Can I edit or change my commonapp essay after submitting it for early action?

[yerin2021]

If I want to make changes on my common app essay after submitting
It to my early action school, can I? I want to chamge the essay for the schools I am applying regular decision to. I might come up with better ideas between Nov 1 and Jan 1

[ClaremontMom]

Short answer, yes. Here is the long answer.

https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/96/Can-I-make-a-change-to-a-submitted-application

Can I make a change to a submitted application?

Once an application or writing supplement has been submitted to any institution, you cannot make any changes to it (just as if you had dropped it in the mail), and we are not permitted to make changes on your behalf. In general, the Common Application is designed to be completed one time and submitted to all of the colleges at once, or over a period of time. If you need to change information on a submitted application, you must contact the college’s admission office directly to ask how they would like you to proceed.

**That said, you can make changes, and submit it to other institutions.

[CMH1085]

Can you explain how that is done? I’m being told that they may have changed that functionality. Specifically, we need to change the curriculum section of the common app for other schools that we have not finalized yet (i.e. the “other” schools in your post).

Thanks

[ilovebillyjoel]

Wow, it makes sense to change a common app essay. DS is applying early action to a state school, but probably won’t go. So he isn’t sweating the essay–thought he had time.