<p>georgeanne: no. if your parent is deceased, it’s kind of impossible for him/her to have an address.</p>
<p>Haha, I’m not that dense, I swear. I didn’t know if it should become last address, etc.</p>
<p>How do I get rid of the CEEB code? I accidentally listed my stepdad instead of my Dad, then realized my mistake and I need to remove it because he went to college in Russia.</p>
<p>so where do we put unpaid internships -_-</p>
<p>College selections. I don’t get how to do the college selections. Does the student now have to put the type of admissions for each college? Will that go when the student submits the application.</p>
<p>Short essay…With the lines will it prevent any piece longer than 150 words? or is it the same that it will bump to new page?</p>
<p>are most people applying online or through mail?</p>
<p>georgeanne: haha i’m sorry, i just realized that came off as really condescending. i would think that you would be able to leave that blank, but if its telling you it needs an address then last address is probaby fine? idk i would wait until the commonapp tech support guy answers you</p>
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<p>Non-academic awards belong in the extracurricular awards section. List “Vocal Music” or “Chorus” or somethign similar as one of your 7 extracurriculars, then list “All-State Chorus” as one of the honors you received in this area.</p>
<p>You can handle JV Sports in a few different way, but the manner that will save the most space in your extracurricular grid is simply to select (for example) Varsity Tennis, select 9,10,11,12, but then use the “awards” area to make clear that these four years were divided between “2JV” and “2V”</p>
<p>The system will give you an error message if you try to save a page without required fields completed. In the case of a deceased parent. Try to save the age, and see what errors it gives you. You’ll find that it tells you the parents name and educational background must be completed, for example.</p>
<p>You put them in the extracurricular activities section, if you consider it one of your top 7…</p>
<p>commonappguy, you’re my hero. are we allowed to write about you for our essay 
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<p>Just click on the “CEEB Code Lookup” look again, and select a new institution. There is an option for “International School with no CEEB Code” you can find within the lookup.</p>
<p>If you do a print preview, you’ll see first-hand what it does (print preview is available after all required fields, except writing samples, are completed).</p>
<p>You should always follow instructions and stay within 150 words. However, the reality is the system cannot enforce that precisely, so if you do go over 150 words (and, again, please do not) eventually you’ll get cutoff when you reach the end of the four available lines on the physical application. It will not continue on to an extra page.</p>
<p>Most Common Application colleges get 90%+ of their applications online, and fewer than 10% via mail. Online is quicker, easier, safer, and preferred by almost every college (though it doesn’t increase your likelihood of admission).</p>
<p>Just a reminder that the Common App Online Help Desk has technical support staff on duty nearly round the clock. I’ll try to pop in from time to time, but your quickest route to accurate information is submitting a question to tech support.</p>
<p>Wow, we have our own Common App Tech Support!? Haha, amazing!</p>
<p>Question regarding athletics - I’m not American, and the athletic supplement wants me to put number of “Letters” received in sports. I have absolutely no idea what those are, and I no one around here does either, but I definitely want to be able to show off my running. What can be done in this case?</p>
<p>I asked this but it never got answered.</p>
<p>Is it best to fill in every answer, even the ones that are not required like your parents and family information?</p>
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<p>In general, complete information is helpful.</p>
<p>Hey, I have an interesting question, and I didn’t know where else to put it… My parents both were born in Africa, Nigeria to be exact. They came to the US for college and such, and I was born here. Every summer since I was 13, we began traveling to Nigeria, and besides soaking in the different lifestyle, we visit my dad’s village that he grew up in. </p>
<p>Last summer, my dad donated several desktops to a nearby school and brought a few to his village, and for a few days I went through and just helped some of the kids with the basics of computing and such. It was a pretty cool experience, and I wanted to know if what this would fall under in a college app? I know it’s probably not an EC of course, but would I be able to include this in my application?</p>
<p>Again, sorry if this was the wrong place to post this!!</p>