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So I did a pretty thorough transcript on excel, printed signed and then scanned and saved as a pdf. But its reading as 2MB and the college application site wants it 1MB? Any suggestions? I was hoping to add the transcript and course descriptions (which I did in word) as a single document but the size is an issue. This may be an issue for common app (I haven't gotten there yet, was trying to get his early descision non common app one done)

 

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The problem is the scanning turned your whole document into high resolution images.

 

Sign a blank sheet of paper, scan that, trim and import that as one image into your transcript. Export your word doc as PDF.

 

If that doesn't fix it, use smallpdf as in above post. (But you'll need a document of for stated text, not a document of scanned images for good results.)

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Just save it into pdf directly from Excel without scanning.

If it is still too big, you are probably using non standard fonts that need to be specifically embedded within the file; switching to one of the seven Adobe standard fonts will avoid this.

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Your're right if I just save the excel as a pdf with no signature its the correct size.

 

So are you guys not signing the transcript on the bottom where you would put school administrator etc? I'll see if I can copy and paste the signature otherwise I guess just write "electronically signed" 

 

 

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Your're right if I just save the excel as a pdf with no signature its the correct size.

 

So are you guys not signing the transcript on the bottom where you would put school administrator etc? I'll see if I can copy and paste the signature otherwise I guess just write "electronically signed" 

 

I just typed my name. None of the colleges my kids applied to had any issue with that. Really, as soon as it is in electronic form, a scanned handwritten signature is not any more "official" than a typed one.

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Also does anyone know how to combine pdfs into one document? The transcript is vertically aligned and the course descriptions are landscape view. When I try to combine them it keeps changing the other view to the first to make them all the same.

 

I uploaded the course descriptions as a second transcript. I wanted to keep the actual transcript as a separate file.

 

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I uploaded the course descriptions as a second transcript. I wanted to keep the actual transcript as a separate file.

 

 

Regentrude--just curious... Why did you want the actual transcript as a separate file. I was thinking of uploading both transcript (as first page) and course descriptions as a single, multi-page document. The transcript would be the first page, so it would still be "front & center," and the course descriptions would all follow so the reader wouldn't have to go looking for a second document.

 

Now I'm wondering if there's a downside to doing it like that?  (Probably just personal preference, but thought I'd ask.)

 

Thank you!  And thank you, again, for taking the time to field all these questions for those of us new to the whole college app process!

yvonne

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Regentrude--just curious... Why did you want the actual transcript as a separate file. I was thinking of uploading both transcript (as first page) and course descriptions as a single, multi-page document. The transcript would be the first page, so it would still be "front & center," and the course descriptions would all follow so the reader wouldn't have to go looking for a second document.

 

Now I'm wondering if there's a downside to doing it like that?  (Probably just personal preference, but thought I'd ask.)

 

Thank you!  And thank you, again, for taking the time to field all these questions for those of us new to the whole college app process!

yvonne

 

I don't think it matters at all. In the Common App, it all becomes one thing, because the CA creates one huge pdf of the entire school portion of the application

So, they will see the school report and school profile, followed by the counselor letter, followed by the transcript, followed by the course descriptions, all in that one huge file. DD's had 15 pages and was 3.8 Megabytes.

 

I just felt that the transcript is a separate document from the course descriptions and thus kept them as separate files. In the mid-year and final updates, you will only upload the updated transcript, not new course descriptions.

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Thanks, Regentrude!  Didn't know if I was missing something that would come back to bite me. I didn't realize that the CommApp created one huge pdf of the school portion. Sounds like everything will be kept together no matter where I upload the course descriptions. 

Thank you!

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Your're right if I just save the excel as a pdf with no signature its the correct size.

 

So are you guys not signing the transcript on the bottom where you would put school administrator etc? I'll see if I can copy and paste the signature otherwise I guess just write "electronically signed" 

 

 I keep several scanned signatures on file on my laptop anyway, so I just added one of those to the document before saving it as a PDF.

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