New, Shared Candidate Profile Not Yet Available?

Prep School Admissions
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<p>I'll quote from the Andover site, as it's complicated.</p>

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Students applying for the 2011-2012 academic year will receive information regarding our updated application in the early fall. Please do not complete the current application available on-line.
In an era of sustainability, Phillips Academy is transitioning to a more environmentally friendly application process. This year, candidates for admission will be able to complete the Candidate Profile, which is the first part of the application, by submitting either the online version or the paper version. All candidates will receive a paper application in the mail.
In an effort to assist families with the admission process, the following secondary schools - Deerfield Academy, Groton School, The Hotchkiss School, The Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Paul's School, and The Taft School - have agreed to pilot a shared Candidate Profile as the first step in the application process. A student who is applying to more than one school from the above list should forward a copy of the completed Candidate Profile along with the requisite application fee to each school to which he/she intends to apply. This can be done by mailing a photocopy or e-mailing a scanned attachment to each school's admission office. Submitting the Candidate Profile to one school does not send it to all other schools.
To initiate the application process at Andover, please complete the Candidate Profile, which is the first part of the application. The Candidate Profile may be submitted in one of the following three ways; please choose only one:

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<p><a href="http://www.andover.edu/Admission/HowToApply/Pages/default.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.andover.edu/Admission/HowToApply/Pages/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So, Deerfield, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, PA, PEA, St. Paul's, and Taft are piloting a shared Candidate Profile. Which one should submit, before scheduling interviews. However, it's not ready yet, so wait until September.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my middle child's already requested material from several of the above named schools. Candidate Profiles were likely submitted. </p>

<p>Does anyone have a best guess as to how to proceed? Will duplicate Candidate Profiles be a problem? Is the shared Candidate Profile system already functioning, or will it be up and running in the fall?</p>

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<p>The same thing took place last admission’s cycle. Perhaps, they are tweaking the format for 2011-12 but it’s not new and should work fine.</p>

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<p>I don’t think they will drastically change the application. They might just add a question or remove one. They had the same thing this past admission season with the shared profile </p>

<p>Andover probably just doesn’t want someone to complete the application now, and send it in already.</p>

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<p>The form you fill out when requesting info is not the same as the candidate profile. You’ll have to do new ones when your student knows where to apply. Remember, the profile asks all those questions about where the parents went to college, siblings, legacies, etc.</p>