Category: Transcripts

What a final transcript is, when it shows your graduation date and degree conferral, when high schools send it to colleges, and what if grades drop.

Order an official transcript through a registrar, Parchment, or the National Student Clearinghouse. Published fees, processing times, and transcript holds.

A diploma says you graduated. A transcript is the record employers, colleges, licensing boards and evaluators actually ask for. See who wants which.

Colleges and high schools keep transcripts permanently. See the AACRAO and state retention rules, transcript holds since 2024, and how to get an old copy.

Most transcripts never say a course was online. What registrars actually print, and how employers and grad schools read transfers, repeats and W grades.

A degree transcript is the academic record that shows your degree and conferral date. What it lists, when official copies are required, how to order one.

“Uncut” means a complete, unaltered transcript: every school, every term, every grade. What registrars call it, who asks for one, and how to request it.

What a fake or novelty transcript is, how registrars and admissions offices catch forged ones, what happens when they do, and lawful uses of a replica.

An unofficial transcript is your own copy of the school’s record. See how registrars define official, when unofficial is accepted, and how to get one free.

An academic transcript is your school’s official record of courses, grades and credits. What it contains, who asks to see it, and how to get a copy.