<p>i just submitted my Penn ED apps today. ONLY Penn at this time. but then why can't i change the info for the other colleges? i mean the general application......everything is locked down except for the first section "future plans"....omg i'm gonna freak.</p>
<p>Taken from another topic:</p>
<p>"Alternate application versions can be used in the event an applicant chooses to provide slightly different information to one institution from another institution. Below are the steps necessary to create an alternate version.</p>
<p>Step1: You must submit the Common Application to at least one institution first. You cannot create an alternate version until this has occurred.</p>
<p>Step 2: You must log out of the application then go to this special URL: <a href="http://app.commonapp.org/application...allowcopy=true%5B/url%5D">http://app.commonapp.org/application...allowcopy=true</a> and login using your existing User Name and Password.</p>
<p>Step 3: Upon login you will be taken to the 'Common Application' page, where you will see information about the application you have already submitted. The ability to create an alternate version of your submitted Common Application is now activated, and you should click on the ‘Replicate’ link to make an alternate version of your submitted application. When this is complete, a second version will be visible on your screen and a special drop down list that will appear in the upper right corner of your application. You can use this drop down to move between application versions.</p>
<p>All data from your original version of your Common Application will be transferred to your alternate version, with the exception of any documents that you uploaded. You may edit any of this information before you submit it to another institution.</p>
<p>You only need to go to the special URL the first time you create an alternative version. Thereafter, additional application versions can be made by going to the ‘Common Application’ section within your original Common Application and using the ‘Replicate’ link. You may make up to 10 versions, including the original version. You only need your original User Name and Password to access all versions.</p>
<p>You will have a separate My Colleges page for each application version. Each institution can only be on the My Colleges list of one application version. You can move an institution from one version to a different version at any time prior to submitting the Common App to that institution."</p>
<p>Credits to jdpenner.</p>
<p>thanks so much for ur quick reply! that explained everything.</p>
<p>the link doesn't work</p>
<p>Sorry, here it is.</p>
<p>thanks BotD!</p>
<p>when i move between the different versions on the upper right hand corner, for the first time (version 1), i will have to redo my whole college list right? cuz when i click on version 1, it tells me that i don't have any instutions in my college list.</p>
<p>So you are allowed to work on all of your different applications once you have sent in one version to one school, opened the url that allows you to move on to more versions, retaining the first application for your records/reference</p>
<p>I am assuming that before you hit SEND you can tinker with each and every version you set up.</p>
<p>so...after you have set up the Common Ap software to hold different variations for different colleges ...do the applications have to be made in the order you plan to send them...</p>
<p>can you decide later as you go along when you care to hit SEND on each version?</p>
<p>I am not sure my son knows which of his Common Apps will be completed first, so it would be great if he could work on all of them and then decide to hit SEND based on his own factors.</p>
<p>Never mind, I found out the answer</p>
<p>wait somebody answer my question in post #7 plzzzzz! do i have add the colleges to the list AGAIN after selecting "version 1"?</p>
<p>"You will have a separate My Colleges page for each application version. Each institution can only be on the My Colleges list of one application version. You can move an institution from one version to a different version at any time prior to submitting the Common App to that institution."</p>
<p>^^^ does that mean i have to delete the college on my original version college list and then add it to the version 1 (or 2 or 3....) college list in order to change the info??</p>
<p>how are people supposed to know about this alternate link ? lol if it wasnt for you i wouldve never known where to have gone</p>
<p>^
They read the Instructions page on Common App...duh.</p>