Queensborough Community College (CUNY): Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

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QCC requirements in detail

QCC reads your translated records first

Queensborough's International Admissions team does an initial review of your documents against CUNY's guidelines, which takes 10-15 business days (International students).

For that review every document must be official, stamped and dated by the issuing school or exam board, and any document not in English must be translated first and submitted together with the official original, prepared with CUNY's document translation guide.

If QCC cannot evaluate a freshman's documents, it asks, case by case, for a course-by-course evaluation from one of its listed agencies, which speeds up the decision.

Without one, documents go to CUNY's University Application Processing Center, where a full review can take 3-5 months (International students). CUNY's own rules are on the CUNY page.

Transfers: a course-by-course evaluation from the list

Transfer applicants must submit a course-by-course evaluation of their university transcripts, from Academic Evaluation Services, ECE, Educational Perspectives, Educational Records Evaluation Service, Foreign Academic Credential Service, Global Credential Evaluators, IACEI, International Consultants of Delaware, IERF, IEE, The Evaluation Company, Transcript Research or WES; processing takes 7-14 business days, and the agency sends the official evaluation to QCC (International students).

Documents that do not appear to meet CUNY's guidelines are forwarded to the central office, which wants both the original and the translation sent to it directly.

The agency sets its own translation rule.

WES, for example, accepts a translation by a professional translation service but not one by the applicant (WES), while some listed agencies, such as Global Credential Evaluators and IACEI, want an ATA-certified translator, which eVerbary can assign through a free quote.

Documents applicants usually translate

• Official high school transcript and diploma
• National or government exam certificates
• University transcripts, for the course-by-course evaluation
• Degree certificates

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 QCC

• Send the official documents with their translations to QCC by mail or to internationaladmissions@qcc.cuny.edu, as the international admissions page explains (International students). We can email the translation directly to the admissions office on request.

• For a course-by-course evaluation, the translation goes to the agency with your transcripts; the agency emails its report to QCC.

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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