Comment by lozenge
16 hours ago
Why don't they just email a form after/when you apply and you fill in all the grades in a structured data way? How many grades are we talking about here. Then the PDF would just be the proof that your grades were real.
Because you'd have to get thousands of schools to agree to using the same format.
Does the student not have access to the grades? As they are applying to medical school, a few hours of drudgery form filling will still be the easiest part of the process.
It's a bit complicated. Each school has their own grading system (some pass fail, others four tiered, others full letter grades). Additionally, there are reported distributions for each grade. Lastly, there's sometimes a summary statement at the end that usually says "X student was 'superlative'" and then a table at the end that says 'superlative' means top X% of class. On top of that, students may not get their full dean's letter that says all of this stuff. Basically, self reporting is very difficult to do given the amount of variability in grade reporting.
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