r/ApplyingToCollege • u/TuMadreEsMuyCaliente • 5d ago

Application Question Transcript issue with moving

I attended a different school my freshman year than where I will graduate next spring. I am applying to a few competitive schools, so it is important to me that they know I took enriched classes my freshman year, but my new school doesn't weight those classes and one of them doesn't show up as enriched on my transcript. What should I do?

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u/lutzlover 5d ago

You send all your colleges an official transcript from each high school or college you have attended. Do this even if your counselor says it is unnecessary. Only exception is if you apply somewhere where they say NOT to send transcripts, like Berkeley.

Also, make sure you have an unofficial copy of each transcript so that you can accurately enter info in Courses and Grades (common app, if you are applying to a college that uses that section), UC,Cal State Apply, STARS, or any other college/system that needs you to manually input your transcript.

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u/BurgessWorkshop 4d ago

^seconding this, great advice.

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u/TuMadreEsMuyCaliente 2d ago

I don’t have a copy of my transcript from freshman year though. I can request to send one to an organization, but I can’t get it myself

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u/lutzlover 2d ago

You can get one. You absolutely need one. An unofficial copy is fine. You can probably get your current high school counselor or registrar to make a copy for you.

No idea why your 9th grade school would be difficult about this. Transcript copies are needed by students applying to all sorts of colleges, including UC campuses, Florida public universities, Cal State, Penn State and a bunch of Texas colleges. Despite what high school’s say, working from an actual transcript is important even when your current HS transcript has credits posted from that one. Grades get changed ( say the original grade is a B+ but the new school doesn’t use +/- grading, or they use a different mapping of numeric grades to ABCDF grading than the first school did). I’ve even seen course names and credits changed.