<p>I am a senior who is applying to 9 schools through the Common App. I have already submitted my general application to 7 schools, so the application is locked. On top of that, I have submitted 6 supplements and payment to 4 of the schools.</p>
<p>I was looking over the application again and I do not feel like I have sufficiently marketed myself. My SAT scores and my GPA are average for the schools I am applying too, so I need to put emphasis on my extra-curriculars. I attached a resume for my "additional" document on the general application, but now I feel as if I should give an activity list of all my volunteer work in high school. What can I do now? Do I simply email the schools or what?</p>
<p>Also, I found a typographical error in my Common App already (I didn't list future AP tests) and have already emailed all my schools once to inform them of the mistake. Will I look like I am ill-prepared? Please help me!!!</p>
<p>Breathe. ;P</p>
<p>I assume that you ran out of space on the actual Common App, and so you attached a resume of additional activities. If this is the case, I’m fairly certain that you have more than enough activities that will “market yourself…” Or am I wrong? Did you just ignore the space available on the Common App and attach your own resume?</p>
<p>As for the volunteer work: did any of them make the cut on the actual Common App? If I were you, I wouldn’t want to bombard the colleges with tons of additional information (it gets a wee bit annoying), and so I wouldn’t send it.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it!! If you feel that you’ve done your best on these applications, then leave them be. It seems to me that you’re worried you don’t have “enough” to please the schools you’ve applied to. If you’re applying to the highly selective schools (which I’m sure you are), no one can say for sure how they admit students. There’s no magic formula.</p>
<p>/opinion</p>
<p>Well looking at it, I haven’t talked about individual volunteer work I have done ANYWHERE. I put down that I am in National Honors Society and do that approximately 2 hours a week for 30 weeks, but I haven’t stated how many hours I have in total nor what they were for.</p>
<p>And the schools are Ivies and Sub-Ivies (Harvard, Yale, Penn, Georgetown, NYU, Princeton)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can’t offer you any more of my opinions because I don’t have enough knowledge about this type of thing. Best of luck! I hope your questions are answered. :-)</p>
<p>BUMPPPPP pleaseeeeeee</p>
<p>for the schools that you have not yet applied, you can create a new version of your common app and then edit it from there. Do not go back to Ivies, NYU and Georgetown and tell them you want to add two more activities to your application because you forgot. That will only highlight that you hit ‘submit’ too soon before double checking your work. </p>
<p>Also, if your grades/SATs were only average for these schools, make sure you have target and safety schools that you would be happy to attend. The chances of getting accepted to these schools is lower if your stats are only average or below … they have to save room for special diversity candidates and athletes and sometimes (but nowtalways) these folks have slightly lower stats, but are still very competitive.</p>
<p>How do I “Unlock” my standard writing application for other schools? I want to re-upload an additional information sheet with continued activities/awards that have recently been given. (I submitted an early app in the end of October, and cannot edit ANY common app information, including uploaded docs)</p>
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How do I “Unlock” my standard writing application for other schools? I want to re-upload an additional information sheet with continued activities/awards that have recently been given. (I submitted an early app in the end of October, and cannot edit ANY common app information, including uploaded docs) [unquote]</p>
<p>You can’t unlock it. You will just have to create an “Alternate Version” of the Common App and upload/create changes in that alternate version. Don’t worry, it isn’t too daunting: everything you already did in the earlier “locked” version carries over to the new version, but in the new version you can change it (effectively “unlocking” it!). </p>
<p>See: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/AlternateVersionTechnologyFAQ.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/AlternateVersionTechnologyFAQ.pdf</a></p>
<p>Or, if that link was brutalized by CC, just google Common App Alternative Version and you will get the PDF with the information.</p>
<p>I just did that with UPenn and NYU, but it was too late for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton /:</p>