<p>I'm somewhat lost in the college application process and I have a lot of questions. I know most schools accept the common app which comes out on August 1st, but I have a few other questions (I'm applying to University of Miami, University of Florida, and FIU). </p>
<p>Do colleges have separate applications aside from the common app?</p>
<p>Do colleges have other essay questions or only the common application essays?</p>
<p>How exactly do you submit an essay/letter of recommendation/transcript to a college, and do you have to submit a resume as well? </p>
<p>For sending SAT scores, the first four colleges you send too are free? So if I were to send my scores to the three schools above, I wouldn't be charged by Collegeboard? </p>
<p>And how do I send AP scores, cause I have 6 of them that I'd like to send but I didn't put the code in for these schools while I was taking the AP exam. Do I have to pay to send these?</p>
<p>And do you have to buy the common app or is it free? Cause I know there's a charge for applying to schools. Thanks for helping guys!</p>
<p>Do colleges have separate applications aside from the common app? Usually not. Sometimes they have supplements which you must submit.</p>
<p>Do colleges have other essay questions or only the common application essays? Same answer as above. Sometimes.</p>
<p>How exactly do you submit an essay/letter of recommendation/transcript to a college, and do you have to submit a resume as well? Often you submit these online. Rec letters can be uploaded or mailed. Transcripts and other docs come from your school – not you. Resumes are not wanted.</p>
<p>For sending SAT scores, the first four colleges you send too are free? So if I were to send my scores to the three schools above, I wouldn’t be charged by Collegeboard?</p>
<p>Correct</p>
<p>And how do I send AP scores, cause I have 6 of them that I’d like to send but I didn’t put the code in for these schools while I was taking the AP exam. Do I have to pay to send these? Correct</p>
<p>And do you have to buy the common app or is it free? Cause I know there’s a charge for applying to schools. Thanks for helping guys!</p>
<p>time for you to peruse the Common App site, no?</p>
<p>So why do people always talk about resumes if they aren’t submitted to colleges? And also, I founded a club this year but it was very small and difficult to get people to join, so we didn’t do many activities aside from meetings. I wanted to put this for my ECs but I wasn’t sure if I should. The club was approved by a school administrator though and I had a sponsor as well.</p>
<p>You dont submit a formal resume, but all of the information on it fits somewhere into the CommonApp. Also, if you go on an interview, you should give the interviewer a copy of your resume so he/she can know something about you.</p>
<p>Yeah I just saw the app and it resembles a resume. If I’m applying to multiple schools that accept the common app, should I keep the same essay for all schools or write different ones? Thanks so much for helping, it’s all making sense now lol.</p>
<p>I think you submit the same Common App to every school you apply to, but most schools have a supplement which asks for either another essay or “Why Here?”. The higher the caliber of the school, the more essay-like the question tends to become.</p>
<p>You can submit the same essays, or different, but you have to make a new/ or copy of the common ap - instructions on site how to do this. So it’s up to you. My son submitted same essays to all common ap schools - wrote custom essays for schools that did not use common ap. He also did an “actvities list” that was four pages long and attached it at the very end of the common app. It detailed his honors, activities, community and school involvement a bit more than the common ap allows.</p>
<p>OK, so it is possible to submit different essays, but why would you want to go through the trouble? Write one really good essay that will go on the CA, then work on the supplements instead of writing a bunch of lower quality essays on the CA and then having to write twice as many for the supps</p>