College of Charleston: Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

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College of Charleston requirements in detail

First-year: translated transcripts, read by the college

The College of Charleston reads foreign high school records itself.

Your school sends complete transcripts in the original language with its official stamp or seal, and you add certified, word-for-word English translations of all transcript pages (How to apply: international students).

No credential evaluation is listed for first-year applicants, so translate every page, including grading legends and the high school diploma if it is part of the transcript.

Transfer: a course-by-course evaluation with 12 or more credits

If you have 12 or more college credits from outside the US, you apply as a transfer and must submit a course-by-course evaluation of each transcript from an approved agency; requesting it is your responsibility, and without it no transfer credit is granted (How to apply: international students).

The preferred agencies have their own translation rules: The Evaluation Company asks for an outside translator certified by the American Translators Association, and IEE for a certified translator. eVerbary can assign an ATA-certified translator on request (see below).

Documents applicants usually translate

• Complete high school transcripts, every page
• High school diploma or leaving certificate
• College or university transcripts, for transfer applicants
• Undergraduate transcripts, for graduate applicants

What an eVerbary translation includes

• A complete English translation of every page, stamps, seals and handwritten notes included, laid out like the original so each line can be matched.
• Grades exactly as recorded, with the grading scale the document prints. We never convert marks to a US GPA.
• A signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead, with our contact details, delivered as a PDF you can upload.
• $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, certification included; 24 hours for one to three pages as standard. Regular clients who need it can get delivery in as little as 30 minutes, on request.

Uploading the translation to College of Charleston

• Apply with the College of Charleston application or the Common App; the school sends transcripts directly, and you submit the certified translations with your application (How to apply: international students). On request we can email the translation directly to the admissions office.

• Transfer applicants also send the translations to the evaluation agency, which prepares the course-by-course report for the college (How to apply: international students).

If you need a translator certified by ATA

Some offices accept only a translator who is personally certified by the American Translators Association (ATA). eVerbary assigns one on request, for the languages ATA certifies into English:

To order it, ask for a free quote and write in the notes that the translation is for College of Charleston, which program it is for, and that you need a translator individually certified by ATA, plus anything else the office asks for (notarization, delivery by email to the office).

We confirm the price and the translator before you pay. ATA does not certify other languages into English, so no translator anywhere holds ATA certification for them.

For those languages we provide a notarized certified translation instead, at $44.95 per page plus notarization ($34.90 per order); ask the office to confirm it accepts that, and write its answer in the quote notes.

How to order

1. Scan or photograph every page of the document, front and back, including any stamps on the reverse.
2. Upload it, choose the language and "certified", and see the price before paying.
3. Receive the PDF, usually within 24 hours for one to three pages, and upload it with the copy of the original wherever the institution asks for it.

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