(05-21-2019, 11:11 AM)saraholson Wrote: Hey everyone, I have a very specific / odd question for anyone who may know the answer. If not, i will call TESU and try to get ahold of one of the admissions staff... just thought i would try here first.

When i was younger (maybe 10 years ago) i had enrolled in community college, but wasn't able to attend because my job at the time changed their mind and wouldn't work around my schedule for classes. I attended only one day of class and then had to withdraw. 

Fast forward a decade later and I had my legal name changed, first and last, so i have a totally different name - but the same SSN....

My question is, do i have to try to get ahold of these transcripts from that college i withdrew from, in order to graduate from TESU. I am concerned about it because I don't know how i will be able to get the transcripts since all my ID's have long since had my revised names on them. I don't have anything to show I am that person i 'used' to be when I enrolled at the community college... weird situation i know...

thanks in advance

(05-21-2019, 11:34 AM)dfrecore Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:11 AM)saraholson Wrote: Hey everyone, I have a very specific / odd question for anyone who may know the answer. If not, i will call TESU and try to get ahold of one of the admissions staff... just thought i would try here first.

When i was younger (maybe 10 years ago) i had enrolled in community college, but wasn't able to attend because my job at the time changed their mind and wouldn't work around my schedule for classes. I attended only one day of class and then had to withdraw. 

Fast forward a decade later and I had my legal name changed, first and last, so i have a totally different name - but the same SSN....

My question is, do i have to try to get ahold of these transcripts from that college i withdrew from, in order to graduate from TESU. I am concerned about it because I don't know how i will be able to get the transcripts since all my ID's have long since had my revised names on them. I don't have anything to show I am that person i 'used' to be when I enrolled at the community college... weird situation i know...

thanks in advance

You don't have a birth certificate?  Or any paperwork to show the name change?

I know when I have to do mine (just middle & last name changed), I show my original birth certificate and then my marriage certificate (I think I had to show these to get passports for my kids).

I imagine there will come some other times in life when you have to show your original name?

(05-21-2019, 11:39 AM)saraholson Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:34 AM)dfrecore Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:11 AM)saraholson Wrote: Hey everyone, I have a very specific / odd question for anyone who may know the answer. If not, i will call TESU and try to get ahold of one of the admissions staff... just thought i would try here first.

When i was younger (maybe 10 years ago) i had enrolled in community college, but wasn't able to attend because my job at the time changed their mind and wouldn't work around my schedule for classes. I attended only one day of class and then had to withdraw. 

Fast forward a decade later and I had my legal name changed, first and last, so i have a totally different name - but the same SSN....

My question is, do i have to try to get ahold of these transcripts from that college i withdrew from, in order to graduate from TESU. I am concerned about it because I don't know how i will be able to get the transcripts since all my ID's have long since had my revised names on them. I don't have anything to show I am that person i 'used' to be when I enrolled at the community college... weird situation i know...

thanks in advance

You don't have a birth certificate?  Or any paperwork to show the name change?

I know when I have to do mine (just middle & last name changed), I show my original birth certificate and then my marriage certificate (I think I had to show these to get passports for my kids).

I imagine there will come some other times in life when you have to show your original name?

Normally I just show my letter from the court that authorized my name change. That's what I use for the DPS and all those other places to get my documents changed. But the old community college doesn't accept this and requires a photo ID with the name I used when i was in college.

(05-21-2019, 11:42 AM)davewill Wrote: It depends. If you completely withdrew from the school in a way that leaves no transcript, then you might be OK. If you just withdrew from the courses and still have a student record and transcripts with Ws, then you do. That old school will come up in a search that any school will do before letting you graduate. Some schools will do that search before letting you enroll, but other wait until graduation time.

It usually isn't that hard to order transcripts. Just giving the right name and social security number is usually enough. You might even be able to do it online.

(05-21-2019, 11:54 AM)saraholson Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:42 AM)davewill Wrote: It depends. If you completely withdrew from the school in a way that leaves no transcript, then you might be OK. If you just withdrew from the courses and still have a student record and transcripts with Ws, then you do. That old school will come up in a search that any school will do before letting you graduate. Some schools will do that search before letting you enroll, but other wait until graduation time.

It usually isn't that hard to order transcripts. Just giving the right name and social security number is usually enough. You might even be able to do it online.

The rules they have are kind of a catch-22. I can't order my transcript online without my student ID #. I can't get my student ID# without submitting a scan of a valid photo ID (in my old name). Can't be expired. I actually HAVE an old expired one, lol. They would not take it.

So I am just kind of getting bounced around like a ping pong ball.... gonna keep trying

(05-21-2019, 12:41 PM)dfrecore Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:54 AM)saraholson Wrote:

(05-21-2019, 11:42 AM)davewill Wrote: It depends. If you completely withdrew from the school in a way that leaves no transcript, then you might be OK. If you just withdrew from the courses and still have a student record and transcripts with Ws, then you do. That old school will come up in a search that any school will do before letting you graduate. Some schools will do that search before letting you enroll, but other wait until graduation time.

It usually isn't that hard to order transcripts. Just giving the right name and social security number is usually enough. You might even be able to do it online.

The rules they have are kind of a catch-22. I can't order my transcript online without my student ID #. I can't get my student ID# without submitting a scan of a valid photo ID (in my old name). Can't be expired. I actually HAVE an old expired one, lol. They would not take it.

So I am just kind of getting bounced around like a ping pong ball.... gonna keep trying

Yeah, this has to get escalated, and to a person with a brain.  OMG!