Attention:
Due to a recent surge in applications, we are currently over capacity. In order to provide the best possible service to our current applicants, we will be unable to accept any new applications until further notice. All current applications will be processed as close to the scheduled time as possible.
Due to high volumes, we are currently accepting only a limited number of applications for evaluation until further notice. Please call or email with a brief description of your academic credentials before applying to see if your application will be accepted. College and university transcripts for further education have the greatest chance of being processed. We are also currently unable to offer rush service processing at this time.
Before contacting us, please be sure to check the requirements page at http://www.transcriptresearch.com/Requirements to ensure that you are able to meet the country-specific requirements for evaluation.
We have a slew of new information regarding AACRAO, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Next week is the AACRAO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, and we’re pleased to announce that our director is presenting or co-presenting two sessions: “International Credential Evaluation: Using the Internet” and “Update on the Education System of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Handouts and presentations will be available online here after the presentations next week.
Many of the handouts are already available online at http://handouts.aacrao.org/am12/display.php
The conference looks great with 30 (yes! thirty!) sessions related to international credentials, international admissions, and other issues relevant to international education. http://www2.aacrao.org/MeetingPublic/searchSession/meetingId/387740000000E/
AACRAO now has an online message board specifically for international educators and activities. You can sign up for it online at http://lists.aacrao.org/mailman/listinfo/internationalactivities
We hope to see you at AACRAO next week!
Are you new to international credentials evaluations? Do you work with international transcripts but don’t do the actual evaluations because you don’t understand them? Have you hoped to learn to evaluate but never known where to even begin? This session from the 2012 NAFSA Texas State Meeting will provide a very brief introduction to some of the most basic aspects of evaluating academic credentials from other countries and point you in the right direction to develop your own learning plan for furthering your skills given the time, budget and support you have.
Due to our current workload, it is with regret that we inform you that we are currently unable to accept Rush applications until further notice. For anyone who has already submitted a Rush application, your priority processing will still be accommodated, but we are unable to accept any more Rush applications at this time. Regular applications that do not require rush processing are still moving smoothly, but we do not have the staffing levels to accommodate the recent surge in Rush applications. Our apologies.
It is our pleasure to announce the major overhaul of our e-book, “Researching International Education Systems and Institutions” revised for 2012.
The new edition is organized in a different (but hopefully more user-friendly) manner, contains hundreds of new links, and has removed a bunch of links that weren’t as useful as we had hoped they might have been.
While all of these links have been checked in the last 2-3 months, some of them are undoubtedly outdated already. If you come across things that aren’t working anymore (already!) or things that you think should be there, drop us a line at info@transcriptresearch.com
Thanks for all of your support,
Transcript Research
As our holiday gift to you, we are in the process of finalizing some changes to our two major e-publications, “Bogus Institutions and Accrediting Bodies List” and “Researching International Education Systems and Institutions.” The former has been temporarily removed while we make some adjustments to better facilitate its use, and the latter will hopefully be updated right around the start of the new year (but with about 400 pages and thousands of links, many of the links are outdated by the time we get through the update process!).
Happy holidays from Transcript Research!
Transcript Research will be temporarily closed from 11/30 to 12/06. We will re-open on December 7.
Because of this brief closure, we will not be able to accept any Rush applications after 11/23 until after we re-open on December 7. All other applications received during this time will continue to be evaluated in the standard 3-week turnaround time.
Timeline:
present date to November 22 – business as usual
November 23 to November 30 – all pending Rush files completed; no new Rush applications accepted until December 7
November 30 to December 6 – temporarily closed
December 7 – business as usual; Rush applications will be accepted again
We are thrilled to formally announce that Transcript Research is now a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).
Our free e-book, Bogus Institutions and Accrediting Bodies, has been updated. We were finding that too many people were not actually reading it and just using the lists as a definitive source of unaccredited schools so we have made some modifications. Whenever confusion has arisen about an institution on the list and a similarly-named institution, we have added more details to help clarify the situation. We have also added some information about faith-based institutions and the unique challenges they provide. As a reminder, Transcript Research has not personally confirmed the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the institutions or accrediting bodies on the lists in this book. We have simply consolidated lists of suspect institutions and accrediting bodies that have been identified by others; the original sources are linked within the document.
