<p>In the "My Colleges" section of the Common Application, it reads, "All colleges selected on this list receive your current active application at the same time."</p>
<p>Does this mean that the instant a school is added to the list it receives a partially-complete application? Is it necessary to complete the application entirely before adding schools to the "My Colleges" section?</p>
<p>Colleges only receive the application whenit is complete and you hit the send button. If you want to let other common app colleges "'see" where you are applying- and this is not necessariy recommended- if you fill in the names of all the colleges you are sending the common app. to, they will ALL get your COMPLETED app once you hit the enter button. If you DON'T want them to see where else you are applying, then fill in the "my colleges"section one college at a time.</p>
<p>No, let me explain what that means. It means that when you complete your application and press Submit (with everything filled out), every school will receive it at the same time.
You should not be pressing Submit before your application is complete. Anyway it won't send if you don't fill the required fields or if you haven't paid the fee yet</p>
<p>That's news to me if colleges see what other schools receive the common application, if I understand what menloparkmom is saying. </p>
<p>We found it useful to create a long and complete list of colleges to see the application deadlines, who offers EA, and check out the supplements. Then when it is time to submit the EA applications, you remove all the colleges from the list that you are not applying to, leaving for example 4 colleges that offer EA. Hit the "submit" button and submit 4 applications. Then later add the other colleges, delete the colleges already applied to, and submit the second round later. (We never had a 2nd round, but that was the gameplan).</p>
<p>Njres- that's one strategy, but another is to not let any college know where else you are applying, particularly if you are applying to a range of colleges, from safeties to reaches. Then the AD com's are forced to judge you based on your own merits, without the added factor of where they think you are more likely to matriculate.</p>
<p>Okay guys, help me out here as I S and I sat down yesterday to begin filling Comm. App out. If he submits app. with all the schools he is applying to at once, all the schools will see "the competition". Right now, my saved form does show 4 schools on it, but we have not submitted it yet. So, the best strategy is to submit to only 1 school, then delete that name and put in 2nd school, submit, and continue this process so only one school is highlighted at a time? Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>septembermom, you've got it. One school at a time.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Gee I don't know how I would get through this without this forum. They don't mention this when you read the Comm. App. 10 pages of directions!! Just when you think you will save a few minutes by submitting to all at once, the truth is revealed! Thanks again.</p>
<p>Sorry guys, but I checked the common app website, and they answer that specific question I think unambigously. From the common app FAQ,
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If I use the Common Application to apply to multiple colleges, will the other colleges know to which colleges I have applied? Will they know if I applied somewhere else Early Decision or Early Action? **</p>
<pre><code>No. When you use the Common Application to apply to multiple colleges, each individual college knows only that you applied to their specific institution. They do not know if, or where, you also applied. Also, only the college to which you apply ED or EA will know that. No other college will know if, or where, you applied ED or EA.
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<p>NJres,
Are you really willing to encourage students to trust the same organization that this year alone mis-scored hundreds of SAT scores and lost AP scores for scores of students? I don't and wouldn't advise it. Better to be sure that students don't GIVE colleges information that could hurt them when admission decisions are made.</p>
<p>No, of course I don't trust those lying scheming so and sos!! And I can spell small words, it's the big words like "unambigously" (sic) that give me trouble! LOL</p>