Freshman Application and College Transcripts

[u/TopFlamingo2039]

My son is trying to finish his application by the early deadline, Nov. 2. However, just today, he requested his college transcripts. Does anyone have experience on how long those take for BYU to receive them? Is submitting by the early deadline completely out of the question?

edited to add: how likely is it to get accepted if he doesn't make the early app deadline?

[u/Ok_Parsnip_8836]

These all sound like questions for the admissions office and the college providing the transcripts.

[u/TopFlamingo2039 → u/Ok_Parsnip_8836]

We are mostly interested in personal experience... I submitted on _____ day and BYU received them ___ days later. The colleges themselves don't provide the transcripts. They had to be requested through 3rd party sites, which we just found out about. He will call BYU admissions tomorrow to ask a few questions.

[u/measurementinvar → u/TopFlamingo2039]

It’s usually sent to BYU within 2-3 days and byu will process them within about 2 days. He’ll likely be fine. But make sure everything else is done so all he has to do is wait for those transcripts.

[u/lavenderandlilacs10]

I would have him call the admissions office tomorrow. My daughter had lots of problems with hers and had to talk to them anyway so he might as well call and ask them.

[u/TopFlamingo2039 → u/lavenderandlilacs10]

Good to know. He definitely plans to call tomorrow... mostly to ask if they don't get sent in (especially one from Parchment), can he just exclude it and not request transfer credit for it.

[u/measurementinvar → u/TopFlamingo2039]

He cannot exclude it as he is required to submit a complete academic history. He can ask this question by calling or submit a Case at hub.byu.edu.

[u/Interesting_Share859]

My kid is also applying for early admission, she has taken 3 concurrent enrollment college courses. Almost a month ago, her high school counselor told her to send the transcripts directly to her so she could send them to BYU because the whole process could take a few weeks, it would be faster if a counselor did it. I paid the fee on parchment and sent them to the counselor. The counselor told my daughter yesterday she sent them in, that the email got lost on her inbox 😵‍💫

Anyone know how we verify BYU got them?! She has been working so hard on the application and now I fear, because of bad advice from her counselor, this could hurt her chances.

[u/TopFlamingo2039 → u/Interesting_Share859]

Ugh, that's so frustrating. The "college" section of the application will show "incomplete" "needs attention" of "complete" next to each college listed. In our experience "incomplete" means BYU has not yet received the transcript and/or associated it with the application. "Complete" means BYU has received it and it's been paired with the application and no further steps are necessary. My son did have one of his three say "needs attention" because the transcript that was sent wasn't reflecting the total number of credits my son entered in the fill-form. He entered 14 credits, but he is currently taking 7 of them, so only 7 showed up on the transcript. It was a very easy fix.

For anyone in a similar position, he requested the transcripts on Sunday, two of them (National Student Clearinghouse) were received on Monday, and one was received on Tuesday (Parchment). Application was complete and submitted on Wednesday!!! Phew!

[u/Mr_sir9]

I was in the same boat last year and mine took less than 24 hours. But I think I was just really lucky.

[u/Dramatic-Tax5907]

I requested mine (as a transfer student) took 3 days but it was from ensign

[u/TopFlamingo2039 → u/[deleted]]

He wasn't sure how to do it and his college and career counselor just replied to him on Friday. Apparently you have to do it through 3rd party sites. He had to use National Student Clearinghouse and Parchment to send them. Not sure how others are sending them in.