Official Transcripts

[sympatico]

Does anyone know whether unofficial transcripts are ok until they've made a decision? It seems like a few programs don't care whether they're official or not until they've decided whether they want to make you an offer. Is this the case or am I misreading? It sort of makes sense considering some schools charge 10 bucks or so a pop to have them sent out and obviously getting accepted off a faked unofficial transcript won't get you anywhere.

edit: nevermind I apparently hallucinated that aspect.. Official all the way.

Edited December 15, 2011 by sympatico

[sympatico]

just for the record YALE takes unofficial for the preliminary round of apps

[R. Mutt]

http://steinhardt.ny.../guide/faq/tran

"A transcript you personally print from a web based system showing your academic history or an unofficial transcript does NOT meet this requirement and should not be uploaded. "

nyu says no

Edited December 22, 2011 by starling

[Studiohound]

Each school handles this differently. Best to check.

[jldstudio]

Since I had a school that needed an official transcript uploaded and I had to make a PDF for that anyways, I've just used the official one for everything. I wish more schools would do it that way, saves you from the cost of all those transcript requests.

[forestine]

Also double check that you are sending them the required number. York wants two copies for some reason, etc.

Does anybody know if it will matter that the registrar spelled "Toronto" wrong on one of my transcript packages? I'll call on monday, but...

Edited January 7, 2012 by forestine

[sympatico]

It won't matter.

[forestine]

Phew. She spelled it wrong four times and we were joking about it because she doesn't like Toronto, so it said "Toronot". We thought she fixed it but then I got it home and...