Some Wisconsin high school students will be able to send their official transcripts to college electronically this year under a new statewide e-transcript initiative.
The initiative is an attempt to get state high schools to offer online transcripts of courses and grades, one of the last pieces of the college application that canâ??t be sent electronically for many students.
“It really removes the hassle factor,” said Mari McCarty, vice president of WAICU, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and part of a statewide task force that implemented the initiative. “The application itself is already online. The one piece that remains stubbornly on paper is the transcript.”