Can I have two accounts on common application?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>I screwed up in one AS Subject and two O levels. Do I have to send them in or would not doing so be okay? What if after sending ALL my subjects after I got accepted by a university, they see this bad grade and change their mind?</p>

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<p>My name is Osama and I absolutely DESPISE the name, not only because of the racism and Islamophobia aspect but also because I simply hate it. My religious beliefs aren’t even Moslem. When I move to the states, I wanna be called Sam (which is what my name would be if you cut the initial and the last letter). Would it be okay if I put that as my preferred name on the common app? Would it make me look like a self hating pric*? Can I do it without my parents finding out?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, not OK. It’s understandable that you might be uneasy about your name but this is one situation where you need to use your full name:</p>

<p>“Don’t use a nickname or any alternative version of your name. Use your formal, legal name on every college application document.”
[The</a> Common Application: Breaking It Down (Part 1) - StudentAdvisor](<a href=“http://www.studentadvisor.com/pages/the-common-application-breaking-it-down]The”>http://www.studentadvisor.com/pages/the-common-application-breaking-it-down)</p>

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<p>Apparently, you can apply to no more than 20 universities next year and I want to apply for 27. Moreover, I want to write an essay that is extremely liberal and not all the universities I’m applying to are.
Is it legal?</p>

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<p>You can not have more than one account if you are applying to colleges as opposed to just having a play account. You would be breaking commonapp rules.</p>

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<p>Look through your list and those college that you can apply to using their own application you can do that way instead of the common app. However, that means to those schools you need to have all the paperwork sent to them, they cannot access the common app.</p>

<p>27 seems like a lot. You should really just try and cut your list down.</p>

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<p>I think O-Levels, TOEFL, SAT and A-Levels are enough. A-Levels are occasionally worth some credit, and some unis accept them as APs. You should send all, though, because if you don’t, they can accuse you of withholding information.</p>

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<p>always do more!</p>

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<p>You <em>can</em> create different application versions from within your CommonApp account, so that different essays can be sent to different schools. You don’t need (and can’t have) a separate account for this. My D made 3 versions - she had 2 different CommonApp essays & combined them differently depending on the schools’ supplemental essay topics to make the best fit. I can’t remember the steps (she Googled it) but you do need to create (and submit) at least one application first, then the option to create another version opens up.</p>