.

This is easily proven by the fact that Chapel Hill has the intial transcript. There would be no explanation for the change.

Your DD didn't 'mis select' anything.

+1 I can't believe it took 3 pages to get here. If UNC has the first transcript, they come back and ask for the last transcript. OP's DD isn't even involved at this point. It's all between the HS and the college.

The only explanation is the counselor is lying to cover his ass.

Anonymous wrote:The counselor shouldn’t have placed blame with your daughter. It’s very irritating and low class when employees do this. She should have said, “Oh no! I will get them the transcript right away. No worries! So sorry that happened.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting nobody is mentioning UNC here. A SLAC would have dealt with this quickly by picking up the phone and calling the school counselor. DD might not have even known about it.

With big public universities, you get what you pay for.

I’m all for SLACs - I went to one and I expect there’s a strong chance my kid will go to one - but that’s a dumb statement. It might be that the college would contact the HS but I think it’s more likely they’d contact the student. It’s the student’s responsibility. HS need permission to release info to a college and if the student hadn’t properly provided it (which sounds like may well have been the case), it would bounce back to the student anyway, so might as well go directly to the source.

And either way, UNC *did* have a system in place that worked. They held (not rescinded) the placement and contacted the student. The problem was resolved (it sounds like relatively quickly) and a lesson was learned about double-checking submissions and maybe even following up to confirm successful completion. Done.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting nobody is mentioning UNC here. A SLAC would have dealt with this quickly by picking up the phone and calling the school counselor. DD might not have even known about it.

With big public universities, you get what you pay for.

Anonymous wrote:The HS is lying.

The way the process works is UNC Chapel Hill requests the final transcript from the HS and they comply. Guidance counselors sent the transcript to the wrong state school campus all the time.

This is easily proven by the fact that Chapel Hill has the intial transcript. There would be no explanation for the change.

Your DD didn't 'mis select' anything.

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?

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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 wrote:Just let it go op. FWIW I believe the school. It’s not like they would need to make up a story vs just saying oops our mistake we will fix it- they fix it either way. Your daughter is filling out literally hundreds of forms right now and it’s a tedious and redundant process. It’s highly likely that she mis clicked one box. You should probably have her bring the counseling office some chocolates as a thank you for jumping in off schedule and fixing her mistake. Teach your kid some graciousness and humility.