<p>Does it reflect badly on you to the other schools? Because last time (I'm sending it out again today for a different school) I had something I needed to clarify to Penn, so I addressed that specifically (with asterisks) in the additional info section; I was planning to send it then take it out for my other applications.</p>
<p>To my horror, not only did they lock down my essays after I sent my first, they locked down my additional info section too. I had no time to start a new account and retype and reupload everything again.</p>
<p>This time though, should I start a new account though, or does it not actually matter?</p>
<p>Does it hurt me that I didn't create a different common app application and ended up sending in additional info that didn't apply for some of the schools instead? </p>
<p>Hopefully they won't see this as a "send an essay meant for College X to college Y" oversight and more of the fact that I had no idea how to create an alternative application.</p>
<p>Well, it could hurt you...it would depend.</p>
<p>if your additional info looks like this:
[quote]
Cornell; Blah, specific blah
Harvard: Stuff here
Yale: More stuff
Brown; other stuff
(other ivies, etc.)
[/quote]
</p>
<p>You'd probably be hurt by something like that. If you're applying to two schools that are rivals (sports probably), it could hurt you. I wouldn't worry too much.</p>
<p>Actually it looked like this -- there was only one specific school, since Penn's supplement was so (technically rigid - I loved it for its questions) rigid that I couldn't mention that I didn't have any math courses within my high school this year as I had completed the track (so I could only take it at a local uni).</p>
<p>"Note: For the Penn supplement, I could not fit all my courses into the six fields listed, thus I used some of the fields for the following term.</p>
<p>I have not seen my father since October 2000 .... [summary: a father abandoning the family incident, resulting in some weird parental info fields, etc.] </p>
<p>I missed the first semester in freshman year because I was in another school system..."</p>
<p>etc. </p>
<p>Basically only the first two lines apply to a specific school.</p>