<p>What do you do if your transcript has more classes than their are spaces on the Common App? (IE, more than 4 sciences)</p>
<p>No worries! Your transcript is the one that matters!</p>
<p>In our school, transcript request forms are filled out by the student and there is a place to check for “rec letters needed” and “secondary school report needed”. The students use a school form for two letters of rec (in my D’s case, one academic and one “arts” related since she is applying to BFA programs) that is then used for all their colleges. Everything is somehow sent electronically to each requested school- We only know this because the students used to have to address envelopes and they are no longer used at all. Should she just check secondary school report and rec ltrs to be sent to all her common app schools along with her transcripts? Any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Just please, proof a copy of the transcript before you ask the school to send it anywhere. I’ve found several errors in my son’s (such as an AP class not being identified as such.)</p>
<p>Question: Do we have to send it all electronic of all paper? I heard that somewhere. However, my school does the transcript thing and other school forms through paper only (including the recs.). Is it okay for me to send my part electronically and the school sends the school forms “paperly.”</p>
<p>How can the transcript be sent electronically?</p>
<p>Many schools now use programs that allow them to convert your transcript to a format that can be uploaded into the Common App system. This is a very efficient way of submitting credentials. It’s immediate and eliminates worries about lost mail or forgotten envelopes.</p>
<p>In our system, as soon as the school forms file (that’s what it’s called in Common App) is received by our system (this happens each night via the scheduled delivery service), the tags on the files allow the system to automatically mark the item on the student’s checklist. The old way, an envelope had to get here, [sit</a> in a dozen bins as our entire staff worked to open the mail](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-reading-today.html]sit”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: No reading today), then get sorted, then data entered into the system before the student would see an update to their checklist.</p>
<p>My counselor said that our school does not/cannot upload school forms electronically. So is it not accepted to send school forms via paper format and everything else via internet?</p>
<p>I dunno if it’s been asked before, though Ive searched the forum for it and couldn’t find it:</p>
<p>Is it possible to send different essays to different colleges via the common app?</p>
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That’s just fine.
I know they added the ability to have different Common App Basic versions for each school, so I assume the answer is yes. You’ll have to submit a help ticket via Common App if the way to do this isn’t apparent.</p>
<p>FYI, everyone: on ever page of the Common App website, there’s a link to submit a help ticket. You just fill out an little online form about your problem and they research it and get back to you.</p>
<p>What should I put down for an EC, I started in the middle of last year and will continue till the end of this school year? I mean the wks/yr I’m usually involved with it, wouldn’t cover it correctly. Should I just put down the weeks I’ll spend on it this year? Or the average I spend on it this and last year?</p>
<p>On the commonapp, for courses, is each column a semester/trimester? or in each box, do you place one class?</p>
<p>I don’t have a student applying this year, but have been peeking in. Dean J, you’re incredibly helpful!</p>
<p>If my school doesn not offer AP, IB, Honors of any kind is it advisable to write about this in additional information? I don’t want them to think that I don’t do anything like that because I am lazy or something ;-)</p>
<p>also, our scholl does very small competitions (perhaps 30 people who compete) like a baking competition. Should I write in honors that I won this competition or does that just sound really lame?</p>
<p>oh, and if you are sending in the short answer and personal statement at a later date, do you still have to check which topic it will be on on the comm. app?</p>
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<li>Your GC must mention it in the school-report.</li>
<li>Sure! An award is an award. Please just don’t make it the first thing on that list.</li>
<li>I don’t understand the question. Rephrase. You can’t submit any part of the CommonApp at a later date. All of the things get submitted all at once.</li>
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<p>“please don’t mention it as the first thing on the list” - well, thats about all I can write down because it’s all the school offers. I could add that I came in 3rd in my school in the "k</p>
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<li><p>I really dunno. Maybe you can list it. But if possible, do try and explain in the additional section that the kangaroo stuff is really a good math competition. But the baking thing is NOT an academic honor. Only the Kangaroo thing can go inside that.</p></li>
<li><p>No. You can’t send anything at a later date. All stuff HAS to be submitted together.</p></li>
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<p>Ah well, a curse on the swiss school system and american honors ;-)!</p>
<p>Thx, I would have sent an incomplete comm. app. whew!</p>
<p>You couldn’t have. The Common App does not allow you to submit your application till everything is complete!</p>