<p>Yay OP! Good job! :)</p>
<p>Yes, colleges require an official final transcript sent directly from the high school. Students have been known to be rescinded at this point if their grades plummet.</p>
<p><<<…tiptoe-ing back in briefly…>>> Final transcripts, with documentation of final grades and graduation, must come from the school. The colleges still reserve the right to withdraw an offer of admission of the student’s grades take a serious senior slide, of if they fail to complete some required course for graduation/college matriculation. </p>
<p><<< as Snagglepuss, from Quickdraw McGraw used to say… exit…stage left.>>>></p>
<p>*** crossposted with slithey</p>
<p>OP,
As others have said, good for you for making the decision to change from ED to RD now that you know more fully the details of ED. In regards to your GC, yes you did supply their email so that they could send supporting documents. At this point the GC should see an ED application and if they haven’t already sat down with you, preferable you and a parent, to fully explain ED, then they make an appointment with you ASAP or they haven’t done their job. They may have not known your intent, however when presented with information here look how quickly you were to decide to contact the university and change your application from ED to RD. This is the role your GC should be serving. So while maybe not having knowledge, they are not doing their full responsibility to ensure that the ED process at your high school, for you, and for the universities that their students apply to continue to stay on the highest level of integrity possible.</p>
<p>OP - I applaud your decision. You have shown that you can look not only at how your actions affect you but possibly your classmates as well. I am positive that in the end, you will end up at a college where you will flourish and be happy.</p>
<p>Congrats to the OP for doing the right thing!! In answer to previous post, all final transcripts are sent by the high school directly to the school the student will be matriculating at. In our high school once the student makes their final decision, students must submit to guidance a detailed response of what schools they were accepted at, what schools they were waitlisted at, rejected at and what were the factors in their final decision of which school they will be attending. This is not because the guidance dept is nosy. They want to think ahead for the rising seniors and juniors. At senior awards night, the principal makes a big deal of announcing where every kid in the graduating class will be attending whether Harvard to local community college to entering the military. Since I sort of started this discussion I will add that it was an Ivy in which we had a student back out of an ED commitment in around 2002 or so. No student from our high school has ever been accepted at that particular Ivy ED since then, although many have RD acceptances and we have many ED acceptances at other Ivies. College adcoms have very long memories and keep very detailed notes.</p>