My Principal made a grave mistake and I am panicking

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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I come from a rural town in India, my principal barely knows how to use commonapp.

he reluctantly uploaded my SA-1 (mid-year) marksheet of 9th grade as he was in a rush and could not find my final sheet, (where I scored B’s and D’s).

he was supposed to upload the SA-2 marksheet (Final marks) which I scored pretty good with A’s and B’s.

I came over this as I talked to my admissions office in the morning to check over if they sent the grades.

the worse part is the sheet isn’t even marked whether its the final examination or not because everything looks the same.

this sounds fake, but it is true, please believe me.

My college application part is ruined, I do not know what to say.

should I just abandon my commonapp and create a new one and ask them to send it over?

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Can your principal send the correct transcript to your colleges, along with a note?

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I am really scared that they will not believe it, both transcripts just mention 9th grade no further exam divisions.

Admissions committee might even have started their reviews.

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I don’t understand why they wouldn’t believe your principal. It’s important to send the right transcripts to your schools, I do understand your principal isn’t that familiar with the process but he just has to do what he did before, but with the correct grades/transcript.

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I messed it up even bad, I wrote in my additional section that my loss of father’s buisness caused my 9th grade marks to dip, I meant for the B’s but godamn he sent the entire wrong marksheet.

Again its completely same, my name, roll no and other stuff. They will be really suspicious right?? Should I even tell him to correct it, because I don’t want to run into the chance of getting directly rejected as a whole.

this is super complicated

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You must, because if you don’t, you are lessening your chances.

You’re panicking and you shouldn’t. Your principal simply sends the right document to the colleges. He states that he sent the incorrect information. There is no reason why they will think the principal of the school is lying or that you have engineered some devious plan to send fake transcripts. You just ask him to please send the correct transcripts as soon as possible.

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Look I completely understand what you say.

But please take a closer look, same document, same name, same roll number, but different grades I cannot think how they might not get suspicious.

My principal does not even have a offical school account on top, because it does not have a website.

Please help me I beg you.

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I applied to about 2 colleges in my old application, can I just abandon it and start a new college app and just upload it to the remaining 18 colleges.

It would clear out all confusion.

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Schools will trust a new communication and transcript for the principal. They may reach out to him to verify but that’s not uncommon/ no problem.

Having him send the updated record is the only way to fix the records at the schools you’ve already applied to, and the only way to have the correct transcript go to schools you have yet to apply to. You can’t open another common app account, that’s against the rules.

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But its the exact same document every letter and stamp being the same except the grades, I am so sorry but I really want to be specific here. If you looked at it side by side you would be puzzled too

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I already did and my principal changed the transcript here. I will only apply to the 18 schools that remain.

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If you think you’re screwed now, just wait until the Common App cancels your second account - which they will

Admissions won’t be puzzled.

You can ask the same question a million more times rearranging the words and the answer is the same - admissions will figure it out.

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OP- admissions committees see mistakes all the time. My nephew’s transcript (which was accurate) had another student’s name on it. He was mystified when he kept getting emails that said “Your application is not complete”. I know dozens of kids who transposed a digit in their social security number on the application which means that NONE of the documents line up.

Relax. Respectfully ask the principal to resend the correct documents with a quick two line explanation– “Please replace the previous transcript with this one; due to a clerical error you were sent incorrect information”.

And then stop worrying. Mistakes happen all the time. Nobody is scrutinizing document A to compare it document B. Just send in the right transcript with the instructions (replace the previous one with this one) and move on.

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