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Final Academic Statements in Context of Your Transcript
The Evergreen Transcript Traditional college transcripts are a few pages long, but your Evergreen transcript is likely to be 10–50 pages. The length of your Evergreen transcript will depend on how long you attended Evergreen and whether you choose to include Self-Evaluations.
Every Evergreen transcript includes:
Page 1: A Cover Sheet about Evergreen
• Provides a description of how Evergreen operates by using interdisciplinary programs as well as courses, and how our system is based on narrations of academic achievements and credits instead of grades.
Pages 2 and 3: A Record of Your Academic Achievement
• Your degree will be listed at the top and then the date, for example:
“Bachelor of Arts, 2022”. • If you transfered credits from other schools, the title of the institution and the sum of the credits you earned there will be listed by institution at the top of the page. • Your Evergreen undergraduate credits will be listed by course/program title in chronological order. » Your transcript does not show the credits you attempted, but only the credits you earned. So if you lost one credit in a four-credit class, your
Record of Academic Achievement will simply say that you earned “3 credits” not “3 out of 4” credits. » The credits you earned are broken down into a summary list. These are called, “course equivalencies,” and they describe the subject area you received credit in.
Pages 3 and 4: Your Final Academic Statement
• This is the first page of your transcript that is in narrative form, in other words it is not a list or series of points with headings. It’s your opportunity to speak directly to the reader about the listed information they just read and how it relates to your academic experience. This is the page this guide is all about!
• The remaining pages contain sets of documents for each course or program you took at Evergreen.
Each set includes: » Your faculty’s description of the course or program » Their evaluation of your achievement (a.k.a. “Faculty
Evaluation of Student Achievement”) » Your Final Self-Evaluation (if you choose to include it) • These are listed in reverse chronological order in your transcript. This means your most recent course or program will be listed first and your first course or program will be listed last in the final pages of your transcript.
Your Voice in Your Transcript
• Program descriptions and Faculty Evaluations of Student
Achievement are written by your faculty. First, your faculty describes the course or program content and expectations. Then, your faculty describes how you’ve engaged with that course or program content. • Your Academic Statement and Final Self-Evaluations are where you can add your voice to the discussion. They provide an opportunity to supplement or add to the picture that your faculty paint in their Evaluation of
Student Achievement.
