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<p>The first time you send in your transcripts for a college for regular decision , does it have your 12th grade first semester grades on it to . I called Cornell A&S , and they said it does .</p>

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<p>Whomever you spoke to at Cornell was wrong.</p>

<p>First off, students DO NOT send transcripts. Colleges will only accept an “official” transcript sent in by your guidance counselor, along with a Secondary School Report (SSR) and high school profile.</p>

<p>Secondly, as part of the application package that is due before the EA, ED, or RD deadlines, all colleges – including Cornell – accept transcripts from GC’s with just your 9th, 10th and 11th grades, as well as a cumulative GPA. As part of the application requirements for every college, your GC then sends in a mid-year report with the first half of your grades from 12th grade. That is usually sent by your GC in late January or early February – whenever they are available. After you have been accepted, your guidance counselor then sends a final “official” transcript with your grades from 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade to the college you will be matriculating to at the end of your senior year.</p>

<p>See: <a href=“https://recsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33014/Article/1688/When-to-submit-Mid-Year-and-Final-Reports”>https://recsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33014/Article/1688/When-to-submit-Mid-Year-and-Final-Reports&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>Also see: <a href=“First-Year Applicants | Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/first-year-applicants/application-checklist&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>I don’t know how each high school does it . However my Guidance counselor said that , she sends the transcript after you send the application .She mails it in . Our senior year first semester ends in January , so by time she sends it , your first semester grades are on it already . As a result , the first transcript that the colleges see from you has your fist semester grades on it from 12th grade . I also spoke to 3 people at Cornell arts and sciences office of undergraduate admission , that said that my fist semester grades from 12th grade are on the first transcript that they see , and that also counts as the mid year report . then when i am admitted my GC , then sends my final transcript . @gibby </p>

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<p>if you need the “- The Midyear Report, when your mid-year grades are available” before you press send . Wouldn’t that be on your transcript . Which would be the first half of 12th grade ( first semester ) . So it would be the first trandscipt that they see . So the people in the office that i called were correct . @gibby</p>

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<p>@chambersaw: Your high school does not do things the way most high schools do. Most high schools send transcripts to colleges prior to EA, ED and RD deadlines. Consequently, the first transcripts that colleges see DO NOT have any grades from 12th grade. That’s why colleges want a mid year report – if the initial transcript contained grades from 12th grade the mid-year report would be duplicative.</p>

<p>As you attend a high school in Brooklyn, maybe you’d like to know how other colleges in Brooklyn do it. See Brooklyn Technical School College Handbook, page 7: <a href=“http://www.bths.edu/college_office_forms/College_Resourse_Data/COLLEGE_HANDBOOK/College_Handbook_2012-2013.pdf”>http://www.bths.edu/college_office_forms/College_Resourse_Data/COLLEGE_HANDBOOK/College_Handbook_2012-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;

FWIW: If a student from your high school applies to college for Early Decision (ED), Early Action (EA), or Single Choice Early Action (SCEA) which generally have a deadline of November 1st, your high school MUST send transcripts to those colleges without any grades from 12th grade. So those ED and EA colleges only get to see 9th, 10, and 11th grades on student transcripts sent from your high school. Your high school is then required to send the mid-year report with 12th year grades for those students.</p>

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<p>I have other questions to ask, lol.On my transcript ,it only has my weighted GPA . But you guys on CC are always talking about the unweighted GPA . I called Cornell college of arts and sciences undergraduate admission , and the lady said that they only look at the GPA that the school puts on your transcript .I asked her if they recalculated the transcript to find the unweighted GPA , or if the recalculate the GPA in any other way . She responded simply saying no , and that they have thousands of applicants , so there is no time to recalculate things on one applicants transcript . what do you think ? @gibby</p>

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<p>Every college does things differently – there isn’t a one-size-fits all method. See: <a href=“http://www.possibilityu.com/how-calculate-your-“real”-high-school-gpa”>http://www.possibilityu.com/how-calculate-your-“real”-high-school-gpa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Different high schools have different marking periods. Most colleges have Early Decision deadlines in October, or early November, but those deadlines are for the applications. They would not expect most students to have fall grades by then, but they expect to receive the most up-to-date transcripts possible. The same would apply to schools with rolling admissions that begin notifying applicants in the fall.Almost every college will have notified Early Decision candidates before mid-year grades go out. I think most of those grades are submitted at the end of January. My sons attended a private school on a trimester system, and so first-trimester grades were submitted just before Thanksgiving, second trimester grades in early March, and third trimester grades in June. </p>