San Diego Community College District (San Diego City, Mesa and Miramar colleges): Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

Worth knowing about San Diego City, Mesa and Miramar

San Diego City, Mesa and Miramar requirements in detail

Three colleges, three ways of reading foreign records

The colleges share a district but not an international office.

Mesa College wants transcripts of all secondary and college education filed with an English translation before it considers the application, and its checklist calls for high school records officially translated to English; an evaluation is listed only for foreign college or university transcripts.

Mesa wants everything in one PDF and tells you not to mail transcripts separately. See also high school diploma translation.

Miramar College asks for both steps: original transcripts from every high school, college, English language school and other program, translated and then evaluated by a US-based NACES member, with a GPA on the report.

It accepts only original documents, not copies, emails or faxes, and it does not admit applicants who already hold an associate degree or 60 semester units.

City College reads foreign records only through a NACES evaluation that shows the equivalent of a US high school diploma with a 2.0 GPA, delivered with the official transcripts in a sealed envelope.

What the evaluation agency asks for the translation

For City and Miramar, the translation goes to the NACES agency with your records.

WES wants an exact, word-for-word translation by a professional translator, such as a translation agency, and does not accept translations by applicants.

ECE asks for complete, word-for-word translations and lets applicants prepare their own; it also sells an $85 Translation Waiver, under which it translates internally for the report and delivers no translation.

IERF asks for typed, line-by-line translations in the same format as the original.

Because both colleges want the GPA on the report, order an evaluation type that includes it, and translate the grading scale printed on your records so the agency can calculate it.

Credit for college work abroad

Transcript evaluations are done by the district, not the campuses.

Foreign coursework can count toward a degree or certificate after a comprehensive evaluation, covering lower and upper division courses, from a NACES-approved service; you submit it to the campus Records Office with the Request for Foreign Transcript Credits form.

Even transcripts already in English need the outside evaluation, foreign transcripts are not required unless you want them evaluated, and evaluations take up to 90 business days (Miramar College: transcript evaluations).

Documents applicants usually translate

• High school transcripts and the diploma or proof of graduation
• College or university transcripts and degree certificates
• English language school transcripts (Miramar asks for them)
• Bank certification and sponsor documents
• Grading scale printed on the records, for the GPA

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 San Diego City, Mesa and Miramar

• Mesa: put the certified translation next to the transcript in the single PDF you email to SDMesaIS@sdccd.edu (Mesa College: Spring 2027 application checklist (PDF)).

  Miramar: the translation goes to the NACES agency, and the application packet with original documents is mailed to the International Student Program (Miramar College: international student application guide 2026 (PDF)).

• City: the agency receives the translation; you mail the official and evaluated transcripts in a sealed envelope to International Student Admissions, A-241 (San Diego City College: international admission requirements).

  For credit, the comprehensive evaluation goes to the Records Office (Miramar College: transcript evaluations).

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.

Frequently asked questions