<p>So I took a grand total of 13 credits at a local university in high school, and now I have to ask the institution for an official transcript (and pay for one) for every internship that now requires official transcripts? WHY? The same 13 credits show up on my UVA transcript. </p>
<p>This process seems to inherently create more work and stress for those who already have gone further to do the work and stress!</p>
<p>My son has dual-enrollment credits from five institutions. So yes, whenever someone wants transcripts for scholarships, internships, whatever, I dig through the pile. We have twenty transcripts at home for him. Two schools charge: UIUC charges $5 and his community college charges $2. They are free at the other three schools.</p>
<p>Some places will fortunately take copies of official transcripts or unofficial transcripts.</p>
<p>No discrimination - the rules are the same for everyone. If you were a transfer student, you’d have to deal with the same thing.</p>
<p>Good to have a batch of the old ones in case you need them in a hurry.</p>
<p>yes, but transfer students deal with 2 years of coursework and their coursework isn’t optional</p>
<p>This dual-enrollment stuff was done in HIGH SCHOOL. =(</p>
<p>OK, this is why we need a nationalised education system. I’m a Jeffersonian as much as the next guy, but in most East Asian countries there would only be one central database for this sort of thing. Prolly in France, UK and Germany too. If not Scandinavia.</p>
<p>Colleges want to see all of your college transcripts so that they can see how you do in a college environment. Some places want to see your high-school transcripts too if you’re a freshman. That’s the way it is.</p>
<p>I understand that there is a transcript clearinghouse but apparently it’s easier to just get students to send them than it is to get the information from the clearinghouse.</p>
<p>Yes, but I’ve done well in a college environment and <em>more</em>. That <em>more</em> is optional. I shouldn’t be <em>required</em> to do <em>more</em> that other applicants who didn’t do more aren’t required to do. Dual-enrollment IMO is a high school transcript.</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>Imagine if undergrad college applications required high school students to send their SAT score they took at that time they were in middle school for something not related to college?</p>
<p>I don’t think that it would be a problem. You run through the hoops that you have to get the job done. If you think that this is bad as a college student, wait until you get into the real world.</p>
<p>I can’t afford to spend 200 dollars applying to internships. I’m a Pell Grant recipient. Aahhhh =(</p>
<p>Do any programs accept unofficial transcripts? If you can get one transcript under the table, some programs will allow you to use those in the same manner as BCEagle91 prescribed.</p>
<p>(P.S. This doesn’t rise to the level of “discrimination”. It’s a hassle, but it’s not exactly Nuremberg.)</p>
<p>Well a lot do.</p>
<p>I’m applying to dozens of internships – it’s just that a good deal of them require official ones from <em>all</em> institutions.</p>
<p>I’ve seen REUs that require only unofficial transcripts but they want them from all schools and they prefer them by email so you just email them off your university website or scan or take photos of the other transcripts which you should already have a copy of.</p>
<p>You might send the internship folks an email and ask them if they require official transcripts of dual-enrollment courses. They might reply stating that unofficial is okay (since they will probably be reported as transfer courses on your current university transcript) or tell you not to bother.</p>
<p>How are you going to get dozens of LORs?</p>
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<p>Yeah, hopefully I can remember my old dual-enrollment password for an account I haven’t used for years … I thought I left those days behind me. wth?</p>
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<p>Well for some profs it’s basically copy and paste.</p>
<p>Here goes for calling 15 offices…</p>
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<p>Ideally, you’d have scans of old transcripts in your email that you could just forward
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<p>I think that college professors generally like to do a good job and actually read the internship descriptions to tailor recommendations to internships.</p>
<p>BTW, have you ever tried this approach before?</p>
<p>Well yeah but it’s like variations on a theme…</p>
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<p>Well I applied to 9 colleges in HS … so this is just like scaling it up …</p>