Vietnamese College Application Translation
Vietnamese college application translation to English of everything a US admissions office and the F-1 process read from Vietnam: the học bạ, the diploma or temporary certificate, giấy khen and competition awards, teacher letters written in Vietnamese and the bank papers behind the I-20. One order keeps the student's name and the school's name spelled the same on every page.
- 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 Vietnamese college application records
What a Vietnamese applicant's packet holds beyond the transcript
Admissions offices know the học bạ. The rest of the packet is where the Vietnam-specific paper is, and where a word-for-word translation does the most work.
Giấy khen and học sinh giỏi awards
Vietnamese students arrive with a stack of giấy khen, certificates of merit signed by the principal, a Phòng or Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo, or the Ủy ban nhân dân. The ones that carry weight are from the học sinh giỏi competitions, held at school, district, provincial and national level, with prizes of giải Nhất, Nhì, Ba and Khuyến khích. A giải Ba cấp tỉnh is a third prize in a provincial competition, not third place in a class, and the translation names both the level and the prize so the reader does not shrink it.
Letters from the giáo viên chủ nhiệm
Many recommendation letters come from the giáo viên chủ nhiệm, the homeroom teacher who follows a class for a whole year and writes the comments in the học bạ. The role has no US equivalent, so we name it and explain it in a translator's note rather than calling the writer a counselor. Letters are often on school letterhead with the principal's red seal and a day-month-year date, and the translation keeps the teacher's phrasing instead of polishing it into an American letter.
The money behind the I-20
The I-20 and the F-1 interview at the consulate in Hồ Chí Minh City or the embassy in Hà Nội rest on proof of funds, and in Vietnam that means a sổ tiết kiệm, a savings passbook from a bank such as Vietcombank or BIDV, a giấy xác nhận số dư, the bank's balance confirmation, a parent's income letter from an employer, and sometimes the sổ đỏ, the land use certificate, as an asset. We translate the term, the interest rate and the amounts as printed; the school's financial officer does the dollar conversion.
Who is asking for your Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese 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.
Vietnamese College Application FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Do I need to translate my IELTS or TOEFL score report?
- No. Those reports are in English and the test provider sends them to the school directly. The same goes for SAT or ACT scores. What needs translating is anything issued in Vietnamese: the học bạ, the diploma or temporary certificate, awards, letters from teachers who wrote in Vietnamese, and the financial documents. Leave the English-language items out of the order.
- The college wants the transcript sent by the school. How does the translation fit?
- The school sends or seals the Vietnamese original, and you supply the certified translation of the same copy. Ask the school for a sealed bản sao of the học bạ, scan it, and order the translation from that scan so the two documents match line for line. We deliver a signed PDF you upload or hand to the school to include, and mailed hard copies are available as an add-on.
- Should I include my national graduation exam results?
- If you have them, yes. The giấy chứng nhận kết quả thi from the kỳ thi tốt nghiệp trung học phổ thông lists your mark out of 10 in each subject you sat, and it is the one score in the packet that every Vietnamese student took under the same national paper. Some admissions offices read it beside the học bạ to judge the school's grading. It is a single page, $25.
- 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 Vietnamese documents we translate
College application translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's college application records.
