<p>the GC says that she sent the app materials (school report, gc form etc) last week. common app mumbles something about naviance. naviance says the materials were sent from the HS. So what is common app meaning by saying the schools forms are not started? </p>
<p>the other items in the list are all marked as completed.</p>
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[quote]
School Forms Not Started<br>
To assign your School Forms recommenders to this institution you must:
Contact your counselor
OR
Log in to Naviance Family Connection
[/quote]
</p>
<p>what does it mean to 'assign your school forms recommenders' ?? my son logged into naviance and.....</p>
<p>common app - pls be specific! you are a computer and you make pronouncements about deadlines; you gotta be clear , precise and specific without any space for interpretation as well as heavily linked.</p>
<p>perhaps this is a clue to my mystery: my hs uses snail mail to get the app pkgs to the colleges and not the common app. I bet this is germane. some of teh process is autmated within common app, and some is not, and therefore there can be , of necessity, a gap of information.</p>
<p>If this is the case, the common app should not MIS report status by saying ‘not started’ when in fact it has been started , but not yet connected to common app. There s/ be some notation that HS X is not sending data directly to common app and therefore the status for school forms is unknown or undetermined - until there is an eventual handshake.</p>
<p>Just so you aren’t sitting there expectantly waiting for the red spot to turn green, there is no eventual handshake on the common app site between snail mail and materials submitted electronically. Your status will always be ‘not started’ for the materials submitted by mail unless the GC elects to update the Common App site with the information that she has mailed the materials (which few GCs bother to do). The software is, thus, not aware of materials that are submitted outside of the program and there is no system in place for schools to update your account when they receive materials through the mail. You should, however, get confirmation directly from your schools once your application is complete. Sometimes this comes by email and sometimes by snail mail. It usually takes at least a week and maybe two for confirmation to arrive. Often it includes a password and user ID for the school’s online system so you can follow the status of your application through their system which does keep track of materials received by mail as well as online.</p>
<p>thanks for the extra info. I won’t waint for the shape to turn, and I guess I won’t wait for the GC to say anything more than ‘I dunno’ when I ask CA questions.</p>
<p>CA, please make it clearer when you have an info gap, please state it as such; else one gets the idea that you are the be all end all.</p>
<p>“THE Common App KNOWS ALL.” ala Toy story. :)</p>