<p>@kimchidoodles: Yes, your letter should be included in your file as a supplement to your application.</p>
<p>Hey geek_mom! I have another question. i submitted all my apps on the first of jan. What should i do next before studying for the mid-terms etc? My question is, when do schools personally send you a confirmation email? How can you get the id/login name to check the status on their websites? When and how can I check if all my application materials safely arrived?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>@fabxx: My best suggestions.</p>
<p>What to do next: Celebrate and sleep... ace those midterms... then work on financial aid and scholarship apps?</p>
<p>Confirmation email and status Web site: This depends completely on the college. geek_son didn't receive a confirmation message from his ED college, but received a missing-documents message about a week and a half later. For that college, there was no Web site to check status -- he had to wait for the news to arrive by postal mail. OTOH, the flagship state U immediately gave him a userid with a dashboard, status updates, and all that jazz. If a college offers that sort of thing, you can expect to receive an email (or possibly snail mail) that includes an id and a temporary password. Make sure the college's domain name (e.g., xxxx.edu) is in your whitelist so none of their messages will get caught in your spam filter!</p>
<p>Checking if all your materials have arrived: If it's a very large college, I'd give it two weeks; if it's a smaller one, you could try this Friday, but they may not have your file completed yet. How to do it -- just call the college's Admissions Office and ask politely.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Another bump...</p>
<p>My concern regards point 15 - my teacher and counselor recommendations are submitted on the commonapp (except for mid and end year reports, for obvious reasons), but are not marked as downloaded. They are marked as missing from all my colleges who sent 'confirmation' emails.
What gives? Is patience the answer or is there a glitch I need to fix?
I also had my SAT scores all sent on December 25th - is it normal that the colleges haven't processed them yet?</p>
<p>Same problem as post #25 here. Will call admissions offices later this week I guess.</p>
<p>@klagirl and husky82: This one might be worth opening a ticket, if your school forms show as "submitted" but your colleges are indicating that the documents are missing. If that's the case and you want to follow up with commonapp.org support, click the "Submit a ticket" link in post #12 above and choose "status of school form" or "help student with specific question" for the category.</p>
<p>OTOH, if the colleges haven't said there's something missing and you're only concerned that the forms haven't been downloaded yet, I'd wait till the end of the week or next Monday before following up with the colleges.</p>
<p>@klagirl: WRT the SAT scores, yes, it can take a few weeks for them to be sent -- and then a week or two after that for them to matched up with your application.</p>
<p>Hey geek_mom. I noticed that I spelled my first name wrong on my common app which has already been submitted to schools. I know, this is a very stupid mistake. I doubled-tripled checked everything. I guess I didn't check my name. I called the admission officer and they said to send an email. But they didn't sound too happy?</p>
<p>How do admission officer usually look at these mistakes? And should I also send my correction in writing? Thanks again!</p>
<p>Hey fabxx. Don't take it too personally if they sounded a little curt on the phone. They're all crazy-swamped right now. Imagine if you were returning from your school break to a bunch of massive assignments in all your classes -- that's about the way they're feeling right now.</p>
<p>If they want an email about it, then send them an email. Include your Common App ID number, along with the misspelling and the correct spelling of your name. Throw in a little mildly self-deprecating humor (not like "hoo boy, I'm such a dork," but like "after this incident, you can just call me Mud for short"), and you should be good to go.</p>
<p>If you're a great fit for the college and your stats are in the right range, they're not going to deny you based on a simple mistake like this. If you wouldn't have gotten in anyway, this will reinforce their decision. If you're borderline to the point where this would actually make a difference (unlikely, but if...), then how you handle it could be the tipping factor (I guess it could happen) ... so make sure your correction email has a friendly, professional tone and /perfect/ spelling, punctuation, and grammar.</p>
<p>Thank you for the quick reply. The schools I made my mistake are actually my reach schools. Is is possible that I PM you my intend correction email? Can you please help me look it over?</p>
<p>Also, is it better to email them or snail mail them? Thanks!</p>
<p>1. School forms not in by the deadline? It's ok. Get them in as soon as possible. Make sure your application and supplement are submitted by the deadline.</p>
<p>*2. Sure you paid, but payment has a red triangle? * It's ok. Payments are processed offline. Give it up to 48 hours, then check again. See the FAQ pages in the link above if it still doesn't show your payment submitted.</p>
<p>*3. Submitted your app a few minutes past the deadline? * It's ok. If commonapp.org allowed you to submit, then you made it in. By the way, a deadline of 1/2 means 11:59pm EST on 1/2 -- and each college has defined its own "grace period" for slightly late apps.</p>
<p>4. App says "Downloaded" instead of "Submitted"? That just means the college has accessed your application and will soon be in the process of reviewing your amazingness. Lucky you.</p>
<p>*5. Stupid little triangles and squares got you freaked out? * Don't worry; they're not reliable. The text tells the truth.</p>
<p>*6. Applying EDII after an ED rejection or deferment and it won't let you? * Here's how to do it. In Future Plans, specify RD. In the EDII college's supplement, specify EDII.</p>
