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The transcript is a permanent record of a student's academic history at a particular institution. It includes an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned throughout a course. It often includes details such as GPA, name of degree program, minor course of study, major disciplinary actions (e.g. suspension or expulsion), or honors earned.

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Why does an admissions committee need to look at the whole transcript?

The problem with GPA as a measure is that it just mixes together a bunch of different classes indiscriminately. Consider these three different students: This student is pretty steady, but not great …
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My name on transcript has no surname. Should I list it as a "former name" when applying for ...

It sounds like the forms you have been provided already give a sufficient means of clarifying, particularly you indicate the form is specifically meant to link a current full name to an alternative sh …
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Is there a better measure of undergraduate academic performance than GPA?

I believe that there cannot be any single numerical statistic or small set of such statistics that summarizes the nature of a student well. The first reason for my assessment is that there are too ma …
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