Our school had water pipes freeze in the middle of the night due to unusual weather for our southern region. The school building continues to be closed until engineering inspections clear it. Learning has “pivoted to online” with teachers admirably adjusting lesson plans. Because of this, there is an understandable delay in finalizing and sending fall semester grades.
Today I learned that a letter has been sent to schools in place of final fall transcripts explaining the delay and that it would be weeks before fall semester grades will be filed, compiled and transcripts submitted.
My question for this forum: will the admissions committee review an application if it is incomplete because of reasons beyond the control of the student? Or will his file will wait in limbo… not considered late, but not discussed? Will the interim grades serve as a “good enough” puzzle piece/proxy for discussion purposes?
Will every school handle this differently? Should I call every school and inquire? What is the point if there is nothing I can do? Essays, letters of rec, last year’s grades, interim fall grades etc., are all there!
I would be grateful for any insights whether - in practice - indeed his application will be put to the side and left out of the initial discussion of balancing the class.
My worry is that by the time the official fall semester reports arrive, in a few weeks (?), his iced application will be out of synch with the flow and an afterthought.
A grand total of zero of us are admissions officers, so none of us know for sure.
That’s good. My guess is admissions will proceed without the missing piece and contact your current school if they need additional info. Fortunately preliminary grades were submitted.
No. There’s nothing to do but sit and wait. Admissions has the info. Your calling will not change their process. Good luck.
If I remember correctly, most schools want the current grade transcripts after November 1st. Some also said that as long as one or two periods of grading are done, that is fine. In our case, we sent it after ( LPS has 3 grading periods in each semester) the first 2 grading periods of the Fall sem. So if they have transcripts after the first or second period of the fall sem it should be fine.
I don’t think there’s anything to be done. You could reach out to your admissions rep independently and let them know - just in case they hadn’t “noticed” what was sent by your school (or it never arrived or was misplaced - these things do happen). But I think earlier poster is correct, they will review without missing piece and maybe hold off on a final decision until grades arrive.
