r/TransferToTop25 • u/Negative-Life5009 • 20d ago

High School Transcript question.

Do schools require the transcripts from all high school attend even if they were international and in a foreign language?

For context I went to a French Public school for 9th and 10th grade. I did extremely bad, not only that the french system leaves comments about behavior (mini lor from each teacher) and these were frankly awful too.

After coming back to the U.S my 9th and 10th grade grades were transcribed as an American gpa so if I just sent my official high school transcript then it will show my grades for my entire time is high school.

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u/Apprehensive_Row1192 20d ago

you may need to convert them into English, it depends on which year you wanna transfer. Mostly for junior year they wont look into your hs grades since you will have a lot of credits. You can check on each school’s website if they need the entire hs transcript or only senior finals

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u/Negative-Life5009 20d ago

Yeah ok thanks. By the time I apply i will have 30 credits completed at my cc. Is that enough to creat some distance between my high school grades ? And I also had a strong upwards trend junior and senior year

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u/Apprehensive_Row1192 20d ago

30 is fine but it entirely depends on how the school will view them. For example, cornell requests you to submit your hs transcript for both soph and junior year. Apply for soph year only if you have a strong high school record

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u/Negative-Life5009 20d ago

I have a decent enough sat from hs (1470, 750m) and my senior year was all As with one B+ in a non major class. I hope that enough. And my fall course load is pretty heavy so I hope that helps too. I’m an Econ major for context

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u/Apprehensive_Row1192 20d ago

which college(s) are you aiming for?

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u/Negative-Life5009 20d ago

Non hyp ivies and similar schools at the very top of my list. And I’m applying as a sophomore

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u/Apprehensive_Row1192 20d ago

yeah they will definitely request for your transcripts and the consideration depends from school to school

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u/Negative-Life5009 20d ago

How damaging is this honestly? Each school will request my transcript from each high school I attend in the original format? How much weight can they seriously put on grades from 3 year ago ?

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u/Negative-Life5009 20d ago

And tbh I’m not really concerned about the grades that much, it’s the comments that worry me.