Common App application withdrawal

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Hey!

I applied/submitted my college application to twenty universities on Common Application. Unfortunately, due to financial circumstances, I realized that I should withdraw my application from two of the colleges I applied to… I understood that in order to withdraw the application from those colleges I should email their office of admission or withdraw them from my applicant status portal (which, I don’t know why, was not activated yet). My questions are the following:

  1. Can I withdraw my applications through Common Application? Even though now the deadline for submitting them already passed? (I submitted them on time, I'm just saying whether I can still withdraw a submitted application after the met deadline)
  2. If I withdraw them after talking to the respective universities, can I delete the applications/colleges from Common Application?
  3. If I do so, may I add other two colleges in lieu of them in order to apply to them?

Thank you very much in advance for your help! :slight_smile:

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After deleting the two colleges, yes, you will be able to send the common app to two others.

I’m not sure if you can withdraw your application through the CA, however. I think you have to talk to admissions. Some colleges want to make sure it is really you who is doing the withdrawing (and it isn’t a prank by another student or an overcontrolling parent or some oddball situation like that).

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Actually, I do not believe @Groundwork2022 is correct.

It’s my understanding that a college cannot be removed from the CA once an application has been submitted. And since the college can’t me deleted and the CA only allows 20 colleges, the only way to add a college is to delete one that you have not submitted.

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I must have been confusing it with the FAFSA (long day… sorry!). @skieurope is correct:

“If you change your mind about your list of schools during the application process, you can delete a school from your list using the Dashboard — just click on the garbage can icon across from the name of the school you’d like to remove. However, you are not permitted to delete a school if you’ve already submitted your application and/or your school supplement to that school. The bottom line is that you cannot apply to more than 20 schools using the Common App.”
(from College Vine)

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^This is what we ran into as well…