Help! Common App SCHOOL FORMS confusion!

[mamaroneck]

<p>Hi, please help a very confused international applicant!</p>

<p>What is the difference between mid-year, final year and Secondary School report?</p>

<p>I suppose the final year will ask for the most up-to-date and final academic results, so then why is mid-year report due later than the rest of the application (for many universities?)</p>

<p>IMPORTANT: what's up with all these 3 reports asking the same thing about:
'First words to describe this student' and,
'Evaluation: Please tell us whatever is important about this student... to differentiate this student from the others'</p>

<p>Will counsellors just repeat their answers to these 2 aftorementioned questions? Seems silly for them to re-write their answers for each of the mid-year, final year and Secondary School report.</p>

<p>eg, does this happen?:</p>

<p>mid year report-- first words to describe student: timid, ...
final year-- first words to describe student: innovative, ...
Secondary school report-- first words to describe student: hardworking, ...</p>

[amarkov]

<p>Since you’re an international and all, I’m not sure what you do and don’t know, so apologies if I sound patronizing here.</p>

<p>In the US, college applications are usually submitted while you are in the last year of high school, often before any grades have been given. So the school report is divided into three parts. The secondary school report is submitted along with the application, the mid-year report is submitted whenever your school’s midyear grades are available, and the final report is submitted at the end of the academic year. Why there is so much redundancy between them, I do not know.</p>