<p>When I log in to check my application status on the tracking system, it says my application is complete and the boxes for my name and birth date are filled....but the box that should contain my secondary school's name is blank.</p>
<p>Is this bad? Has this happened to anyone else? Did I screw up my application?</p>
<p>PLEASE HELP!!!</p>
<p>maybe this is related to a problem I had when I was filling out the supplement…there was a box for you to find your high school’s “princeton school code” and mine never came up…so I had to put the code as 0000, but I still wrote my school’s name down. did that happen to you?</p>
<p>ugh the code came up but when I pressed submit the first time there was something missing and after I filled out the missing component I didn’t realize that commonapp cleared the high school code. the name was still there but now that I review the supplement I already submitted I see now that the box for the code was empty. </p>
<p>is that bad? should I call?</p>
<p>bump. SOMEONE PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ON THIS</p>
<p>CAN SOMETHING AS INCONSEQUENTIAL AS THIS TAINT THE ADCOMS’ VIEW OF ME?</p>
<p>I hope not, because the same thing is happening to me.</p>
<p>I wrestled with that secondary school code on the supplement multiple times; I would keep using the “look up” feature, and then when I tried to save, the code would disappear. I’m confused now because since I was having such problems with it, I specifically checked that it showed up when I hit “submit.” Now, however, if I look at the supplement that I submitted, the code is not there. Reeallllyyy frustrating.</p>
<p>If you do decide to call Admissions, will you please post what they tell you here? I’m anxious about this now, too. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m applying to Princeton. My brother applied there last year and got in. He told me to “make sure I fill in the school code” so that they can make sure that they can view your school profile. Otherwise, they don’t want to look up though a huge list of codes to find it and won’t look at how your school profile, which can sometimes show how hard your school is." This happened to a friend who had a decent average, but slightly low around an A-, at an EXTREMELY competitive school and she got rejected. They use codes to view your school’s profile, which tells them how to look at your GPA system, class descriptions, and overall stats of the school and how hard it is. So yeah. good luck. You have a disadvantage.</p>
<p>^ Yikes…</p>
<p>cman, did you decide whether you were going to call Admissions? Again, if you do, please post whatever they tell you, because after reading stoompy’s post, I am really freaking out about this.</p>
<p>Please call the admission office with your questions rather than getting unnecessarily worried by random posters, some of whom are high school freshmen pretending to have lots of answers. The admission office will gladly answer your specific questions.</p>
<p>This happened to me too. I don’t think it’s an issue. On the supplement print preview page there isn’t a place for school code, just one for location. </p>
<p>The school code is a required field on the supplement, so the commonapp site would not have let you submit it had you left the field blank.</p>
<p>@ufohunter: I’m fully aware it was a necessary field…I filled it out. the problem is that while it was filled out when I clicked submit, it wasn’t after I checked what I submitted. it was technical problem, not a human error so yeah lol</p>
<p>@everyone else: I called the Princeton admissions office to report the problem I had with common app and they said they couldn’t see a problem. they said they had my school’s code and name on my record, so I’m not really sure why it doesn’t show up in my school tracking. both the adcom and I concluded the problem was restricted to the application tracking system and not my application. </p>
<p>furthermore, I got the sense that even if the school code hadn’t for some reason worked, the adcoms wouldn’t penalize the applicant. how would that be fair? when working with electronic applications, I imagine you’re bound to find a few bugs with the software occasionally, and those bugs aren’t the fault of applicants</p>
<p>so my case was settled and I don’t think anyone else with this problem should worry about it either. but if you wanna feel extra secure, just call. everyone I spoke to was really friendly and understanding</p>
<p>and @ stoompy: do you honestly believe it was the absence of a school code that got the girl in your story rejected? there could have been 987698679876 other things that worked against her, such as her “slightly low” average. I appreciate your posting but don’t go around on CC saying the first thing that comes to mind or rumors spread by your brother or other things you simply don’t know. you’re spreading disinformation and it gives CC a bad name.</p>
<p>Thanks cman. I feel a lot better now. :)</p>