Instructions For Ordering Transcripts From Parchment

 

If you have questions, please contact your student’s counselor.

  1. Go to www.parchment.com.
  2. Indicate that account is being created under the student’s name.
  3. Provide student’s e-mail address.
  4. Create password.
  5. On page “Register for your Parchment Account,” student puts in name, DOB, grade level, etc. Student has option of creating a “user name” if student wants to participate in optional forum with other students (counselors don’t regard this as useful).
  6. Student has option of signing up for College Discovery & Parchment Newsletter (counselors don’t regard this as useful).
  7. Students have to click on box agreeing to Parchment terms of use & if under 18 click on box saying that they have parent permission to create an account.  On the “Your Enrollment Information” page, student is required to waive their FERPA rights.
  8. At some point in this application process, Parchment will notify the student on screen that he/she has been sent an e-mail containing a LINK to activate their Parchment account.  This is the way that Parchment verifies the student’s identity.
  9. Student goes to their e-mail account and clicks on the LINK to continue.
  10. Student clicks on My Transcript.
  11. Student clicks on Get Started.
  12. Student enters name of high school.
  13. Student lists Archbishop Murphy High School and requests a free, unofficial transcript to be sent to his/her Parchment account; under “enrollment information,” DO NOT enter a student school ID or Social Security number.
  14. Student completes the “transcript authorization form” by either entering his/her Parchment PIN, (provided to student by his/her counselor) or if over 18, by signing form using the mouse .
  15. On the My Transcript page, student must click on Deliver to select destinations for transcript: Academic Destinations (colleges & universities); NCAA; Common Application; Self; or Other Destinations (ex., scholarships).  Student must also indicate whether current transcript is to be sent or transcript from next grading period.
  16. PLEASE NOTE:  Student sending college applications by means of THE COMMON APPLICATION must click on the “Common Application” tab and order ONE transcript to be sent to the Common Application.  The transcript will then be uploaded onto the student’s counselor’s recommendation form which the counselor will then send to all of the Common App colleges the student is applying to.  Student DOES NOT need to send individual transcripts to the Common App colleges.
  17. Using the ACADEMIC DESTINATION tab, students order transcripts to non-Common App colleges.  PLEASE NOTE: If the college uses a “self-reported” transcript as part of the student application (i.e., the student lists classes he/she has taken in high school and grades earned), then the college DOES NOT require an official transcript as part of the application process (ex. University of Washington).
  18. Student will see charges for transcript and will pay by credit card.
  19. On the Managing My Transcript page, student will be able to see when transcript has been sent and whether it was sent electronically or by mail.