About international transcripts...

[buccal]

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I took 3 summer courses at a university outside of U.S. The credits were then transferred and evaluated from the current school I'm attending. The courseworks are shown in the transcript. And I also believe that my current school has the offical transcript for the summer courses.

This is what it says in the AADSAS guidelines.
"You are required to submit one transcript from every international college/university you have attended. AADSAS also encourages international applicants to submit a copy of any evaluation of international coursework that has been completed by an official credential evaluation service."

Do I still need to contact the university outside of U.S to send the official transcript to AADSAS? Also do I need to get an evaluation by an official credential evaluation service?

Thanks.

 

[prettysmile]

You need to contact the university outside of U.S and ask them to send the official transcript to ECE or any other evaluation service that AADSAS suggested. By doing this you will ask the evaluation service send the evaluation to the AADSAS. If you get accepted to any school again you ask the same service to send the evaluation to them.
I sent my trascripts to ECE. They were fast and accurate.
Good luck

 

[buccal]

So althougth my current school (in U.S) has evaluated the courses and gave equivalent credits for them, I still need to go through the evaluation service?

 

[estrella00]

Hey, I had a similar experience. I went to Stanford but attended a few French schools during a semester in college. Stanford had no problem accepting the credits from the overseas program transcripts, but this was a problem when I applied to dental school. In fact, one school rejected me because they said they needed the official transcripts themselves (in addition to the ones sent to AADSAS). I would save yourself any heartache and send them to be evaluated now by whichever U.S. service your schools recommend. Also, be sure to notice if the individual schools also require you to send in the transcripts during the application process (UCSF was the one I had a problem with, but the other ones didn't require it). Good luck!

 

[buccal]

Thanks for the advice.

 

[nwdmd]

Also in a similar situation.. just 12 creds of spanish from abroad.

The international grades were on a 1-5 scale, my university converted to ABCD scale.

Seems like this could cause some confusion down at the ADEA.
What did you guys do?

The international grades don't count towards GPA, yea?

Thanks for any help!