OFFICIAL Common Application Questions Thread

Applying to College
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<p>Hi all, just found this site and posting for first time. Hope someone can give me advice!</p>

<p>My question is about the athletic form on the Common App - </p>

<p>I have played my sport at varsity level for 4 yrs, and at tournament/travel level since I was 10. I love my sport, but decided NOT to sign up for NCAA Clearing/recruiting.</p>

<p>Can I use the athletic form even though I didn't sign up with NCAA? I'm not looking for athletic scholarship or recruitment, just the opportunity to try out if the school offers the sport. Can the form be used for this purpose? </p>

<p>Also, would it be appropriate to include the form with my application if the school offers the sport, but does not specifically list the athletic form as one of their supplements?</p>

<p>Thanks for your help!</p>

542

<p>When you upload your essay into the common app, your name and a number will be on the page. I dont think it is necessary to add anything.</p>

543

<p>Can someone please answer this??</p>

<p>In the .pdf file for the midyear report, it doesn't show all of my courses... Can I just handwrite in the missing one? Or what else can I do? :S</p>

544

<p>question, Is the address on the common app, the address that I should send out the letters to? (recommendation letters)</p>

545

<p>no, to your school.</p>

546

<p>i meant the address of each college provided
for example for BC
Admissions Office
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467</p>

<p>which matches with the BC website
so all the school addresses should be right, right?</p>

547

<p>oh, okay. i thought you meant that you were going to send it to the commonapp office, haha. </p>

<p>yeah, you are right. just use the address they give you.</p>

548

<p>My daughter is in the process of filling in her common application online. She works on it, saves it, exits, and then opens it a day or so later to continue.</p>

<p>She has indicated somewhere within the application which schools she is applying to.</p>

<p>Yesterday, she received an email from one of the schools, saying something to the affect of, "we know you are planning to apply via the common application, etc etc etc"</p>

<p>The ONLY way this school would know this information is if they had been notified by the folks who run the common application website.</p>

<p>Has anyone heard/seen this before?</p>

<p>I think it's weird and... wrong. They should not be able to see my daughter's info until she is finished... </p>

<p>That being said, she was glad to hear from them, and they did include some useful info to her (ie, it's ok to send the supplemental prior to completing the common app - or vice versa - I don't remember).</p>

<p>But... how would they know she's applying????!</p>

549

<p>Apparently common app can trap the schools on the list that you save and notify the schools that an application will be submitted....We did not list all of our schools at one time; we are adding each school as we apply, just in case d changes her mind......in addition, we didn't think it was anyones business where else she was applying to...Hopefully, this will avoid that....</p>

550

<p>mtpaper, wow! this is disturbing. I thought they couldn't (or were not suppose to) see anything until the "submit" button was clicked. Wow! I'd like to hear if anyone else has had this happen or any insight on this</p>

551

<p>do you all think that maybe the common appl. place only notifies the schools on your list? or do you think they tell those school ALL of the other schools that you are applying to? SCARY SCARY SCARY</p>

552

<p>From the Help section of the Common Application website:</p>

<p>...... When you first register with the Common Application site, you are given the option to "opt-in" and "opt-out" of receiving communication from member Colleges and Universities and having certain personal information released to our member Colleges and Universities on your "My Colleges List" prior to submission of your application to that selected member College or University. .......</p>

<p><a href="https://www.commonapp.org/PrivacyPolicy.aspx#6%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.commonapp.org/PrivacyPolicy.aspx#6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

553

<p>mtpaper. THANK YOU. you are awesome!</p>

554

<p>I've gotten a few "thanks for starting" emails. Got the same from Emory, UNC, and I believe Pepperdine from their own on-line apps after they were started but before they were submitted.</p>

555

<p>Soif DS is almost done with his common app. and did not "opt out" when he first registered, then the 4 school on his list all know the other three he is applying to? Don't think I like that. He was going to apply to the schools one ata time so tht they didnt see the other names. Will it still matter at this point?</p>

556

<p>Good question jym626! Can someone answer this please.</p>

557

<p>someone already asked this, but it wasn't answered: the midyear and final reports only show six classes, whereas the secondary school report shows seven--do I just write in my 7th class underneath the sixth class even though there is no blank for it?</p>

558

<p>Wow, that is actually really scary. But I doubt that the Common App would tell colleges all the other universities that a student is applying to, wouldn't we hear about lawsuits if that happened?</p>

559

<p>you would think, but who would file a lawsuit when they are trying to get admitted. no one wants to seem like a trouble maker. How would we know if they did send the info to other colleges??? very troubling.</p>

560

<p>Who wants to volunteer to email the people at Common App and ask them about this and let the rest of us know? =)</p>