Grad Program Someone Else's Transcript to Application Services

[Dr_Ham]

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Hi guys,

My app cycle was rough, but I got into medical school! I just found out today while I was onboarding that my graduate program sent in someone else's transcript to the app services (even when I had to pay ~$20 to have them do so). Is this something that may have hurt my chances of getting in? How do adcoms look at grades?

 

[LizzyM]

Contact the medical school (unless you learned about this when they contacted you) and offer to have the correct transcript sent immediately. Notify the grad program registrar of this EGREGIOUS error and get the correct transcript sent (at no charge) to the school that admitted you. What I want to know is how you got your application verified if the wrong transcript was submitted??

 

[KnightDoc]

Contact the medical school (unless you learned about this when they contacted you) and offer to have the correct transcript sent immediately. Notify the grad program registrar of this EGREGIOUS error and get the correct transcript sent (at no charge) to the school that admitted you. What I want to know is how you got your application verified if the wrong transcript was submitted??

THIS^^^^. The answer, if it happened at all, is that it could not have hurt you, because the courses and grades schools saw are the ones YOU entered into your application.

The question is how the hell did you get verified with someone else's transcript? And, unfortunately, the answer, is, someone at AMCAS was sleeping on the job, and nobody checked your entries at all. Either that, or your grad school is mistaken, and the correct transcript was in fact sent to the application service, and they just sent the incorrect one now to your one school, during your onboarding.

Adcoms absolutely look at grades, but they look at the ones you enter. They never see your official transcripts until now, during onboarding.

 

[LizzyM]

If this were a one year grad program where most students register for the same intro courses in the first term, and where the applicant submits before grades are posted, I could see this happening.