<p>I've been playing around with the common app for awhile this morning, and ran into a question:</p>
<p>What if I want to apply for different majors at different schools? It says in the instructions that you can't edit your application after you send to a school....so I don't know how to go about doing that.</p>
<p>Isn't it the Common App Supplement that requires major designation - and each school has its own supplement?</p>
<p>You cannot edit your app to a particular school after you send it to that school. But you can copy it, edit it and send it to a different school.</p>
<p>MichaelNKat - It asks for it in the "Future Plans" section of the app (assuming that the sidebars are the actual application?). </p>
<p>Ahh..this whole thing is confusing. </p>
<p>How do you start a new application for a different school? Or do you just fill it out, send it to the first school, go back and edit it, then send it to the second school (and so on)?</p>
<p>^^^ #2 is correct, that's how to "tweak" the common app for each college</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. </p>
<p>At any rate, I'm glad I've decided to playing around with it now. If I had tried something like this for the first time during the school year, I'd probably be insanely stressed.</p>
<p>One thing to remember with the Common App. Most schools require both the Common Application and the individual School Supplement to be sent by the same modality. If you file the Common App electronically, the School Supplement MUST be filed electronically. If you mail the hardcopy app, then the supplement must be mailed also</p>
<p>Check the requirements of the specific school - the Common App will tell you. My d applied electronically to all her schools, but several had supplements that weren't available on-line and had to be mailed.</p>
<p>Also, some schools require that the application & supplement be sent together (the so-called "hand-in-hand" schools) and others allow you to send the app first and then follow up with the supplement.</p>