#12: Transcripts

In a similar vein, request transcripts in the summer. I had another disastrous experience where I’d requested transcripts from the University of Greenwich in London in early October. The office reported that it would take several weeks to process my order because they were currently in the middle of registration for the fall semester. Apparently the same office deals with both transcripts and registration! When they finally sent them off, I waited for weeks, to eventually surmise that, like my recs, they had also been lost. I had to re-order transcripts and received them only after several deadlines had passed (I had submitted very unofficial photocopies in lieu of official ones). When I did finally receive them, I discovered that the office had failed to seal the transcripts in envelopes, instead sending me sheets of my grades! These obviously were unacceptable. The process was only resolved in late December when I finally received the original lost set of sealed transcripts. Because of this disaster, several applications had to be sent out incomplete.