<p>I know there are several threads out there on this topic but I could not find answers to these specific questions I have. I apologize in advance if this is redundant.</p>
<p>1) If you send the Common App/Supplement electronically, do you send the Teacher Eval, School Report and Recs in by regular mail? I believe the answer to this is yes as the GC and teachers send in this information from the HS but it makes me nervous not to have everything together. It just feels disjointed somehow and you are counting on the college Admission Office to put it all together.</p>
<p>2) When the Common App. asks for test scores and you fill them in, I'm assuming you must also have the results sent to the college by ACT and/or College Board. Obviously, they don't just take your word for it. Is this done simply by adding your chosen colleges to the recipients when you sign up for the test? Is that enough or must you sent it again with your application? </p>
<p>3) Because the Common App will now lock after being submitted the first time, must you choose all your schools at that time or can more schools be added later even though other parts of the app cannot be changed. The Common App itself is the only part locked correct? Obviously, Supplements must be allowed to change? Lastly, if a school sends you an app. via email requesting your application, completeing that specific application will not lock you out of the Common App will it?</p>
<p>1) yes, the schools send in what the schools fill out. Traditionally, your child should not see what was written about them. The adcoms do put it together and with good accuracy. Still, at some point you should confirm they have all the pieces. Often they have an online page for this. </p>
<p>2) when you take the SAT you specify 4 schools to send the scores to. If you are applying to a school not on the list, then yes, you wil have to pay to send that one. Each report costs a fee, no discount for sending more at the same time. (dont get me started…) You can log into your childs college board account and see what each school has received. </p>
<p>3) you can add more schools later. The supplements remain unlocked until you submit to that particular school. I am not sure what you are asking in the last question. I think you are saying if you apply outside of the common app, it will not affect the locked status? No it wil not.</p>
<p>I dont know about you, but I am not finding this process particularly enjoyable :-)</p>
<p>I’m new to this, too, but basically I think you answered all your own questions correctly. Don’t worry about things arriving separately to the admissions office – paper recs, electronic apps, transcripts, test scores, etc. I guess they deal with this all the time and they do have systems to get it all collected in the right place. When you think about it, what else would they do? They’re the admissions office after all; they collect applications materials (all of them), and then render decisions.</p>
<p>You can order test scores (up to four included in price of test) from the CollegeBoard when you test, but you can also go the website and order them directly from there for $9.50 a pop.</p>
<p>The Common App will lock after it’s sent, but I understand you can get a one time waiver to make changes after an ED/EA application. There’s information about that at the Common App website. Also, you can always go in and add more schools to receive it. That part doesn’t lock.</p>
<p>If a college sends you their own application via email, and it’s not the Common Application, then filing it wouldn’t affect your Common App one way or the other.</p>
<p>Another Parent: Your last comment made me laugh…“I am not finding this process particularly enjoyable”…That is a mild understatement; think of how the kids feel…When my DD goes ballistic on me for no reason, I count to 10 and say, “this too shall pass”" I think the head honchos at Commonapp.org see this as a large sociological experiment…I wish they could have started it another year…</p>