Different Essays for Different Colleges

<p>Are you allowed to do this? For example, submit one essay to college X and then use a completely different one for college Y?</p>

<p>How about for score reporting? Can you list all your scores for one school and then not do so for another?</p>

<p>By essay, you mean ‘common app’ essay?</p>

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<p>^Your name should be unhelpful.</p>

<p>I have this question, as well</p>

<p>Well, I hope my aforementioned answer help you. I promptly copied it from the 2011 Common App.</p>

<p>What part of “NOTE: Your Common Application essay should be the same for all colleges.” was difficult to understand?</p>

<p>By name, the application implies, everything the schools are getting is COMMON… essay, data, scores, etc. Schools that want something specific have you fill out a supplemental app and you can gush there. I’m not sure why you would be sending different scores to different schools. You are going to have to send your official scores via SAT or AP so the school is going to get your scores and rearrange them however they want (ie superscore, best test date, etc.).</p>

<p>Well for the scores part</p>

<p>Cornell and MIT superscore the ACT so I plan on sending them my ACT scores</p>

<p>However, I dont want to send my ACT scores to the other colleges that dont superscore the ACT (because my SAT is better than my nonsuperscored ACT)</p>

<p>You can create different CommonApp forms for different colleges. I did so, for example, because I won things between the period that I submitted my early application to Chicago, and the time I submitted my regular applications. I don’t remember how to do so, but look through the help section and you can probably find a way.</p>

<p>And then don’t send your ACT score report to your non-super-scoring colleges.</p>