having info for one specific school in your common app additional info section

Applying to College
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<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>

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<p>[How</a> to create an alternate Common Application](<a href=“http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:LGruTRWrEfUJ:www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/AlternateVersionTechnologyFAQ.pdf+alternate+commonapp&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a]How”>http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:LGruTRWrEfUJ:www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/AlternateVersionTechnologyFAQ.pdf+alternate+commonapp&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a)</p>

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<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>

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<p>Well, it could hurt you…it would depend.</p>

<p>if your additional info looks like this:

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<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>

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<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>