<p>Duke's Application Check system tells me that
it received my Common Application with essay..
But for days it doesn't mention that it has received
secondary school report, transcript, or teacher evals...</p>
<p>How can they receive the Common App and not the
secondary school report, transcript, and teacher evals..???</p>
<p>T.T</p>
<p>Because the Commonapp is usually submitted online whereas the others have to be mailed in. So imagine your school mailing all that in separately in 3-4 envelopes, then multiply that by like a couple thousand and you can guess the workload of the admissions office. </p>
<p>Even if you submitted the commonapp by paper (can you even do that anymore?), it’s not guaranteed that the other stuff will get there at the same time. A delay of even a day could mean that these documents are separated by a huge pile of other stuff in between. </p>
<p>Bottom line is give it time.</p>
<p>But I thought Common App “CONTAINED” secondary school report, transcript, and teacher evals… and therefore I thought that my application was received WITH the secondary school report, transcript, and teacher evals…
Do I have to ‘mail’ the secondary school report, transcript, and teacher evals AGAIN??</p>
<p>Those things are prepared by different entities so I’m not sure what you mean?</p>
<p>A friend of mine sent in the common application to duke. And the Check Status system tell him that they received everything except the SAT scores: transcript, secondary school report, teacher recs…etc. And he ONLY sent the common app; he didnt mail or fax them anything. So I thought if I only submit my common app, Ill be fine with the transcripts, school report, teacher recs…etc. But the Check Status system says they’ve only received the Common App and not the transcript, school report, teacher rec…etc… T.T</p>
<p>Have you considered that the common app is ELECTRONIC and those other components are not? even if they were perhaps the admissions office needs a pair of eyes to manually file your submission, which they haven’t gotten to yet?</p>
<p>If it says not received, it means… not received! give it a break.</p>
<p>It might just be coincidental that your friend’s other stuff got there before or at the same time as the commonapp. But if you did it electronically, the other stuff probably hasn’t gotten there yet because your school is slow or the mailing/filing process is slow. You did remember to give those transcript forms and teacher evals and school report forms to the appropriate people right?</p>
<p>I thought those “transcript forms and teacher evals and school report forms” were ATTACHED to the on-line commonapp?</p>
<p>Does your high school specifically say that you can use electronic submission of those forms? I see on the CommonApp site that there is a system now in place that allows counselors and school officials to transmit transcripts and evals online (Wow! How lucky!). Did you ever ask you school about that? </p>
<p>If not, then you should. And if they say no, then you’ll need to do it the old fashion way: print them out, give them to the right people, wait for them to mail it when they are done.</p>
<p>If yes, then you need to apparently invite the right people electronically to fill them out. Anyway, no matter what, the right invitations/solicitations need to be made so that the counselors/school/teachers are aware that they need do this. Even then, the application and those separate forms look like they are completely divorced from each other in terms of temporal constraints both online and offline. You might have submitted the commonapp, but the invited people could probably do it at any time before or after your submission whether by mail or online. Meaning those parts would not be completed and submitted until they do so. </p>
<p>Bottom line is you need to first check with those people to see if they’ve done it or not before jumping the gun and saying duke never got it. And if you never invited/asked those people, then the time to do so is now (and for those teacher rec, it was actually really polite to ask during the summer or at least a month in advance…)</p>
<p>Edit: also note that mailing that stuff in yourself is usually frowned upon since they usually require official seals, stationery and letterhead from the school, and appropriate signatures from the relevant authorities. Faking those is considered forgery and AFAIK, almost no school will give you that stuff to mail yourself because unless it comes from them directly or in a sealed envelope, others will generally consider it “tampered with” which then destroys the credibility of the school and yourself.</p>
<p>Thanks SBR. That explains it all…
One question about your ‘edit’ though…(apart from all the duke talk)</p>
<p>I received my ‘sealed’ transcript from my school. (it was in a small envelope)
Then I am trying to send it to other colleges by putting that small envelope
inside a large envelope that contains other financial materials and send that large
envelope myself…
Do you think that is ok? :)</p>
<p>Yeah as long as that seal is unbroken I think it’s fine. You could also enclose a letter with that packet of info that lists the stuff that’s enclosed and mention it’s a sealed transcript or something like that.</p>
<p>Thanks. You are so cool…:)</p>
<p>no problem, best of luck</p>