The College Office will begin to send mid-year transcripts for seniors on Monday, February 5. 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.
-Any CR requests in TALOS closed on February 2 at noon. Class of 2024 families who submit CR requests from 2/6 onward will see the grade changed on the transcript; but it will not be reflected on mid-year reports sent to colleges.
The college office reminds you to 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 two and a half years, CRs on student transcripts are a red-flag for colleges unless a compelling explanation is provided by the applicant.
-- 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 rigorous than what 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 5 if you did not see that when first shared with you.
