<p>Can anyone please help me with this? My counselor and my teachers have submitted all the school forms for my applications online. However, when I emailed a couple of the colleges I am applying to, they said they want my transcript and other official school documents mailed to them. I wanted to ask if this is generally true of most colleges because I have applied to 16 colleges, it is now past the postmark deadline and I am freaking out.</p>
<p>The only forms the counselor and the teachers can submit with common app are recommendations and the secondary school report, so the colleges using the common app have to request all the good stuff like transcripts using the mail.</p>
<p>How far past the deadline are we talking?</p>
<p>My counselor told me that she scanned in my school transcript and uploaded it on to the secondary school report. I insisted that she mail them as well but she said that it would be unnecessary expenditure. BTW I am an international student and international mail is expensive.</p>