<p>I finished th draft version of Common Apps and finished few supplements for Rice and Emory. I have few qns</p>
<p>1) Upon completing the Common App and Supplements, how am I going to send the transcripts, reference letters? Should I mail them assuming I get all the sealed envelopes from the school? Or my school mails it out directly?
2) Does CB send the SAT scores, AP scores directly to the schools? Or is there any link between Common App people and College Board.<br>
3) Do I need to complete the financial aid profile via College Board even if I do not qualify for the need based aid?</p>
<p>In general how does the common app, CB (SAT, AP, financial profile), and personal trail from my school data is all poured and digested by the universities? It looks bit tedious and complicated when you mix the online and paper version of the documents. I wish my high school can electroncally scan and transmit my transcript and reference letters in the future.</p>
<p>1) Depending on the school, your college counselor sends out the stuff come October/December. Not to worry. You can’t possibly send it because transcripts are documents that are only sent school to school, not school to student to school. It’s official and sealed. Same applies to rec. letters.
2) You pay for Collegeboard to send SAT/AP scores to individual schools. I forgot how much it costs, but it comes out to a pretty penny (in the bad sense). Furthermore, some schools accept if your school college counselor sends out copies of the grades, so find out from those individual schools if they can accept that to save you some cash.
3) If you’re talking about the FAFSA and CSS profile, those aren’t available until later. How much is your family income that you are certain you don’t qualify for need based aid? If you are certain that is the case, apply to schools that give our merit aid, depending on your stats.</p>
<p>Hope I cleared things up for you.</p>
<p>miss_murd3r pretty much summed it up. But since you are wondering, some schools —> colleges do accept electronic transcripts etc. (or so I read somewhere), but either way it won’t pass through your hands first. (which in some cases can be bad if your school entirely forgets that you requested a transcript - but that’s my unique case).</p>