Transcripts (undergraduate)

What to send

Upload your own copies with the rest of your application.

• A transcript from every college or university you have attended, including any you left.
• Your high school transcript, or the equivalent, if you have not yet started at a college or university. A diploma, a GED, or your leaving exam results all count as the equivalent.
• Graduate applicants use this same form. If you have not started your graduate program, send your undergraduate transcript and your confirmation of admission or enrollment.

A midyear transcript or a mid-term report is not required.

Unofficial copies are accepted

A scan, a photograph, or a PDF from your student portal all count. It does not need a seal, a signature, a stamp, or an envelope.

We ask for official transcripts only if you are selected. At that point your institution sends them directly. Nobody has to order records while you are applying.

You may translate them yourself

If a transcript is not in English, send the original and a translation. You, a family member, or your institution may do the translation. It does not need a notary or a paid translation service.

Put the original and the translation in the same file where you can, and keep the course names in the order the original uses.

What not to upload

We do not read test scores, honors or awards lists, resumes, portfolios and work samples.

Uploading them does not help and does not count against you. The transcript tells us what we need to know about your course work.

There is no college report

No dean, advisor, or registrar fills anything in. We retired the college report, so nobody at your institution has to enter your grade point average or confirm your standing. An advisor may recommend you, like any other adult, but that is a separate and voluntary thing.

If your institution sends the transcript for you

You do not need this for the first reading. If your registrar will only release records itself, it can email them to credentials@goalgetit.org. Ask for your full legal name and the name of the institution to appear on the document.

Documents sent by an institution take time to process. Check your application status in the portal rather than emailing to ask, and see After you apply.