<p>It says on the common app website:
"Note: Please do not mix-and-match your application, supplement, and payment between online and paper submission. Either submit the application, supplement and payment (or fee waiver) online, or submit them all by mail."</p>
<p>i mailed in my common application, supplement, and payment, but my teachers sent in my recommendations through edocs.</p>
<p>is that okay?</p>
<p>Yes - you, the applicant, used the same method for all of your submissions. Applicants have no control over the items submitted by your HS, teacher recs, etc.</p>
<p>The Common App says “please.” However, does anyone know what happens if you in fact mix and match? For example, say you have maxed out on the 20 applications that the Common App permits on it electronic web site. You then submit a bunch more via paper with a check for the application fee. Then, you tell your teachers to submit their recs. The question becomes, can the teachers and the school still submit electronically, or must they all then submit via paper and conform to your method of submission? I think that as long as the stuff gets to the colleges with the right id noted, they have staff to put it all together. The only people who may get annoyed are the lower-level admin staff who put together the apps – the actual readers and adcoms (I think) could care less how the file is assembled! So, it is nice that the Common App says, “please,” but that is different than saying “not permitted,” or “won’t be accepted” or some such.</p>