Spanish College Application Translation
Spanish college application translation for a US admissions office or, in the other direction, for a university in Spain, Mexico or Colombia. We translate the papers around the transcript: cartas de recomendación, a carta de motivos, a constancia de estudios, the EvAU or Saber 11 results and the school's counselor report. Certified and signed, from 24 hours.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Spanish college application records
The supporting papers that come in Spanish
The transcript and the diploma have their own pages on this site. A complete application also carries letters, certificates and exam scores, and those are usually the pages a US admissions office cannot read.
Cartas de recomendación and the carta de motivos
A Spanish-language recommendation comes from a profesor or an orientador on school letterhead, often with a seal and a signature across it, and it tends to describe conduct and attendance alongside grades. The Common App and most universities take it in English with a certified translation. The carta de motivos or carta de exposición de motivos that Latin American schools assign is the applicant's own essay; we translate it word for word and do not polish it, since the admissions reader wants the student's voice.
Constancias and exam result certificates
A constancia de estudios or constancia de inscripción proves the applicant is enrolled in the final year and expects to finish; a certificado de bachillerato or acta de terminación proves they did. Spain's EvAU, Colombia's ICFES Saber 11, Chile's PAES and Mexico's EXANI results each come as a printout with a verification code. The translation keeps the code, the scale and every score as printed so the university can check the result online.
Applying from the US to a university abroad
The reverse direction is just as common. A US high school graduate applying in Spain goes through UNEDasiss, which accredits the US record and calculates a nota de admisión, and asks for the diploma and transcript in Spanish. A Mexican university wants a revalidación de estudios from the SEP, which needs the apostilled US records translated. Some of these offices accept only a traductor jurado or a perito traductor from their own list, so ask the receiving office before you order, then we translate into Spanish and can notarize.
Who is asking for your Spanish college application translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Universities and admissions offices
Admissions offices accept a certified translation they can read next to the original. A PDF is usually enough; ask for a hard copy if they want one.
Credential evaluators
WES, ECE and similar services ask for a word-for-word certified translation of each page, sent alongside the official transcript.
ECFMG and medical boards
Applicants to US medical programs send transcripts and diplomas through ECFMG, which asks for an English translation of every document that is not in English.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Spanish college application.
Send the whole packet in one order
Transcripts, the diploma, recommendation letters and the grading scale travel together. One order keeps the names, dates and course titles consistent across every page.
Separate the records from your essays
Admissions offices want official records translated word for word. Essays and statements are usually written in English by the applicant, so upload only what the school will read as evidence.
Count on more than one page per sheet
A transcript or a course description holds a lot of text. The quote counts words, not sheets, so a dense sheet may price as two or three pages.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Spanish college application translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the college application is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Spanish College Application FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Do I need to translate every recommendation letter, or only the official records?
- Every document in Spanish that you upload. Admissions offices treat a letter they cannot read as missing, and a counselor report in Spanish is no use to a reader in English. A one-page letter is $25. If a teacher is able to write the letter in English, that is fine too, and then only the Spanish ones need a translation.
- Will you convert my grades or my EvAU score for the application?
- No. A Spanish nota de admisión of 9.2 is out of 14, not 10, and a Saber 11 global score is out of 500, so the translation states the scale next to each result and leaves the number alone. Turning either into a GPA or an SAT equivalent is up to the admissions office.
- Can you translate a US acceptance letter into Spanish for a scholarship body or a school abroad?
- Yes. A student loan or scholarship body such as Colombia's ICETEX may want the US admission letter in Spanish before it funds a study-abroad place, and an employer granting study leave may ask for it too. The letter is usually one page. Tell us who receives it so the translator uses that office's terms.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Spanish documents we translate
College application translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's college application records.
