<p>Just wondering, when you apply via common app to a list of schools, do the schools you apply to know which other schools you are sending an application to?</p>
<p>simple answer: no!</p>
<p>If you send the Common App to all your schools at once, the answer is yes. If you send it to one school at a time, the answer is no. Search these threads for instructions on how to send the Common App to one school at a time.</p>
<p>omg. are you serious? the common app FAQ states otherwise. if what you said is true, I actually screwed myself over with four colleges. ***?</p>
<p>oh man. i'm thinking of reapplying now. $#^%# could anyone confirm if its true?</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. If it is true (and I believe it is), you're not going to be penalized because one college knows you've applied to another. They generally assume you did.</p>
<p>hmm, is that the majority opinion, that it is true? what made you believe so? I sure hope i didn't spend 30 mins re-planning my year just because you were suspicious of common app.</p>
<p>I did a search for the common app but I couldn't find anything. Could you elaborate on the proper way to send apps individually Chedva? There seems to be conflicting answers between Chedva and BobbyPires</p>
<p>You simply complete the app and send it to one college. When you log into your account again, the first page you should see is the Checklist page. When you go to the Application page, you will find that you cannot make changes to the application any more. At the top of the page there is a scroll bar titled Applications. Select the application you want to send to another college and click on "copy". That will generate an alterable copy of that application that you can send to another college.</p>
<p>From the CommonApp FAQs:
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If I use the Common Application to apply to multiple colleges, will the other colleges know to which colleges I have applied? Will they know if I applied somewhere else Early Decision or Early Action? </p>
<p>No. When you use the Common Application to apply to multiple colleges, each individual college knows only that you applied to their specific institution. They do not know if, or where, you also applied. Also, only the college to which you apply ED or EA will know that. No other college will know if, or where, you applied ED or EA.
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<p>Okay-
So if a student wants to write an essay specificly targeted a school and that school requires the common app, can the student change the essay when they do the "copy" method for subsequent schools?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, that's exactly how it works. Send the app one at a time and tailor as necessary.</p>
<p>So the colleges I apply ED/EA will see all the colleges I apply RD?</p>
<p>No. You send it to the EA/ED school. You make a copy, edit as necessary and send the copy to RD School 1. You make a copy, edit as necessary and send the copy to RD School 2, and so on. The college sees only what you sent to it.</p>
<p>No my question was about this</p>
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Also, only the college to which you apply ED or EA will know that. No other college will know if, or where, you applied ED or EA.
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<p>Let's say I apply to abc ED/EA and apply to xyz RD. Will abc find out I applied to RD. Is that what that quote means?</p>
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No. You send it to the EA/ED school. You make a copy, edit as necessary and send the copy to RD School 1. You make a copy, edit as necessary and send the copy to RD School 2, and so on. The college sees only what you sent to it.
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<p>So this requires non-electronic work? meaning we need to do it on the paper to do that?</p>
<p>1) Your EA/ED school will not know where you applied RD. Your RD school will not know where you applied EA/ED. RD1 will not know that you applied to RD2 or to EA/ED. One school does not know that you applied to any other unless you tell them.</p>
<p>2) The "copy" I mentioned in my post, quoted above, is an electronic copy. It's not done on paper. The instructions on how to do that are posted on the Common App website.</p>