<p>My son and I have just started to check out the common app online. It explained how to submit it online and also how to preview it and print it out, but it said "please don't print it out and send it to the admissions office." Does anyone know why they ask you don't do that? Is it just to make you fill it out by hand over and over again if you want to send paper applications?</p>
<p>I would rather send it as hard copy because it gives the opportunity to use extra pages and make it as flexible as it needs to be to present my son's homeschooled education. Same with the Homeschool Supplement -- I 'd like to print it out, but answer some of the questions they ask on an attached sheet. Like most homeschoolers, what he has done doesn't exactly fit the Common App's boxes and lines.</p>
<p>How have other homeschoolers worked with the Common App?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that the Common Application supplement for homeschoolers is new this year, so I too am wondering how other families are filling it out. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/HomeSchool_Supp2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/HomeSchool_Supp2008.pdf</a> </p>
<p>I get the impression the form was designed by people who haven't homeschooled their own families--it's a little more rigid than I would have expected.</p>
<p>I figured we'd just send it in as a paper copy. I was planning to answer the questions for the "homeschool supervisor" on a separate sheet, and also to attach a transcript which would answer all the questions about course work, etc. I will probably just write "see transcript" or "answers on attached page" and that sort of thing on the homeschool supp., and then send all the paperwork together.</p>
<p>I would just like a way to word process the basic info on both the common app and the homeschool supp, and then print them out and send them with our own additional materials. I guess I could fill one app out manually and then just get good quality photocopies of it.</p>
<p>Try pdfill - it is a $20 shareware program. I have found it invaluable for filling out the CA homeschool and school report form. Google it. </p>
<p>If you fill out the CA on the site, and then print the form it says "application copy" on the form. They really dont want people doing that. If you want to fill them out by hand, you need to print out blank copies (when you are not logged in) and then fill them out somehow.</p>