<p>Hey my fellow CCs, it will be very appreciated if you can help me with two questions!!</p>
<p>How does the ED deadline mean?
By 11/1, what do you need to summit? Application forms, supplements, financial aids and applications are for sure, but how about high school transcripts and teacher recommendation letters?</p>
<p>For the high school transcripts, I got a "transcript request" form in which I filled out UPenn, but how about the address? Where should I put as the recipient? </p>
<p>I’m not too sure how to answer your question about the transcript request form because I’m an international student, but for the deadlines, I think that you must send in the ENTIRE application by the date, inclusive of the teacher recommendations and transcripts.</p>
<p>I went to a Penn info session last night.
Yes, it’s the entire application!
(Transcripts, teacher recs, counselor rec, common app, supplement, etc.)
Hope that helps.</p>
<p>The transcript is submitted online. You have to go to the “School Forms” page and invite your school counselor. Your school counselor will be the person who uploads your transcripts onto the Common App (Teachers and school counselors will receive a username and password to “their” account for them to submit the recommendations, transcripts, etc. separately from your part of the application.)</p>
<p>@yshuwah93: That’s not a guarentee. At my school, only teachers can submit online. My school has not overhauled their technology yet and are still using paper recs for the counselor/transcript.</p>
<p>Why only teachers? You don’t need much technology to do the online part for counselors. Even those old, near obsolete computers will be adequate. In fact, if your teachers can do their part online, I simply do not get it why the counselor cannot do the same. Additionally, doing it online will save them much time, effort and resources.</p>
<p>Even if all the transcripts/recommendations are in paper form and they do not have any soft copy version, you can always scan it. Just make sure that the document size is below 500kb. If you are scanning them, scan the transcripts for each school year separately, because even though all file sizes are restricted to under 500kb, you can submit multiple files for the transcripts.</p>
<p>@yshuwah93: Our school cannot send transcripts online yet. And, according to Common App, counselor rec’s & transcripts must be together. So, for our school, it must be all on paper. Teacher’s have no transcript to send, just a rec. So, they can do theirs online.</p>
<p>Hmm…but that will be a problem. If I remember correctly, if you use the online application, your entire application has to be done online, including the counselor recommendation and transcripts. Your problem should be solved if you entirely use the paper application. However, you still can ask them to scan the transcripts.</p>
<p>If things haven’t changed my transcript and recommendations were sent by mail and my application was done online. You can opt for your recommendations not to be done online if I remember correctly. Your transcript needs to be official, so that could be sent by mail sealed with the school seal (they don’t want it to be tampered with).</p>
<p>@All: Yeah, I contacted Penn, Common App, and everybody else. They just want your CA & Supplement online (use the same method). Anything from others (teacher recs, counselor recs, transcripts, etc). are all their decision as to what method they wish to use (paper/online). You won’t be penalized for someone else’s decision.</p>