Apply to colleges separately with one Common App?

Applying to College
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Hello

My son is working on his common app for a early action deadline of October 15 at a particular non-Ivy League school. This “version” of his essay and Common App are at the 95% solution point and we are inclined to hit submit. Consider it “A” quality.

However he has some aspirations for a few Ivy Leagues and we feel we need to “tweak” and polish his essay and Common App a little bit more, which will take us beyond Oct 15, but we will be ready by Nov 1 early action/decision dates. We want the Ivy League app to be “AAA+” quality.

So my question is this, can you apply to one school, then apply to more schools later, without re-sending the app to the first school ?

Thank you

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Yes.

To be technical, once the first school is sent, it cannot be resent to that school. But yes, you can make changes to the common app that will only impact future submissions.

Also, closing thread as IP created an alias account to ask the question, which violates ToS

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