First/Second/Third Trimester

<p>For international students CommonApp is really very confusing especially when we have a complete different system in our country. My counselor doesn't know what to write in 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimester? What do they write in that spaces?</p>

<p>The idea of that section is to communicate to your schools what courses you are taking now and what courses you expect to take for the rest of this school year and how much credit your school gives you for each of those courses. You don’t have to use all the columns.</p>