<p>*7. Not sure how to explain a special circumstance? * Be honest and brief, and end on a positive note.</p>
<p>*8. What to put in the Additional Information section? * If you don't think you have anything to include there, leave it blank. That's ok to do. The Additional Information section is there as a catch-all for anything you have to tell the college that doesn't fit anywhere else.</p>
<p>*9. Submitted on time, but now it shows Downloaded and a date that's past the deadline? * See #4 above and relax: You're in.</p>
<p>*10. Forgot to add something really important before you submitted? * See this</a> post for how to send an update.</p>
<p>*11. Screwed up and submitted the wrong essay or other information that absolutely must be corrected? * Either follow the instructions in #10, or contact the college's Admission Office and ask how best to send a correction.</p>
<p>*12. Want help with your essay? * Please don't post it here. Read this thread first: How</a> to safely use CC for essay advice without getting ripped off!. Then visit the College</a> Essays forum to get started. Allow some time for people to respond!</p>
<p>*13. Where are the Arts and Athletic Supplements? Or how to send them on paper? * First, select the college you're applying to. Then, go to the Future Plans section. There is a completely separate Future Plans section for every college on your list, so you have to do this separately for each college. If the college in question accepts the Common App's Arts and/or Athletic Supplement, you will see questions here about your submission plans. Respond accordingly.</p>
<p>*14. Print preview doesn't look right; some stuff is missing or chopped off? * Not a problem. If it looks right on the Web form, it will look right to the college. See this</a> post for explanation.</p>
<p>*15. Teachers mailed their recs, but commonapp.org says the forms are incomplete? * Yeah, it'll do that. It'll do it forever if your teachers are identified as "online providers," which they are if you gave their email addresses. It won't affect your application, as long as the colleges actually receive the recs. If they don't receive the recs, they'll usually contact you within a week or two after the deadline to let you know your file is incomplete and ask you to resend the missing documents (and they'll even kindly let you know which ones are missing!).</p>
<p>*16. One teacher wants to submit a rec by postal mail, and the other wants to submit online? * No big deal. When inviting the teachers, supply an email address for the online teacher; that makes him an online provider. And don't supply an email address for the postal teacher; that makes him an offline provider. Also, for each college, give the postal teacher a stamped envelope pre-addressed to the Admissions Office of that college.</p>
<p>*17. Oh darn it, already supplied an email address for the postal teacher? * No need to go postal over this. The teacher can log in and check a little box that says he wants to send his rec by postal mail, which makes him an offline provider. If he never logs in at all but does mail his rec to the college, commonapp.org will tell you he hasn't submitted, but your college will know better (see question 5 above).</p>
<p>*18. Submitted your application and now want to submit another app somewhere else, but want to change some of the information and nasty old commonapp.org won't let you? * Sure, it will. Just create an alternate version. Log into commonapp.org using this link: [http://app.commonapp.org/application/applicantlogin.aspx?allowcopy=true[/url</a>]. You'll get some instructions on how to create an alternate version of your application. Manic applico-holics, take note: You can only create ten alternate versions. You can submit each alternate version to several colleges. So if you're applying to 20, 30, or 50 colleges, plan accordingly.</p>
<p>Question not answered above? It's probably answered on the Common App Web site, in one of these two places.
a. [url="<a href="http://s3.parature.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=5524%22%5DCommon">http://s3.parature.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=5524"]Common</a> App Support Center](<a href="http://app.commonapp.org/application/applicantlogin.aspx?allowcopy=true%22%5Dhttp://app.commonapp.org/application/applicantlogin.aspx?allowcopy=true%5B/url">http://app.commonapp.org/application/applicantlogin.aspx?allowcopy=true)
b. Common</a> App School Forms Support Center</p>
<p>*Absolutely certain you need help from someone with super powers? * Submit</a> a ticket to the Common App tech support team -- they're really helpful and responsive, from most of the posts I've read about them. Use this as a last resort, though, to make sure they're able to stay helpful and responsive!</p>
<p>Bump for the applicants who are tackling their 1/15 deadlines "early." :)</p>
<p>15 made me feel great :D</p>
<p>That was what I was just about to post.</p>
<p>Hey, I can not upload my common application essay as well as many other supp ones. I tried many times, but it did not work. What should I do?
You do not experience the same, don't you ?</p>
<p>Thanks, geek_mom, for the help. My son was looking at his common apps to take an essay for a non common app school, and panicked when in pdf half of his additional information that he'd typed in was missing. Good to know the colleges will get the entire thing (I hope :/ ).</p>
<p>Thank you so much for this FAQ. If I had seen this when I handed in my Common App, I wouldn't have panicked as much!</p>
<p>Bump.
@giang196: I think you've had some responses on a separate thread. It's probably the type or size of the file you're trying to upload; if that's not it, post more information about the steps you've taken and the error messages you've received.</p>
<p>bump for galveron</p>
<p>time for another bump...</p>
<p>Bump… maybe this will help to answer some of the questions floating around the forum.</p>