Forgot to send in my transcript

<p>I applied for U of Rochester, Boston University and Case Western Reserve University through Common App. On each of the application, I indicated that I have taken a class at a community college. I didn’t realize until today that I needed to send in the transcript form the community college too. So I immediately sent them in now. Case Western, I am not worried about because their application deadline is January 15th but the other two, their deadline is January 1st. What will happen? Will my application get voided for not having the materials in time?</p>

<p>Colleges are lenient with supporting documents, it won’t be a problem.</p>

<p>To my knowledge, your application materials must be submitted online or postmarked (stamped by the post office) by today in order for consideration. Which means, if you mailed the transcripts earlier today and the post office has already stamped today’s date on it, it will be accounted for. If these items are still sitting at the bottom of a blue mailbox right now (I’m assuming you used to United States Postal Service and not FedEx or UPS), then your URochester and BU applications will be disregarded.</p>

<p>^not true. Listen to entomom.</p>

<p>rosebombay is incorrect. As long as your application was in on time, most schools will accept supporting documentation later. Your application is simply incomplete until they get everything. At this very moment, most schools are buried under an absolute tidal wave of rec letters, transcripts, supplements and other documentation that was mailed the day before the due date. It will be weeks before they get it all sorted out. And schools have every incentive to include your application in the count of completed applications received so they can look selective when they end up picking their admits.</p>

<p>Does the cc transcript need to come direct from the cc- a certified copy? That’s the only question I’d have. Check that- if that is needed, request it pronto and let the colleges know it’s en route.</p>

<p>Send the transcript in right away! Although most colleges are very lenient on these supporting docs, some are indeed very selective. If you are a top candidate, they usually would give you that benefit. But if you are on the fence, any mistake can be the reason why you are rejected. College admission will never tell you why you are rejected. But in the real world, tardiness is not tolerated. My wife told me that she rejected a great candidate (for a job under her) because he was late to his phone interview for 2 minutes. Yes, first impression really counts.</p>

<p>Don’t worry. Send it in ASAP and, if they still don’t receive it for whatever reason, they will contact you to send it in again.</p>

<p>No worries.</p>

<p>omg DO NOT listen to yaugar either. Colleges will not reject you for this administrative minutia. Here’s how it works, at all of the schools I’ve read into: the filing people file everyone’s 44329 papers into their files. They move the completed apps into a separate area, and then the adcoms start reading those and doing their selection process. When they’re done sorting through everything (usually a couple weeks after the deadline) they will let the applicants know that the tracking system is updated and anything missing needs to be resent. After another window of time, if your app is STILL not complete it may be thrown out but not before then. Missing documents can happen for a number of reasons, not sent, lost in the mail, misfiled/lost on the schools end, etc, so the colleges are not going to penalize people for missing stuff. If they did, they would get hit by lawsuits out the wazoo because it could’ve just as easily been a problem on their end. </p>

<p>The heart of the matter is that the adcoms will have no idea that your transcript was late when they read your file. You’re fine; get it sent ASAP.</p>

<p>This got way too long, but this misinformation annoys me (if you couldn’t tell). :p</p>

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<p>I agree that first impressions count and that jobs can be lost due to tartiness. However, college admissions doesn’t work this way so the analogy doesn’t work. </p>

<p>There is enough stress involved in college applications, so there’s no reason to add needlessly to it. Colleges care about getting great students, not about whether a college transcript was a few days late, particularly when they aren’t even ready to look at it yet.</p>

<p>3: I apologize for being misinformed and providing misleading information - I should have interpreted BU and URochester’s websites better. Just make sure your transcript is sent in as soon as you can and make sure your app is in by tonight. Apparently, colleges are more lenient on supporting materials, but not so much your actual application.</p>

<p>See [University</a> of Rochester : College Admissions](<a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/apply/freshmen/]University”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/apply/freshmen/)

I don’t see it requires you to send in the transcript form the community college</p>

<p>From the CA under Colleges & Universities after listing college coursework:</p>

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<p>Send it ASAP and let them know</p>