Transcripts
In support of your application, the Graduate School requires one copy of the official, confidential transcript from each institution (undergraduate or graduate) that you have attended or are currently attending. Essential to the review of your application will be transcripts from any institution where you earned (or will earn) a degree, studied for one semester or more, or took classes that relate to your current application for graduate study (for example, prerequisite courses).
Transcripts should be submitted to the Graduate School in confidential, signed-across-the-seal envelopes provided to you by the registrar at each institution. It is critical that the transcripts be in confidential envelopes. Personal copies of your records, or copies that have been viewed by you, and are therefore not confidential, are unacceptable and will be regarded as unofficial. The transcripts may pass through your hands provided the officially sealed envelopes remain unopened and not viewed by you. If your school will not provide you with a confidential copy of your transcript, it will be necessary to request the registrar send an official copy to us directly. If you anticipate a delay in the sending of official, confidential transcripts, you may still send unofficial copies for review purposes only. You must make every effort to provide us with the official transcripts before the application deadline in order for your application to be considered complete.
We must also receive certification of degrees received, including the date the degree was awarded. This information may be included on the final transcript or on the diploma.
NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: The academic records that we refer to as transcripts should provide a listing, year-by-year, of all courses taken and the grade or mark received for each one. It is helpful to have the grading scale of the institution and the student's rank in class included when such information is available. Do not submit secondary school records. Transcripts must bear an official signature in ink of the appropriate official of your institution(s), such as the registrar or recorder of records, and must bear the institutional seal. We are aware that some schools issue only one official transcript and diploma or certificate of degree completion. If this is the case for the school(s) you attended, you should not send these documents to us since no materials submitted in support of an application will be released for other purposes or returned to the applicant. You should send instead exact copies that have been stamped as "Certified True Copies" by the appropriate institutional official of each institution that you attended. Copies not certified by a school official are unacceptable. If you are admitted to the Graduate School, you may be requested to present your original documents for verification purposes upon matriculation but these will be returned directly to you. To be considered, all documents not in English must be accompanied by official English translations. These translations must bear an original ink signature and seal, and translations alone will not be acceptable.