High school charges $$ for transcript

@thumper1 I am not looking into whether the state will intervene or not as I will find out if and when I decide to escalate further. However, I want to educate myself on how the process works and how the school district may incur incremental cost for each additional college a student applies to, hence I want to find out

Do you know?

@sybbie719 I did not ask you because, IMO, there were some errors in your posts, but I think you brought up a point on post #52, “the reasonable and customary charge”, the question is how to determine “reasonable and customary” . I assume one way to determine is what other school charges… I have yet seen one charges over the SAT/ACT combined.

No, In my case, they haven’t charged $200 per transcript yet, it was a hypothetical number because if there is no basis on how the number is calculated, a school can theoretically charge any number they feel right. As I wrote earlier, it was more than SAT/ACT combined, but less than $50 as of now. I am not saying the transcript should be free, but I think the fee is unreasonable.

The charge is per college, and they use the same mechanism whenever they can, therefore, if it were truly upload to accomplish all the schools a student applies to, the policy was wrong.

@roycroftmom I don’t think it is a “good” deal" as my tax dollars are supporting after school sports.

@Sportsman88 If I have to choose, I won’t be paying $35 per hour for the GC’s rate. LOL. I don’t think the school is hiring seasonal worker to handle the transcript nor the GC is paid by the hour.

@NYmommabear and @CottonTales Thank you. I read for CC that some students need to case a wider net.