Applications and Transcripts

Learn More About Transcripts


You can request that your official transcript be sent electronically from your high school to the college you wish to attend.
How does requesting transcripts work?
  1. In the Request Transcript Account Information page, select your high school.
  2. Select the post-secondary institution. If your post-secondary institution is not shown in the list, select the destination "Not on list". A "Not on list" request takes you through a series of screens to select a destination from an extensive list of nationwide post-secondary institutions.
  3. Click "Continue".
  4. What'sNextIllinois will determine if your high school accepts online transcript requests.
  5. Your high school electronically uploads and approves releasing your transcript to the destination you requested.
  6. Colleges in the Transcript Exchange will download your transcript directly from the Transcript Exchange. Colleges outside the Transcript Exchange are either notified via e-mail to download your transcript from a website or they receive your transcript as a hardcopy through US mail.
  7. After submitting a transcript request, you can track the request's status on the History page. You can see the colleges to which you've requested release of your transcript, when you submitted your request, and the status of each request.

Please note that there may be a charge to send your transcript to a college outside the state of Illinois or a school that is not participating in the Transcript Exchange.