The George Washington University Law School Career Development Office Transcript Information Updated February 2008 The CDO offers these guidelines about dealing with transcripts when sending to employers or completing online applications: 1. Online Transcripts. Do NOT use your Gweb portal transcript. The online transcript is simply for your own personal use. Your GPA is not reflected out to 3 decimal points as required by the Academic Recognition and Grade Representation Policy (on line at www.law.gwu.edu/cdo then “Information for Students” and then “Important Policies”). Nor does this online version include your name or any identifying information when you print it out (by design, no one wants to print out a transcript by mistake to a random printer and have their fellow students see their grades). 2. Official vs. Unoffical Transcript. The BEST transcript to use is the UNOFFICIAL transcript from Rice Hall. For more information on ordering transcripts click here or go to http://www.gwu.edu/~regweb/web-content/transcripts.html. When mailing out letters and applications, you can use a photocopy of this transcript. The photocopy will say “copy” on it, but that’s OK. You do not need to spend $10 and order OFFICIAL transcripts for the vast majority of employers. Also, photo copying an official transcript has the unfortunate result of stating “void” all over the copy. 3. Electronic Version of Transcripts. When you are sending a transcript via email, the BEST method is to send a pdf version of your unofficial transcript from Rice Hall. You can go to any local copy center (or you can go to the second floor copy center in the Law School) and scan your transcript and turn it into a pdf version. You should use that pdf when contacting employers via email. 4. Self-Prepared Grade Sheet. When applying for jobs online through Symplicity or when using other online systems that have limits to the size of files that can be uploaded, the scanned pdf version of your unofficial transcript is usually too large. We recommend that in those instances, you create a Word document entitled “Self Prepared Grade Sheet” and type in all of the information from your unofficial transcript into this document. We have linked here a template, a sample, and instructions for creating a “Self-Prepared Grade Sheet.”