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Started by gucci
AADSAS won't even begin to verify your application without your transcript...
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Your app is submitted, sure, but they won't mail your app without verification, and verification requires your transcripts to be submitted.
If its August, the earliest your grades will even be verified will be mid-August and by then you will not be in any of the early batches.
In this case I'd wait. I also had to wait for a grade change. Just don't expect many pre-December interviews.
Ack if they begin verifying your grades in August your app might mail out to schools mid to late september. The later the gpa verification process begins, the longer it takes. The F will hurt you (relatively); wait for the W.
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Is the 3.5-6 GPA including BOTH the F and the new grade you will get?
I would not submit with an F. Having a later app is better than a weaker app.
AADSAS will correct your coursework (or they'll delay it and make you correct it yourself) and it will appear as an F on your electronic application when schools receive it. So yes, contacting schools is a good idea.
This is true, AADSAS will keep it an F until they have your new transcripts. Which means you definitely need to contact every school you apply and tell them what happened. I'm not sure what their policy is about situations like this, I'd imagine some will only go off your official application with the F and a few may actually listen and mark it as a W.
May I ask- why won't your school update your transcript earlier than August? I'd call/write your University Registrar, explain the entire situation/the consequences, and request expedited processing.
Get your Dean involved, get your academic advisor involved. Do whatever it takes to get that updated transcript out to AADSAS immediately.
Get your Dean involved, get your academic advisor involved. Do whatever it takes to get that updated transcript out to AADSAS immediately.
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Last year I submitted my app with transcripts already sent in the beginning of August. I was not verified until second week of Septemeber. They took longer than 6 weeks. It's your call, but that's my experience.
