the ID no. at the bottom of commonapp teacher forms - is it important?

Applying to College
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<p>Here's the situation: I've already submitted my Yale SCEA. That's considered one "application version", and each version has a unique ID number at the bottom of its entire set of forms, including teacher forms and the sec sch report. </p>

<p>When I passed those forms to my teachers to fill for SCEA, I promised them that they could photcopy and reuse the same form for all the RD colleges I'm applying to. </p>

<p>But now to apply for RD colleges I have to create a new "application version", which has totally different unique ID at the bottom of the set of forms. The SCEA teacher forms have a different ID than the RD main application forms. According to CommonApp's instructions, if my teachers submit the SCEA forms with the SCEA ID to my RD colleges, the RD colleges will get confused.</p>

<p>Is it true? I really dread telling my teachers they have to fill out another set of forms just for RD. And it makes sending multiple versions to multiple colleges even more difficult because that means more versions for my teachers to fill out - if I send 10 different online versions to 10 RD colleges, there will be 10 IDs, and each RD college will expect its own ID, so there'll be 10 of essentially the same form for each teacher to manually fill. it's not gonna make them happy.</p>

<p>What should I do? Can I just fill out a blank CA teacher form that doesn't have an ID, and send it to the RD colleges? Will they be okay if it doesn't have the online ID number></p>

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<p>I've emailed tech support about this. In the meantime, what has everybody done to get around this annoying thing? =/</p>

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<p>I'd like to know about this as well.</p>

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<p>Someone said they spoke specifically with Yale about this. As long as your SS# and name are the same on the forms, it shouldn't matter.</p>

<p>I mean, logically it makes sense to do photocopies. If my teacher had had to do 6 different forms...he would've killed me. Haha.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I spoke to Yale (and Duke, RPI, and a few other schools as well) and they all replied that having a social security number and name on the form is enough for them to sort it out.</p>