Many businesses and institutions hiring key personnel ask applicants to
instruct his/her university to send an official transcipt with seal directly
to the employer. This is not so much to ponder over a "B" or an "A" in
various courses, but to determine the person did indeed graduate with a given
degree. Every now and then one reads about a poseur who claimed degrees,
graduation, etc., and later it is discovered the person falsified credentials.
Transcripts, from this perspective, protects the forthright applicant and a
potential employer.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis
roberts) wrote:
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>At 12:09 PM 12/28/99 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote:<br>
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><blockquote type=cite cite>What is definitely NOT needed is a
>"transcript". Those who<br>
>think that this record indicates what the student knows and<br>
>can do is at least badly mistaken. </blockquote><br>
><br>
>well, whether it is called a transcript .... or something else ... we DO
>need some record of what the student did (i don't think having the
>student say ... "I went to Purdue ... " would be sufficient)...
>and, what courses a student took ... and even grades .... are helpful
>..... <br>
><br>
>i don't think anyone would equate grades on the transcript with what the
>student knows but ... i will be a dime to a penny that if you saw a
>transcript for two students (from comparable institutions) where one got
>mostly Cs ... and the other got mostly As ... that we CAN assume that one
>has learned alot more than the other ... <br>
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