<p>However, I am an international applicant from Norway, and I've found information quite hard to come by. </p>
<p>On the commonapp.org site, they strongly advice applicants to send their whole application either by mail or online, to avoid confusion. </p>
<p>This advice applies for the entire application, doesn't it? Or do they only mean all my "personal" documents, excluding the school profile, teacher and counselor recommendations and high school transcript? </p>
<p>For me it would be alot easier to send the "my" stuff online, and the school stuff by mail. I can't seem to get a decent answer out of any source, and I would very much like to be 100% sure.</p>
<p>It is up to the teachers and GC to decide whether they want to submit on paper on an individual basis after they are contacted by email from the common app site requesting a recommendation. They can send in recs and transcripts by mail if they so choose. Everything the applicant does should be online.</p>
<p>We are from Australia and this is what we have done for our two boys and it has worked quite well. We have sent all of the Students Information–essays, personal data, etc online via common application when we could. The school has sent the boys academic records, teachers references, international supplement all via the mail. They gathered all of the forms, made certified copies and put them in one packet. It has worked beautifully.
Hope this helps</p>