End of the Semester: Send New Transcripts?

[causingascene]

I got a 4.0 this past semester, and took some very relevant courses to my graduate study (for the urban planners and geographers here - SAS and GIS programs). This 4.0 also significantly raised my cumulative GPA (by a full .1).

The question is: Do I send new transcripts? The deadlines for about half my programs have passed (two of which, though, are my super duper top choice schools), and the others are due either January 15 or February 1. I feel like I should send in these new grades because they're in extremely relevant courses and courses I referenced as skills in my SOP, but at the same time I don't want to be that applicant.

So, your thoughts?

(cross-posted to applyingtograd. sorry!)

[cogpsy]

If you send your grades, the worst that can happen is that they won't look at them. The best is that they will. Unless there's a financial burden to you associated with having to send out a whole new set, it sound like you've got nothing to lose and something to gain by resending.

Good luck!

[dragynally]

I thought most schools asked for an end of year transcript anyway...but that said I think you should send it. Who knows they might read it and it'll make all the difference.

[rising_star]

I think you've gotten some good answers over in applyingtograd on LJ.

If the deadline has passed, it's worth it, I think, to check with the schools and see if additional materials would even be considered. Some will say yes, some will say no. Obviously, you don't want to send the transcripts to the schools that say no.

If the deadline hasn't passed, go ahead and send the transcript. If possible, include some sort of note that lets them know that this is a newer version of what they already have on file. Otherwise, they might check to see if they already have a transcript for you from University X and not even examine the new one.

Unrelated: Where did you end up applying? And what's GIS programs?

[aec]

Geographic Information Sciences, I think...

[rising_star]

Actually, I know what GIS stands for. It's either Geographic Information Systems or Geographic Information Science. I meant that I've never heard of a class called "GIS programs", unless the OP means that the class focused on a particular GIS package like ArcGIS (which might make sense since the other thing mentioned was SAS, which is a statistical package). I was just asking for clarification so I could see how relevant they are to the OP's grad school plans...

[aec]

I see. I worked as an intern for a Chief IT Architect last summer for a State, but as a philosophy student I don't get to whip out the IT knowledge much