High School Transcript

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CallSignGaspar

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I sent a high school transcript on January 22, 2019 (Tuesday) Guam to Annapolis.

I sent it via Priority International Mail which makes the delivery faster; although, it is still in transit until now January 27, 2019 (Sunday) Guam time.

I'm worried that this won't make it to Annapolis and be reviewed/ checked off from my application by January 31, 2019 which is the deadline. Is there anything I can do to compensate problems like these or at least have a backup?

FYI: I finished all the other requirements for the application ( Qualified in DoDMERB, Congressional Nomination etc.) This is the last thing on my profile.
 
Contact them tomorrow and see if you can fax a copy and provide them tracking info as proof maybe?
 
Admissions will take transcripts postmarked by the deadline. That being said, since you are sending from Guam, I would send an email to your Admissions counselor and tell them its coming.
Of course, I would be asking the question --why are you waiting until the last minute ?
 
I'm with Old Navy BGO here. Why did you wait so long to send something that was asked for up front, when the application process began more than 9 months ago?
I wish you the best of luck getting that last piece checked in before Thursday. At least tracking is included in that delivery format. Let us know how it goes!
 
As mentioned as long as its post marked by Jan 31 they will accept it. The chances it’s posted by then, probably low as they are going to be inundated with mail this week.
 
Old Navy BGO said:
Admissions will take transcripts postmarked by the deadline. That being said, since you are sending from Guam, I would send an email to your Admissions counselor and tell them its coming.
Of course, I would be asking the question --why are you waiting until the last minute ?
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Pardon, what do you mean by postmarked?
 
CallSignGaspar said:
Pardon, what do you mean by postmarked?
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Ah - a 21st century question! When you deliver mail into the hands of the USPS, and they accept it into their system, they “postmark” it with a physical dated stamp through the postage. Mail can actually be hand-stamped at a USPS counter if you want to watch them do it. That proves it left your hands that day, and any subsequent delay in delivery is not your fault. So, if the deadline is “postmarked by X date,” and your piece of mail’s postmark shows X date or earlier, you are good to go.

In most areas, if you get it to the Post Office or into a drop box on X day before the posted collection time, all that mail goes to a bulk collection point, where it feeds into sorters that postmark and sort by zip for further delivery routing.

Snail mail 101, check!
 
Give the admission office a call just to confirm but I believe they base it on the postmark.
 
Hashbrowns and eggs said:
If my Admissions officer told me he doesn't need my midyear transcript, is that a good sign?
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It means nothing more or less than what he said, "They do not need your transcript.". It could be they have confidence in how you did, and therefore don't need to see it. It could be someone on the slate is so far above you they don't need to see it. There are lots of reasons they may not need to see it. The significance of that means absolutely nothing at this point. Be patient. Do not try to read the tea leaves.... there are no tea leaves. (Hat tip to The Matrix").
 
A1Janitor said:
Hashbrowns and eggs said:
A1Janitor said:
Hashbrowns and eggs said:
If my Admissions officer told me he doesn't need my midyear transcript, is that a good sign?
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Yes. They told my son the same thing.
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Was he appointed?
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He is LOA with 103.2 weighted average. 4.0 straight A unweighted average earning associate degree from CC before he graduates high school.

Needs waiver for colorblindness.
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I hope your son gets the waiver, wonderful grades and quite an impressive accomplishment earning an associate degree while in high school. Good luck to him!
 
kinnem said:
...Do not try to read the tea leaves.... there are no tea leaves...
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"As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and... you help your landlady carry out the garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not."
 
My son did not have his requested and he contacted admissions last week as he was named Salutatorian. His school waits until the end of the 7th semester to add weights which I think is goofy as his rank went from 10 to 2. That’s a big difference. His admissions counselor said thanks for updating and congrats but nothing more. [emoji79]
 
Love4monsters said:
His school waits until the end of the 7th semester to add weights which I think is goofy as his rank went from 10 to 2. That’s a big difference. [emoji79]
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DS's school doesn't weight grades or rank. It still confuses me how USNA can reconcile such disparate methods of reporting one's HS record.
 
Love4monsters said:
My son did not have his requested and he contacted admissions last week as he was named Salutatorian. His school waits until the end of the 7th semester to add weights which I think is goofy as his rank went from 10 to 2. That’s a big difference. His admissions counselor said thanks for updating and congrats but nothing more. [emoji79]
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That’s awesome!

My son thought he was third in his class in 9th grade and 10th because that’s what his report card said. We then found out they include students in the list that don’t qualify - they are remedial students.

Now the school goes unweighted first three quarters and the last report card in a year gives weighted.

My son figured out in 8th grade that it hurts his average to take nonweighted courses. So he added weighted classes when he could and dropped unweighted throughout high school.
 
ders_dad said:
Love4monsters said:
His school waits until the end of the 7th semester to add weights which I think is goofy as his rank went from 10 to 2. That’s a big difference. [emoji79]
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DS's school doesn't weight grades or rank. It still confuses me how USNA can reconcile such disparate methods of reporting one's HS record.
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My son’s principal told me he had to send a report to Naval Academy with statistics of his class and the school. That with SATs gives them a good idea.

My son’s guidance counselor told him that she has his grades memorized because she was required to send his info as valedictorian to other schools as a benchmark for his peers.

We had a very smart class this year. I think there were 3 or 4 that had 1500 or higher on SATs and a bunch more over 1400 in top ten.

One girl 7th in his class has to explain why her 100.5 average was only 7 to Cornell.
 
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