Legal Question in Criminal Law in New York

Is this a crime punishable by fine and/or prision sentence?

Some background info, I am applying to grad school, and these grad schools want to see official transcripts from the schools I've previously attended sent to me as an intermediary, untouched, and then have me send them to the respective grad schools. For reasons that are too long to explain, I am duplicating an envelope from the Registrar's office at a particular college I attended, complete with their Return address and a US Postal Stamp label (one of those that are printed onto the envelope by big institutions instead of using a paper stamp) to indicate that this envelope has indeed been mailed to myself. I then place a real official transcript in this envelope I have made, and seal the back flap with a duplicate of the college seal. I proceed to send this envelope including transcript as part of a larger application package that I am paying actual postage for (so that the fake US mailing label I have made is technically not being used). The question that I am posing is the following... does passing off this duplicated envelope with transcript as being originally issued from the college to the schools I'm applying to considered criminal?

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