<p>Should I list my U.S. exchange year 07/08 as an EC or at the additional information section?</p>
<p>I am assuming you attended a high school abroad. If so, you should include your host school in the list of schools you have attended in the past 4 years. You will also have to request a transcript from your host school (or get your current school to certify the foreign school’s grades). </p>
<p>If you want to highlight it in other parts of your application (e.g. the personal essay), go ahead! But you don’t need to list it as an EC or put it in the additional info box because it will show up on other places of your application (the list of schools, transcripts, your letters of recommendation, etc.). However, the activities you participated in while you were abroad should go into the EC list!</p>
<p>I have a final report card with all attended classes and grades. Is this sufficient?</p>
<p>^ I was an exchanger, too, in 2007 (Dominican Republic, however).
I have a final report too with all the marks, so I think it’s ok.</p>
<p>If you went to an American high school, you should request that they send official transcripts to the colleges you are applying to. High schools do that all the time, for everyone who is applying to colleges. Not a big deal. Alternatively, if you can get a document from your German school that states all of your grades from the past 4 years and includes the American grades, and get that certified by a school official, that would work as well. (I know that there is nothing officially like this in Germany, but you can do it if your school administration cooperates.) </p>
<p>A flimsy computer print-out report card is not considered official because it is way too easy to forge.</p>
<p>I called my Dominican school and I made them send official transcript :D</p>
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My report card has a line saying “original document is green and has watermark on back”. Not suffiscient? :/</p>
<p>Of course, I could ask my US school to send a transcript, but IIRC transcripts sent via snail mail will not be read if the SSR is sent online (or so my counselor told me). That would pose another problem…</p>
<p>If your current high school is willing to vouch for the correctness of the American transcript, go ahead and have your counselor upload it along with the school report and your German transcripts.</p>
<p>Otherwise I would recommend you submit the Secondary School Report on paper, so that you can request paper copies of your transcript from the foreign school.</p>
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My school would do that. Does my counselor then have to say so somewhere or is uploading the report card sufficient?</p>