<p>I've been using the common app for almost all of the schools I'm applying to, and I only just realized that you could create alternative versions.</p>
<p>I sent the original version of my app to four schools, two were EA and two are RD. After I had sent out these apps, I found out I could create an alternative version, and I made a new version with some additional info added. I just added another activity, URLs for web projects I had worked on (blog and podcast) and I also added a paragraph to the additional information section about how I had stopped taking medication for ADD for a little while and that it might have prevented me from doing my best in school during that period.</p>
<p>These are very random adjustments, but I think they're pretty important. I'm just wondering how I should inform the two schools that I applied RD to with the old version of the application. </p>
<p>Originally I was just going to explain that I didn't know about creating an alternative app, but now that I do, I feel it's important that they know about the changes I made because it could help them make an admissions decision. I'm sure that this is fine, but it seems like there might be a better way to go about telling them that. One of the RD schools is my top choice, so I don't want to mess anything up in regards to them (though, the admissions staff seems very pleasant and understanding from the limited correspondence I've had with them so far).</p>
<p>TL;DR: I didn't know I could make an alternative app and I want to know what the best way of informing the couple of colleges that got my old app of the changes I made would be.</p>