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Many of the astro PhD programs I applied to had deadlines on dec 15th. I submitted these applications without any of my fall grades available. I have since sent emails to the admissions administrators at many of the schools I'm applying to asking if they will update my application with the most current version of my transcript (with fall semester grades). I'm now seeing that this might have been stupid, since some programs might not want to see these. Did I screw up here?

Many of the programs have responded saying that they'll update my file with the new transcript. So I guess that's good?

I did the same thing, more than half of the schools I applied to had a direct method right on my portal to upload either an updated transcript or a fall grade report. I emailed the remaining and all replaced my submitted transcript with the updated one without issue. I don't see how this can be a bad thing, especially if you had a good fall semester.

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Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:00 pm

I did the same thing, more than half of the schools I applied to had a direct method right on my portal to upload either an updated transcript or a fall grade report. I emailed the remaining and all replaced my submitted transcript with the updated one without issue. I don't see how this can be a bad thing, especially if you had a good fall semester.

Yeah, I guess I just don't want to nag the department unnecessarily. Also I'm anxious... this process has got me all sorts of ways lol. What is done is done, I suppose.