Database for transcripts

[cookderosa]

Just in case anybody reading this thread wonders if there is a central database listing all of the schools you ever attended, there isn't. The rules are that you are obligated to tell a college or university about all of the other schools you attended. If you went to school A and transferred to school B and later applied to school C but only admitted to attending school B, school C would know about school A because it would be mentioned on school B's transcript. If you went to school D and later attended school E without mentioning school D at all and later applied to school F and never mentioned school D, school F would never know you went to school D.

I realize this may not have anything to do with what the original poster wanted to know, but people do wonder from time to time. I know of cases where people have "forgotten" to list a school they flunked out of. That horrifies many people because if the new school found out, they could throw the student out for lying on an application. The people who do such things conclude that the risk of maybe not being allowed to complete the degree is insignificant when compared to the certainty of not being admitted to the new school.

Since you brought this up, you "can" find centralized data on students who received financial aid.