Sending Fall Grades??? HELP!

[aggiechris06]

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For AMCAS schools, need we send a transcript to each of the schools with our fall grades? I'm just now realizing that I might need to do this and feel pretty dumb. Also, do we need to send a transcript to each school?

Finally, I've applied to Hopkins and WashU in St. Louis and haven't heard anything for even an interview. Would sending grades help?

 

[medicalbound]

For AMCAS schools, need we send a transcript to each of the schools with our fall grades? I'm just now realizing that I might need to do this and feel pretty dumb. Also, do we need to send a transcript to each school?

Finally, I've applied to Hopkins and WashU in St. Louis and haven't heard anything for even an interview. Would sending grades help?

Not all schools want or even care about your fall grades. You can send them to each just to be safe or call the admissions office and ask them if you should or if it might help. Good luck!

 

[wowzer]

ALL Schools to which you have been accepeted will require an official transcript. While some schools will directly recommend that you submit your fall unofficial or official transcript (e.g. hold emails from schools like Pritzker), a solid academic record has a good chance of influencing admissions committees at rolling and non-rolling schools to re-review your app and re-consider for an interview.

This is a litle more vague for post-interview cases, as schools often make decisions a few days after your interview and release fianl decisions on certain days. In the worst case scenarion, if you are on a post-interview hold or teetering between an acceptance or waitlist, it could definetly be the determining factor.

I am speaking from the experience of calling all the schools I applied to, and their staff definetly suggested submitting a transcript witht he ntion that it would be reviewed.

 

[SpeedRacer]

ALL Schools to which you have been accepeted will require an official transcript. While some schools will directly recommend that you submit your fall unofficial or official transcript (e.g. hold emails from schools like Pritzker), a solid academic record has a good chance of influencing admissions committees at rolling and non-rolling schools to re-review your app and re-consider for an interview.

This is a litle more vague for post-interview cases, as schools often make decisions a few days after your interview and release fianl decisions on certain days. In the worst case scenarion, if you are on a post-interview hold or teetering between an acceptance or waitlist, it could definetly be the determining factor.

I am speaking from the experience of calling all the schools I applied to, and their staff definetly suggested submitting a transcript witht he ntion that it would be reviewed.

what if you're not in school anymore and just took 1 class? i did pretty crappy so i'm not sending the grade....hopefully nobody will notice? it wasn't a requirement or anything, but an upper level science class.

 

[BooMed]

what if you're not in school anymore and just took 1 class? i did pretty crappy so i'm not sending the grade....hopefully nobody will notice? it wasn't a requirement or anything, but an upper level science class.

Did you put it on AMCAS?

 

[wowzer]

what if you're not in school anymore and just took 1 class? i did pretty crappy so i'm not sending the grade....hopefully nobody will notice? it wasn't a requirement or anything, but an upper level science class.

my instinct tells me that you would have to report the grade. If you put it on AMCAS, then the schools are expecting some sort of grade or explanation for why you put that course down.
If you are accepted at a school, they would definitely need to see the grade eventually (official transcript), no question about it.
If you are waiting for an interview (see my above post), then I guess you don't have to immediately report it (unless specifically asked by a school), as other posters are right in that most schools don't actually require anything at this time. But I wouldn't know if one grade would be significant in swaying adcom's decisions one way or the other, unless it is a very important/required class.

 

[diosa428]

my instinct tells me that you would have to report the grade. If you put it on AMCAS, then the schools are expecting some sort of grade or explanation for why you put that course down.
If you are accepted at a school, they would definitely need to see the grade eventually (official transcript), no question about it.
If you are waiting for an interview (see my above post), then I guess you don't have to immediately report it (unless specifically asked by a school), as other posters are right in that most schools don't actually require anything at this time. But I wouldn't know if one grade would be significant in swaying adcom's decisions one way or the other, unless it is a very important/required class.

In other words, don't tell them unless they ask you, or at least wait until after they accept you 😉

 

[Emergency!]

If you have a crappy grade that you are concerned about, I wouldn't send a transcript with fall grades unless a school specifically asks for it.

I had a similar situation last year (C in biochem) and did not send any updated transcripts to schools (four interviews were after fall grades came out). If asked what my grade was (because I put the course down on my AMCAS), I answered truthfully, but otherwise it was never mentioned.

Unless a school has an early deadline for submitting transcripts once you are accepted, you can probably wait until graduate and have decided which school you are matriculating at. This will save you the cost of sending multiple transcripts out.

 

[SpeedRacer]

If you have a crappy grade that you are concerned about, I wouldn't send a transcript with fall grades unless a school specifically asks for it.

I had a similar situation last year (C in biochem) and did not send any updated transcripts to schools (four interviews were after fall grades came out). If asked what my grade was (because I put the course down on my AMCAS), I answered truthfully, but otherwise it was never mentioned.

Unless a school has an early deadline for submitting transcripts once you are accepted, you can probably wait until graduate and have decided which school you are matriculating at. This will save you the cost of sending multiple transcripts out.

yeah. the school i'm accepted at doesn't even care that i'm not taking the second semester of the class (i called). i'll just wait until they ask me. they're so busy, like they actually give a crap what i got in this one class. they apparently aren't looking close enough to see that they've had my application for SIX MONTHS....jeez.

i'll just wait until they want it. if they want it, i'll send it. whatever.

i bet they're all sitting at their desks day and night being like "where is speedracer's biochem grade?? we've been waiting forever.....where could it be....any day now....any.....day......now"