College Official Form Cutoff

[MonkeyKing1]

<p>On the printout of my college official's report where I list courses it cuts off after like 4 courses, but I have 6 - what should I do?</p>

[MitchAPalooza]

<p>I would email the school or the CA (<a href="mailto:appsupport@commonapp.net">appsupport@commonapp.net</a>) to see how you could resolve the problem. Try the CA first. They usually respond very quickly.</p>

<p>EDIT: I found a similar question on their Support Center.

My text is cut off when I preview my application.</p>

<p>Not all answers that ‘fit’ on the online application will ‘fit’ on the PDF of the Common Application. While the answers you provide on the online application are below the character limit for a given field, it is possible that those answers may be truncated when the PDF of your Common App is generated. There is often very limited space on the PDF of the Common App. In these cases every attempt has been made to fit the maximum amount of text but still preserve the readability of the information.</p>

<p>It is critical that you preview your Common App and check for truncated information using the Preview link in the top menu bar and the Print Preview link on the Signature page. Because your colleges will see exactly what you see, if you preview the Common Application and find some of your text is missing, you should attempt to shorten your response to fit within the available space. If necessary, you can add more information in the Additional Information section of the Common Application. Colleges that use the Common Application are aware that there is limited space on the PDF.

Since you could add courses under the Academics section in the online CA, I would not worry about the PDF. If you’re still concerned, I would make a mention of the problem under the additional information box.</p>