<p>Do colleges know if you are submitting an alternate version to them? Or does it look the same? Thanks.</p>
<p>what do you mean by that? Once you submit the common app, it gets locked and you can't change it anymore.</p>
<p>actually, you can change it. go to the instructions and read about it. i'm just wondering if the colleges know that it is an alternate version that you are sending them.</p>
<p>Wow..that's true haha....</p>
<p>But no, colleges won't know if it's an alternate version. They won't spend the time to see if you sent one. It's too much of a hassle and it doesn't matter that much to them anyways.</p>