-The College Office will begin to send mid-year transcripts for seniors on Monday, February 6. This is not an issue for colleges requesting mid-year grades for regular decision that may have posted earlier deadlines; those deadlines are always contingent upon the availability of said grades based upon varying high school calendars.
-Families must make any CR requests in TALOS ASAP in accordance with the instructions/deadline that you will soon receive via email and that will be included in the next Stuy update. However, please do remember that the CR policy was a pandemic era measure created to assist students facing hardship as a direct result of the pandemic. This was not intended to be a perpetual tool through which students can inflate their gpas. Now that you have all have been back in school in -person, full time, for a second year, CRs on student transcripts are going to be more of a red-flag for colleges unless a compelling explanation is provided by the applicant.
-Check with your teacher immediately if you catch a mistake or omission in your senior grades and offer them a friendly reminder that they must officially change the grade in conjunction with the Program Office ASAP since your final fall term grades must be sent to colleges.
- Admissions officers expect students to follow through with their academic commitments throughout the entire senior year. They expect you to be honest when reporting your course schedule. If your schedule is less demanding than you had reported this fall, it is your responsibility to inform the colleges about significant differences between what you reported you would be taking this spring when you applied, and what you are actually taking. More specifically, you must inform colleges if you dropped AP or other college level coursework for the spring term. This should be done by sending a concise email to each college’s office of undergraduate admission explaining why the schedule change was required. Or, upload a concise explanation in the college’s applicant portal.
-if you were deferred to a college early and plan on reaffirming your interest with that college but have not already done so, do it now. Revisit our email to all seniors from December 6 if you did not see that when first shared with you.
