amishera2007 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 This is mentioned in most of the universities' application requirement: "A transcript from every college/university the applicant has attended or received college credit from." What does that mean? Does that mean you have to submit your school (pre-university) transcripts as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon The Black Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 International Students/Knowledgable Domestic Students: My college issues only 1 set of official transcript and I cannot go to the registrar/controller for attesting photocopies as they are unapproachable. Anyone from India faced this problem? What are we supposed to do? Get notarized copies? What have successful students done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 So, the difference between a college and a university is that a university can have several colleges in it. It's sort of an issue of size and how your undergrad school defines itself. You are being asked to send transcripts from every college or university you attended after you graduated from high school. Some people transfer, or take courses at other schools, or go on to a master's program: that's why you might need to send more than one transcript. A notarized copy sounds like your only option, Ancalagon. If schools are suspicious, they can always call your registrar to confirm. (And you may be asked to bring the original, official one with you to interviews or once admitted.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon The Black Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 wahl: Yes, I reckon it is. In India the practice of issuing transcripts has quite not caught on yet... IITs do and some other newer institutions do but the majority of the govt. universities are stuck in the pre computer era !! Some schools directly mention that notarized copies are fine. (Others are not so direct and U Chicago refuses point blank though I have heard from knowledgable people that in grad school, all conditions and policies are either waivable or relaxable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 You're right about all policies being relaxable. Some schools have so many policies, I doubt that they could keep track of all their rules if they tried. It's hard to picture that professors on these committees would bother to learn all the minutae of what is or isn't acceptable, preferred, suggested, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon The Black Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 So, wahl, are you a graduate student at caltech... in which department? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amishera2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Here is my question. How important is the pre-university records? Are we supposed to mention any thing about them? Are we supposed to send the transcripts of those? I dont know why indians place too much emphasis on ssc/hsc results. I see every profile evaluation request by any indian mentions ssc/hsc results. So it is really confusing about how much the weights of those records are. For instance you can see here: I20fever My question is simple whether ssc/hsc records are of any importance or not? If so then whether the transcripts should be sent or not because most universities mention the requirement as this: "A transcript from every college/university the applicant has attended or received college credit from." From the language it seems that they want undergrad records (which makes perfect sense) not high school records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Nope, I'm a senior in Biology. It's a small school, though, so I know many students and some of the grad students in ChE (they TA'd some chem classes I took). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 No, do not send your high school or secondary school transcripts. I thought maybe the problem was a lack of clarity about the definition of "college" (in France for example, a collège is a junior high school), which is why I tried to define it in one of my last posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon The Black Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 amishera: The reason why Indians post their ICSE/ISC marks is because they are misinformed and think that that is required. It is not required at all. They care nothing for high school records. That is a non entity in this graduate school application scenario. wahl: Applying for PhD programs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Yep, PhD programs. Not many master's programs out there in bio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauru Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 What Americans call college, the rest of the world calls university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amishera2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Author Share Posted November 23, 2007 "Official transcripts of all previous post-secondary education are required." what does "post-secondary" mean here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 They want all of your college transcripts. secondary education = high school post-secondary = college; after high school Source: Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon The Black Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Since my college doesn't issue more than 1 official transcript, this is what I am doing: 1. Make Photocopies of all transcripts and make them into "sets". 2. Get them attested by the registrar of the university. (signed + stamped) 3. Get a departmental envelope, put the marksheets in it and ask the professor to seal and sign the flap. The only thing is that my university registrar refused to issue me official university envelopes and refused to sign and seal across the flap of normal envelopes saying that he was not authorized to do so... typical beauracracy. However, my graduate school did not mind attesting the transcripts and signing across the flap across a "normal" envelope. It refused to give me official envelopes though. The weird thing is that my undergraduate university issues nice, official transcripts but only for people who have graduated (I have not graduated yet... :( ) So, I hope that this helps for any international student especially from India because all govt. rules are the same in all govt. universities. However, the IITs etc. issue official transcripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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