stupid commonapp

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>My teacher mentioned stanford specifically in his recommendation, thinking he'd be able to revise it when I applied to other schools for regular decision. I was about to submit my Dartmouth app when I put his name down for one of my recommenders, and found out that the teacher submits one recommendation which goes to all schools. I thought ****, now every school I apply to is going to know how much I want to go to stanford and I'm going to get rejected everywhere. It turns out you can have your teacher email commonapp and ask them to unsubmit their rec, so that they can submit a new one. </p>

<p>I say this because I want to know how many people think they have this problem, and I want those who do have the problem to know what to do about it...</p>

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<p>i didnt submit my rec through commonapp, so it all worked out</p>

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<p>you can create up to 10 different versions of the commonapp if you want to change your essays or recommenders. i changed my main essay a little when i sent it to dif schools so im sure you could upload a dif rec.</p>

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<p>nope you can't, i tried... you can't do anything besides have the teacher contact them, and if it's already been downloaded by the college you're royally ****ed</p>

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<p>You cannot change the rec, but you can have the same teacher submit a different rec using a different e-mail address. By doing this, you are technically using a "different teacher". Then you can invite the new e-mail address and have the different rec.</p>

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<p>I am having my professor unsubmit his and write a generic one for my other colleges :)</p>

<p>And using a different teacher instead of the other one</p>

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<p>How did you change your common application? I made some mistakes in it, but the way it was highlighted after I send it to Stanford EA it did not look that I could change anything! Which button do i click on?</p>

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<p>oh my god if someone knows how to change commonapp after you submit LET ME KNOW
i would love to do so if i have the chance</p>

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<p>Before you create alternate versions of your application, please read and understand the following important information:</p>

<pre><code>**Once the original version of the application is submitted, it is electronically sealed. Although a student may submit to other colleges using this application version, it cannot be edited.

*If you have already submitted a *supplement for a particular college, you will not be able to move that already submitted supplement to an alternate version, regardless of whether the application tied to that supplement is submitted.

*If you have any questions, please ask technical support *before submitting your supplement.

You can create an alternate version of your application by following the steps below.

Step1: You must submit the Common Application to at least one institution. When this is complete, you must log out of your account.

Step 2: You must then click on the following weblink: https://app.commonapp.org/Application/ApplicantLogin.aspx?allowcopy=true You will be presented with a login screen to the Common Application. You must then enter your existing Username and Password and click Login.

Step 3: You will be presented with a screen titled ‘Application Versions,’ where you will see information about the application that you’ve already submitted. You may then click on the ‘Replicate’ link to create an alternate version of your submitted application. When this is complete, a second version will be visible on this screen. A special drop down will appear in the upper right corner of the application to allow quick access to all your applications.

Step 4: You may edit the alternate version to allow for college-specific information.
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<p>I take thank you donations in cash.</p>

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<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH</p>

<p>and i will mail you that cash ;)</p>

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<p>This is awesome! Thank you so much for the detailed info! I send some of then, but at least on my remaining ones I will be able to fix the mistakes. I'll send you all my money when i make some! For now a million thanks!!!</p>

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<p>what do i do if i have already submitted supplements to a couple schools? what do i do if i want to change my main commonapp?</p>

<p>could a submit the supplements a second time?</p>

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<p>Once you submit a supplement I'm pretty sure there is nothing you can do. The only hope you have is if the school has not downloaded the supplement, in which case you could send a torrent of emails to the commonapp people begging them to unsubmit the supplements. I'm pretty sure you cannot submit supplements multiple times, and you can't even make a new account to submit your application and supplements anew from.</p>

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<p>ok, so one of the schools i already submitted a supplement to has downloaded it. so, would it be possible to just send them my application from my original commonapp, and sned the updated replicated versions to all the others?</p>

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<p>so long as you havent submitted ANYTHING to the other schools, you can clone your commonapp into an alternate version, delete the colleges from your original version, and add them to the alternate version and make any changes you want.</p>

<p>again, i prefer thank yous in cash</p>

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<p>So, just making sure...</p>

<p>The 4 step method from GimmeStanford allows us to change school names on Teacher/Counselor Recs right? Or how exactly does the whole process work? </p>

<p>Sorry if that was a really stupid question...</p>

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<p>My new version is not letting me add new schools! Ahh</p>