<p>i know it says to list step-parents in the additional information section, but can’t you just list him/her as a legal guardian and fill in the information? or are they still considered a parent…</p>
<p>ahha weird question, but yeah.</p>
<p>In the common application it has a section where it asks you to elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities (club, job)…what am i suppose to write about by elaborating?..any suggestions, answers, help?</p>
<p>and also…for the section where it asks you for any honors you have recieved (i.e. cum laude)…what could be some other examples of honors that could be put down?..haha sry i have no clue what to put down</p>
<p>It’s up to you. Just answer the question. You just answered your own question: “what am I supposed to write about by elaborating?” You said, “it asks you to elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities (club, job)…” You answered it already. Some honors include any AP scores you received, National Merit honors, and Honor Roll.</p>
<p>ok thanks…but is it suppose to be written in a formal short essay?..how in depth should i elaborate</p>
<p>Mine was sort of creative- not really formal at all. It was just this short story that took place during one of my stage crew rehearsals- it explained how much time I put into a show, why I love theater, all that good stuff, but it was still short.</p>
<p>so i’m pretty confused about the common app, or at least that’s how i feel.</p>
<p>1) when do the yale, harvard, and princeton supplements come out? stanford’s is already out so now i’m just wondering how long it’ll take the other 3 schools to post theirs.</p>
<p>2) why does the online app have fewer things to fill out than the paper app? for example, i dont see the athletic supplement anywhere. </p>
<p>3) do i print out the midyear report, secondary school report, teacher recommendation forms and give them to my counselor/teachers and then have them mail it in? or is there a way to do this all online? i only see that you can download the forms not a way to do it all online. and if i have to fill out all these forms for 4 schools, do i just make copies of them? </p>
<p>thank you! obviously i have a lot of questions :)</p>
<p>1.) Look it up on the individual colleges’s website .</p>
<p>2.) There should be an athletic supplement in the online app, they’re just not together. Either that, or you need to submit the athletic supplement (I didn’t even know that existed!) on paper and the rest can be sent online.</p>
<p>3.) Yes. I think they’re trying to make it possible to fill out the recs online, but it’s okay for all the things you mentioned to be submitted on paper.</p>
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<li>There’s a thread on the Common Application. I know it’s a lot, but it might help.</li>
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<p>i’ve read on the common app website that if you fill the app online, it should all be done online and same with paper. </p>
<p>is there a problem if i fill supplements/app online and then mail/print the recs and reports and stuff out? </p>
<p>thank you :)</p>
<p>There’s a thread on the common application. Read through it before you ask any more questions, okay? The answer is, if it’s not online, then do it on paper. Some things you cannot do online, so you do them on paper.</p>
<p>A question about declaring race (not for me, for a class of '09 friend of mine):
If you are, say, half Filipino and half Caucasian, would you tick both “Asian” and “Caucasian”, OR only tick “Other” and fill in this detail?</p>
<p>The wording of the section (select “each race with which you associate”) seems a little bit ambiguous in this case, because it’s not like my friend associates with both the Caucasian AND Asian races. she’s mixed!</p>
<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>I’m looking at a few schools like UPenn and Northwestern to include in my Common App for the 2008 application year. One major question that people don’t seem to have the answer to is how admission to special programs (competitive programs other than the general CAS or whatever) is handled. Let’s take UPenn’s Jerome Fisher M&T program at Wharton and Northwestern’s HPME (Honors Program in Medical Education) if I am rejected from these special programs but would still like to attend the school through the normal College of Arts and Science (or whatever the regular school would be), can I still be considered for that? Or, if I am rejected from HPME or the Wharton M&T programs, am I also automatically eliminated from consideration for UPenn and Northwestern as a whole? Thanks.</p>
<p>in the extracurriculars section… where they ask position held or honors or letters earned… do we have to specify the grade those honors/positions were held?</p>
<p>When do most colleges put their supplements up on the Common App’s website? Although some of the schools give a date, most are pretty mum about it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Moderator Note:</p>
<p>Merging with “Question…Please Help” thread with CA Q&A sticky thread.</p>
<p>superdigg: You can check both, I think. The directions say to “check all that apply.”</p>
<p>nmishra: I know that Washington University lets you pick some schools in order of preference (e.g. #1 is college of arts and sciences, #2 is school of business) and I think if you get rejected from the college of arts and sciences, they consider you for the school of business. I’m not sure if that’s how it actually works, though. You should probably contact the individual schools or look at the school websites, or you can wait to see if anyone else here answers. </p>
<p>valentinocuevas: No.</p>
<p>HockeyPlayer4Eva: If the schools give a date, they will probably get it in by that date. If not, just wait a few weeks. Supplements usually don’t take that long to complete, anyway.</p>
<p>Some questions:</p>
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<li><p>If I’m interested in bioengineering & pre-med, would I specify Engineering or Biomedical sciences?</p></li>
<li><p>Is an “undecided” for future career/professional plans bad?</p></li>
<li><p>For summer schools, I attended summer school at a university, but the CEEB lookup will only accept high schools! What should I do? Also, the university name and course name don’t fit in the text box (it stops me after 50 char), can I abbreviate Government and Economics to Govt and Econ?</p></li>
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<li><p>What do you mean? You mean as a major or for a school’s program? If you’re interested in bioengineering, you can put that as a major. Just make sure the school offers that major. It’s your choice to apply to the school’s Engineering program, if that’s what you meant.</p></li>
<li><p>No. Lots of people are undecided about everything at age 17.</p></li>
<li><p>That will happen, because you’re trying to fill out the secondary school section, not the colleges/universities section. Now, if what you did at the college/university wasn’t for college credit, you now see how annoying the Common App is. Last year I was able to put a summer program I did at Seatte U. that wasn’t for credit.</p></li>
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<li><p>on the common app it asks for your “academic interests”… there is no bioengineering, only engineering or biological/biomedical sciences</p></li>
<li><p>ok :)</p></li>
<li><p>edit: wow, i am ■■■■■■■■. there is a checkbox under it for courses taken at a university. thanks :)</p></li>
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<p>follow up question… i took the course for high school credit, not college credit, so how would i indicate that? also, since it only says “school name” should i not list the class i took?</p>
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<li>Then pick one. It’s honestly not that big a deal. </li>
<li>Fill in the code. If you have to, you might put down in the Additional Info section that what you did wasn’t for credit but was just a summer school program.</li>
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