<p>If I plan on taking the Sept. ACT, should I wait till my score comes out before sending my common app? (Current score 31; trying for 33+)</p>
<p>I am applying early to several schools, and I want them to have my best scores. However, I wanted to get my application in as soon as possible to give myself the best chances. What should I do?</p>
<p>P.S. Does it cost money to submit common app to selected schools? (Even if you are not sending them the full application till Jan. for the Reg Decision.)</p>
<p>The commonapp, depending on the school, is usually due around January, which gives you plenty of time to take the ACT, get the scores, send them, and even take the ACT again if you wanted to! Colleges don’t do rolling admissions (which means they will look at your application when they receive it without deadlines.) They will look at all the applications once the deadline ends so sending early, unless you apply ED, won’t do anything.</p>
<p>Some schools have application fees, other don’t. The commonapp itself does not cost money. The only thing you pay is when you apply to schools when you submit the application. If your teachers are sending in recommendations by mail, make sure they get there before the deadline, as well as any transcripts or school reports.</p>
<p>You can submit the Common App before knowing any pending standardized test scores. Just make sure the scores are automatically sent to those colleges and they will update your application. Besides, most colleges require an official score report for the SAT or ACT. Therefore, waiting until you get your score so you can put it on the Common App doesn’t really benefit you at all. Look on the school website and it will usually say which test date for the SAT/ACT is the last one you can take that the school will be able to see for your admission deadline.</p>
<p>As said above, submitting your application as early as possible does nothing, unless it’s rolling admissions.</p>
<p>Most schools charge between $50 and $75 to submit your application. But that “Even if you are not sending them the full application till Jan. for the Reg Decision” part doesn’t make any sense. What?</p>
<p>Oh sorry
What I meant was do I have to pay charge for all schools once I submit the common app?</p>
<p>For example: If I send the common app for my ED school, it’ll send my app to all my other schools for RD. So will I have to pay charge for each school or just my ED school for now?</p>
<p>Hope this makes it more clear</p>
<p>You send the Common App to whichever school(s) you want at whatever time. It’s not like you click “Send Common App” and it’ll automatically send it to College A for early decision and Colleges B-G for regular decision. When you’re ready to send the Common App to a school (you do it one at a time), click on that school and follow whatever the steps are to send the Common App.</p>
<p>Let’s put it this way: You can’t send the Common App unless you have already paid the college’s application fee. Since all of the colleges are independent and have nothing to do with one another, you’re paying the application fees one at a time. After that, you can send out the Common App to whichever school you’ve paid the fee for.</p>
<p>If you want to check out what I mean, just go to the “Final Step” page or whatever it’s called. Don’t worry about accidentally sending anything since you would have to pay first, and you certainly can’t do THAT by accident. Hopefully you’ll see what I mean about being able to send the Common App to one school at a time.</p>
<p>In case I haven’t made myself clear enough, here’s an example: You’re applying to Emory early decision for November 1. Before that deadline passes, you pay the fee to Emory and send the Common App just to Emory. A month later, after working on all your other applications, you’ll pay those schools’ fees and send the Common App to those schools. Still one at a time, though.</p>
<p>Thank you for the clarification!</p>