Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso: Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

Sample translation: a Congolese secondary school transcript

This is what an order looks like when it is delivered, with a fictitious student. The PDF starts with the signed certification page, and the translation follows the original line for line: every abbreviation is explained, stamps, seals and signatures are noted in brackets, and the grid stays the same, so an admissions officer or a credential evaluator can match it without guessing.

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What to notice

• Two school years in the same grid as the original: every subject, grading period, exam and total, so each grade can be read against its maximum.
• The French rating abbreviations are translated (TB becomes VG, Very good), and every abbreviation is explained in a translator's note at the foot of the same page, including one the original never defines.
• Dates are written the US way (the original's 02/07/2015 is February 7, 2015).
• The photo, seals and signatures are noted in brackets where they appear.

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Texas Tech Health El Paso requirements in detail

One Registrar rule for medicine, nursing, dentistry and biomedical sciences

Texas Tech Health El Paso puts its rule on the Registrar's policies page, so it applies across its schools: anyone who completed undergraduate or graduate coursework at a college or university outside the US must obtain a credential evaluation that includes US degree equivalencies and a course-by-course analysis (Registrar policies).

The evaluation can reach the university through a third-party application service or be sent to the Registrar directly.

The page names four agencies, IEE (which has a Texas Tech Health El Paso evaluation application), SpanTran: The Evaluation Company, ECE and SDR Educational Consultants, and says the list is not exhaustive: evaluations from NACES members or endorsed AICE members are generally accepted.

For applicants with a Mexican título or other university records in Spanish, the evaluation is built on an English translation.

What each evaluation agency asks for the translation

ECE accepts complete, literal, word-for-word translations, including your own, or sells an $85 waiver under which it translates internally for the report.

IEE accepts translations by certified translators (or a university or embassy in your country), not by the applicant or a notary. SDR accepts its own translators or another certified translator.

TEC (SpanTran) accepts outside translations only from translators certified by ATA; eVerbary can assign one on request through a free quote that mentions TEC and Texas Tech Health El Paso.

If you use another NACES member, such as WES, check its rule; WES wants a professional translator.

Documents applicants usually translate

• University transcripts (título, kárdex or certificado de estudios)
• Degree certificates
• Course descriptions, if the agency asks for them

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 Texas Tech Health El Paso

• Send the translation with your documents to the agency; the agency sends the evaluation to your application service or to the Registrar at 130 Rick Francis St., MSC 21014, El Paso, TX 79905 (Registrar policies and procedures).

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 Texas Tech Health El Paso, 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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