<p>Please help! I have sent everything in to Columbia postmarked before the ED deadline. However, I did not print out, send, and sign the Common App ED Agreement that is on the Common App website. When I asked my counselor whether I need to print it out and sign it and mail to Columbia, she said not to. Now, after remembering it and feeling somewhat paranoid, I've begun to questions whether I should have printed it out and sent it in. I electronically "signed" the ED agreement for Columbia on the Common App website, and wanted to know whether I should have also printed it out, signed it, and mailed into the Admissions Office. :/</p>
<p>The ED agreement isn’t official and final until the applicant, parent/guardian and GC all sign it. It sounds like what you mailed had only your signature on it. If so, the school will disregard it and wait for the electronic version.</p>
<p>My counselor opted to do her portion of the common app on paper. I printed out the Secondary School Report and ED Agreement like the common app website said, gave them to her, and she told me the ED Agreement was unnecessary, and as a result, only sent in my transcript and the Secondary School Report. It sounds like I needed to have filled out, signed, and gotten her to sign it as well. I have sent in everything before the deadline, except, it now seems, this ED Agreement. Does this mean I now have to apply regular decision?</p>
<p>You are going to need to contact the school directly about this. My recommendation is to try to have your counselor on the line and call together.</p>
<p>Columbia does not require your parents’ signature. Just yours and your GC.</p>
<p>^ this</p>
<p>both parts of the ED agreement (the one you sign and the one your counselor signs) can be, and are supposed to be, sent electronically.</p>
<p>So is my best bet to call the Admissions Office first thing tomorrow morning and ask them what to do given the circumstances? If it would help, I could also call later in the morning with my counselor. [I don’t know her too well because this is my first year at my current school. I had to switch b/c my previous school (private, I was on scholarship) closed due to economic reasons, so I’m not sure how easy it will be to get my counselor to talk to the Admissions Office]. Would I still be able to apply ED even if I mail in the ED agreement asap tomorrow?</p>
<p>don’t stress! I’m pretty positive wombatlikewoah is right. there were no specified instructions on the app to print out, sign, and send the agreement. electronically is and should be sufficient!</p>
<p>My counselor, at no point in time, signed any part of any ED agreement. The only ED agreement that was signed was the one that the common app had me sign and date. Since she did her forms on paper, I gave her the secondary school report and ED agreement that common app told me to, but she only filled out the secondary school report. At no point in time did she do any part of the common app online. If my counselor never signed the ED agreement [online or on paper], does that mean I have to print it out and have her sign it ?</p>