"Trust but verify" high school courses and grades

[ucbalumnus]

<p>The California public universities “trust but verify” high school courses and grades. They have the applicant self-report the courses and grades and do not ask for transcripts at the time of application. Only if the student is admitted and matriculates will they ask for a transcript after high school graduation and verify the self-reported courses and grades from it.</p>

<p>This seems to create less work for the both the universities and the high schools in terms of dealing with high school transcripts and verifying them. It does mean that the applicants themselves have to do the data entry of the courses and grades, but that means that the work is widely distributed, instead of being concentrated in a few choke points where errors or delays can occur without being noticed immediately (the high schools for sending transcripts, and the universities for receiving them and putting them or the information in applicant files).</p>

<p>Do other colleges and universities use a similar “trust but verify” system to handle high school courses and grades?</p>

[sybbie719]

<p>SUNY uses SOAR. You can set up an account and start the process as early as 9th grade, putting in your grades at the end of every semester.</p>

<p>they also caution that misrepresentation would be grounds for rescinding your admission.</p>

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Once you are accepted and indicate your intent to enroll, an official final transcript must be sent from your high school to the campus for verification. Any knowing falsification or omission of information by you may result in denial of admission, and/or enrollment or revocation of admission and dismissal.</p>

<p>You can begin your academic record as early as the end of ninth grade. You will be able to return each year to update SOAR with additional courses. By the time you are ready to apply in your senior year, your academic record will be nearly complete.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.suny.edu/student/app_suny_soar.cfm[/url][/quote]”>https://www.suny.edu/student/app_suny_soar.cfm

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[kiddie]

<p>I believe Rutgers has kids self-enter their classes and grades.</p>

[xiggi]

<p>It is a solution looking for a problem to solve. The least work for applicants is to get an official transcript sent to the colleges. That is what HS are for, and the reading of the transcript is what your application fee covers.</p>

<p>The REAL solution would be in the form of a national database controlled by the student throughout K-12. A bit like the medical passports many are working on. All a student would have to do is authorize the colleges to access his or her account. High schools would have to enter the transcripts in the same database. Such database already exists for SAT results.</p>

<p>The cost would be negligible in comparison to the typical waste in education.</p>

[RacinReaver]

<p>One or two of my grad schools had me self-report my grades either through just typing the info in or scanning an unofficial transcript. The unofficial transcript route seemed the easiest to me, and I wish more places had done it that way.</p>

[MichiganGeorgia]

<p>Georgia Tech uses self reporting. They do warn that they will rescind if the grades entered don’t match when they get the official transcript after graduation.</p>

[lovecafes]

<p>U of Illinois also does “trust, but verify,” only checking transcripts after a student is admitted.</p>

[Class2012Mom]

<p>Iowa State also does.</p>

[UMTYMP_student]

<p>MIT uses “trust but verify” for mid-year grades.</p>