<p>Wow. I think I seriously just screwed myself over. So, I submitted my common application to a school EA, with an essay geared toward that school, thinking I could edit the common app and change essays for each of the other FOUR schools I'm applying to. And now it won't let me, everything is closed off from alteration. AND it won't let me create an alternate account.</p>
<p>Is there something I'm missing? Or is this it? I mean, it SEEMS like you should be able to edit it between apps, because I mean...I applied EA, don't they realize I'm bound to change some things between November and January?</p>
<p>I don't want there to be any confusion. I DON'T want to alter the common app for the school I already applied to, just the schools I have yet to submit my app to.</p>
<p>You can't change an app once it is sent out (so, if you were to have submitted it to 5 schools, you couldn't change the apps that have already been sent out).</p>
<p>You can, however, request an alternate</a> version for a future application. There is a limit of 10 versions.</p>
<p>Most people would consider it immoral, but you could create an alternate account using a different address -- like a sibling's, another parent's, or a parent's business address.</p>
<p>Okay. But here's the thing, won't my ID number be different on all my supplementary forms because I will be switching between the versions? I've already had all my teacher/counselor recs finished. Will it matter?</p>
<p>I feel awful. Thank God I didn't mention the college's NAME in the essay...</p>
<p>It is, though. I just looked at two different forms from my first version and they both have the same ID number on the bottom of the page. Wheras the new version has a different number.</p>
<p>However, I can see them excusing it because my SS#, name, DOB would all match up.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Coopjust, seriously...I had a mini-panic attack.</p>
<p>Btw, do they discourage having several versions or something? Because it didn't seem too obvious an option to me. Maybe I was just blind to it or something...</p>
<p>Wait, does it really not let you create an alternate version? Did you follow the directions in the link Coopjust posted? What happens when you try to create an alternate version?</p>
<p>Please keep us updated because I was planning on sending different personal essays to different schools, too.</p>
<p>Oh it lets me create alternate versions, I'm just unsure about the ID numbers matching up since I printed off duplicates of all my teacher recs/counselor recs from my original account.</p>
<p>But it seems ridiculous to make a teacher fill out the same form for each school, just because of different version numbers. Yeah. I'm sure it's fine, haha. I just get paranoid sometimes...</p>
<p>I emailed Yale, and my admission officer told me that as long as your Social Security number and name are stated on the forms, they will be able to place them with the rest of your application, if that makes you feel any better.</p>
<p>i'm sure many ppl are doing alternate versions. nothign wrong with that. the common app people aren't making it very obvious that they made it so you can crate alternate versions now. There's just one tiny link</p>