<p>Can I send different personal statements to different colleges using the Common App?</p>
<p>Can I send different 150 word activities descriptions?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and can I pick different majors for different colleges?</p>
<p>I ask because I have an essay that works as a personal statement for a couple places but would probably be a better "why us?" supplement for some other colleges.</p>
<p>And then can I split up my colleges between teachers so that different ones send letters to different colleges?</p>
<p>My counselor emailed the Common App ppl with all these questions last week but they still haven't gotten back to him.</p>
<p>If I can send different stuff, how would this work? Do I like stagger my submissions or something?</p>
<p>Once you submit the Common App to one school, you cannot change anything (except the college-specific materials in the beginning of the application). So, no, as far as I can tell, you can't change your personal statements, 150 word descriptions, etc.</p>
<p>Step1: You must submit the Common Application to at least one institution first. You cannot create an alternate version until this has occurred.</p>
<p>Step 3: Upon login you will be taken to the 'Common Application' page, where you will see information about the application you have already submitted. The ability to create an alternate version of your submitted Common Application is now activated, and you should click on the ‘Replicate’ link to make an alternate version of your submitted application. When this is complete, a second version will be visible on your screen and a special drop down list that will appear in the upper right corner of your application. You can use this drop down to move between application versions.</p>
<p>All data from your original version of your Common Application will be transferred to your alternate version, with the exception of any documents that you uploaded. You may edit any of this information before you submit it to another institution.</p>
<p>You only need to go to the special URL the first time you create an alternative version. Thereafter, additional application versions can be made by going to the ‘Common Application’ section within your original Common Application and using the ‘Replicate’ link. You may make up to 10 versions, including the original version. You only need your original User Name and Password to access all versions.</p>
<p>You will have a separate My Colleges page for each application version. Each institution can only be on the My Colleges list of one application version. You can move an institution from one version to a different version at any time prior to submitting the Common App to that institution.
Seems complicated. >__< But I'm totally planning on doing it.</p>
<p>Hahaha oh wow, well I guess it's worth it if you really want to submit different things to different places. My hat's off to anyone who does this.</p>
<p>It isn't difficult at all, and in many cases it makes sense to do it. In my case last year, one of the universities I was applying to did not offer the major I had specified on the common app - they had a different name for that area of study - so I felt I would have appeared uniformed and uninterested had I applied to a major they did not have. The Common App sub-forum is a great source of information on filling out the Common App.</p>
<p>@Poseur, thanks that is exactly what i was hoping to find!!=)</p>
<p>@tocollege, i posted a nearly identical thread on the Common App subforum but only got 1 reply. it doesn't get as much traffic as this larger Admissions forum.</p>
<p>but yeah, it does make a lot of sense to do it. for example, if i use a really major-specific personal statement on how i'm so determined to become successful in a particular profession for a school like cornell, it probably wouldn't be as appreciated at a school like uchicago which really values coming in with an open mind freshman year and being willing to try new things.</p>
<p>ok well i am SO happy i just came across this thread cuz i just about had a crisis....</p>
<p>i was planning on submitting different personal statements for different schools also and thought that i could change each personal satement...but then when i just tried to edit the personal statement i realized it wouldn't let me edit it. so i of course started to freak out but then came across this thread...</p>
<p>i followed the directions that were posted above and everything seems to be worked out...i have 2 different versions of the common app and all i had to do was re-add the schools.....</p>
<p>my one question is though....is this legitimate? this is allowed right? and has anyone actually done this? it wont' affect my other applications right?</p>
<p>Yeah I'm also wondering if this is definitely legit.</p>
<p>I'm applying EA to Northeastern, and still haven't written my essay yet (yikes, I know!).
So I'll be writing that today or tomorrow. But I'm thinking I'll probably want to write a better one for all my reach schools that I'm applying to RD.</p>
<p>NB: If you want to replicate Common Application, do that BEFORE you submit anything off it, even a supplement. Because once you do that, you can no longer delete the college and re-add it... That's what happened to me - I submitted the supplements for Cornell and Harvard before I found out how to replicate the application and as a result, the same application went to Wash U (that's where I submitted it initially), Cornell and Harvard.
I freaked out and emailed Cornell and they let me send in a hard copy of CommonApp, and I'm still waiting for reply from Harvard.</p>
<p>BeyondReality:
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Step1: You must submit the Common Application to at least one institution first. You cannot create an alternate version until this has occurred.
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<p>So how would we replicate it BEFORE submitting anything?</p>
<p>Could you edit anything besides the essay? My EC lists and other stuff will vary slightly because some schools I'm applying to allow additional attachments (resumes) and some don't. Would the CommonApp let me tweak the entirety of my application slightly?</p>
<p>As I read the instructions, all of the information on the second version of the Application can be edited.</p>
<p>It sounds like BeyondReality's problem is that he first submitted the application to WashU, and then submitted supplements to Harvard and Cornell BEFORE he replicated the application itself. Probably because those supplements had already been submitted, the software did not allow him to move those schools to a new version of the application.</p>
<p>Finally, this is perfectly legit, as long as the information on both versions is truthful.</p>
<p>Creating a replicate copy of your application is simple. I recommend doing it if you want to tweak your information for each college. If you follow the directions in the early post it will take you less than one minute.</p>
<p>"You can move an institution from one version to a different version at any time prior to submitting the Common App to that institution."</p>
<p>Is there a way to move a college from one to another, or do I have to delete it from the original and add it the copy? I really shouldn't have filled out all those supplements on the original...</p>
<p>NB: In the original directions on the first page of this thread, you need to COPY AND PASTE the link NOT CLICK ON IT in order to be redirected correctly.</p>