Legacy sway admissions?

sybbie719
Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:37 +0000

What are her chances of getting in? She is not a great student at the moment (a sophomore) but I understand that when students transfer to a school from outside the US, their grades do not transfer, only the pass / fail.



On her NY transcript, it varies by school. Some schools will put the grade from the other school on the transcript while others will do credit/no credit. When she applies to college, she will have to send her transcript from the school she attends senior year as well as a translated version of her transcript in Italy. Make sure that you have a sealed official copy for her file so that when she applies to college her high school in NY will be able to send a certified copy of her Italian transcript.

In NYC we evaluate foreign transcripts

http://www.ocmboces.org/tfiles/folder732/Evaluating%20TEXT%20(2).pdf

Since she will be coming to school in NYS for the first time as a senior, the principal can waive the Global History and Science Regents requirement (however, she is still responsible for the course work in order to graduate). She will still have to sit for the NYS regents exam in English, Mathematics and US history. Depending on the course work she has taken in Italy, she may not have all of the credits required to get a diploma in NYS.