<p>my common app...</p>
<p>there's this checklist</p>
<p>and this "my colleges" thing.</p>
<p>if I apply to HYP, would H be able to see that im also applying to yale and princeton if i applied on commonapp online?</p>
<p>if that is the case, how do i avoid having them know?</p>
<p>Common App knows, but they don't divulge this to individual schools.</p>
<p>send in your application to each college one at a time- don't list all three on the "my colleges" list and then hit the "send" button . Add a college, send the app, uncheck that college and repeat for the next college.</p>
<p>Although I do believe that HYP share their applicant lists with each other.</p>
<p>I have heard that what menloparkmom suggests is the only way to ensure that other colleges do not learn where else you are applying. If you send scores to 9 places on the same day - the receipt is apparently included with the scores. On the receipt is the list of your schools which are not intentionally divulged....but obviously available.</p>
<p>D sent one score a day to school that she thinks cares or sensitive about what other schools a student is applying. For schools that don't care because they are so selective, D lumped them together.</p>
<p>Are you talking about collegeboard? I thought they just sent in your scores to the ONE school that you asked them to but the "receipt" was not sent with the scores????? Am I wrong?</p>
<p>theyre talking about common app</p>
<p>Yeah once you send your common app, and it locks, can you still add other schools/supplements to the my college list?</p>
<p>Why does anyone care about this, one way or the other?</p>
<p>CollegeBoard told me that there's no way colleges can see where else you've sent scores to. So you're saying they are lying?</p>
<p>"Why does anyone care about this, one way or the other?"
Because, in the past [though I'm not sure if it is stilll true] when a student listed more than 1 college on the common app, and hit the apply button- ALL of the colleges could see where else the students was applying. Let's assume that this student has great stats/ grades etc and has applied to HYPS, as well as some safeties. As admissions offices make their decisions, it is possible that they would factor in where else the student was applying, as an indication of the likehood of the student matriculating at their college. If the admissions officers have no idea which other colleges the student has applied to, they have to base their decision on only the application in hand. That is one reason why students don't want to broadcast where they have applied.</p>
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send in your application to each college one at a time- don't list all three on the "my colleges" list and then hit the "send" button . Add a college, send the app, uncheck that college and repeat for the next college.
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<p>Very useful advice.</p>
<p>For collegeboard, I heard they do sell the list and let colleges know which college student list at the top to send their SAT scores. Very sneaky I know, I read it here on CC, and that is why D sent scores multiple times.</p>
<p>99 cents, let us know in April how she fares with the colleges she applied to using the Common App.</p>
<p>^I will. I think only LACs care, other prestigious colleges don't.</p>
<p>99cents, which thread said CB sells lists to the colleges? I can't find it</p>
<p>I would gently suggest not assuming anything here. College all up and down the selectivity scale have to admit more students than eventually enroll (matriculate), because students are still making up their minds about what colleges to attend as the admission decisions come out from December to April. If a student is a STRONG candidate for admission at a particular college, the student is likely to get in, and all the more so if the student has articulated a reason why he or she is a good fit for the college. (The question "Why do you fit this college?" is an IMPLICIT question on every college application, even if it isn't an explicit question.) </p>
<p>In a world in which most applicants apply to more than one college, and all sensible college admission counselors advise applying to multiple colleges at varying degrees of selectivity, why should College X say, "This looks like a strong candidate for admission--oops; he's applying to College Y, so let's not admit him"? College X isn't completely sure how College Y will act on an application, nor is College Y completely sure how College X will act. I contend that the colleges have figured out that they are better off simply admitting the strongest candidates who show up, noting of course whether the student really writes out a rationale for fitting that college or not, and ignoring what other colleges might do. </p>
<p>If any admission officers would like to deepen our understanding of this issue, I'd be happy to hear what they have to say, especially on the factual point of whether colleges even know what other colleges applicants are applying to.</p>