<p>The title seems a little harsh, but is it possible for one of your enemies at school to send random stuff to your colleges if they somehow found out your commonapp ID? How would you know if they send stuff that could jeopardize your admission? Or even send a withdraw statement?</p>
<p>It would be possible if they “somehow found out your commonapp ID” but that sounds very unlikely if you have a secure password…</p>
<p>but what if they found out from one of the teachers writing your rec because he left it out for all to see during class</p>
<p>What if your mom knew your CommonApp Id and tanked your app because she didn’t want you to go away?</p>
<p>I heard that the college will ask applicants to be sure that they are actually withdrawing, but I think an email to admissions would clear up any problems.</p>
<p>Why such a weird question? are you planning something?</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone would go that far, unless they truly hated you.</p>
<p>I fail to understand why your teacher would also have your password. Last I checked, having a username doesn’t get you anywhere when it comes to logging in. Unless your password is incredibly stupid, in which case you should change it anyway, I don’t see any reason for concern, especially because someone would have to stoop pretty low to do this.</p>
<p>Doesn’t the common app allow you to update your profile information, including passwords? Simple sounding remedy I would think…</p>
<p>not password, I just meant my ID number, because teachers have it on their recs, envelopes, and sadly notepads to remember which number is which student…</p>
<p>Just having your ID number does not give anyone access to your data. You think your “enemies” are going to try to fake a letter from the school?</p>
<p>ehh hold on PM</p>
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A distinct possibility</p>
<p>If you have an applicant’s Common App Id number, you could easily write some horrible letter to the Adcom (as in, withdrawing “your” application) and fax it to the Adcom and sign with the other person’s name. You could use the fax machine in some public Kinkos. Your victim would never know. One wonders how the Adcoms police this. One would think that they would send some email to the victim confirming the withdrawal. If such is likely, the right strategy would then be merely to insult the Adcom or the school, thus ensuring effective rejection. I doubt that the Acdom would take the time to email the applicant/victim and ask, “did you really think that Yale is useless and that you regret applying there but your parents made you and that Yale should just pound sand?” The thing is, such things may have happened here and no one can confirm one way or the other.</p>
<p>let us just pray no one does that. since in the end, what goes around comes back around. or they get caught. thank you everyone for the input.</p>
<p>“One wonders how the Adcoms police this.”</p>
<p>They do occasionally get hate mail or other negative contacts about applicants. They never take something like that at face value. Most of the time the unreliability is obvious – misspellings, etc. If it looks credible, and appears to be from an adult who knows you, they may investigate and contact the supposed author. I have heard of cases where a high school covered up a student’s discipline record, and a whistleblower teacher contacted colleges to let them know. But some random kid who hates you is not going to succeed in getting you rejected.</p>