<p>I think i already know this answer but I'll ask it anyway in case magical thinking can happen.</p>
<p>My D and I have been talking about the common app and the best way to approach it (for example, listing all ECs under activities vs. only the top 6 that all are in the same field) and it occurs to me that some colleges would respond differently to that app than others. I don't guess you can fill out 2 versions of it and send version A to, say, 6 colleges, and then Version B to another 10? </p>
gibby
June 1, 2014, 6:02pm
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<p><a href=“https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/962/Application-versions ”>https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/962/Application-versions</a> ;
<a href=“https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/1513/Updating-the-Essay ”>https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/1513/Updating-the-Essay</a> ;
You can only submit three different alterations of your essay. Before and between submissions, you can make as many changes as you like. We allow these changes to your essay to correct grammar or spelling mistakes, not to submit different essays.</p>
<p>Please see an example below:</p>
<p>Before you submit your application to the first school, you can make as many changes to the essay as you like. Once you submit your first application, it is considered version 1 of your essay.</p>
<p>If you submit to a second school without making changes to the essay, you are still on version 1.</p>
<p>Making changes to the essay and submitting to your third school is considered version 2 of your essay.</p>
<p>Changing the essay back to the original or making changes and submitting to another school is considered version 3 of your essay. This version is now locked in and will be sent to any additional school to which you submit your application.</p>
<p>The system will display how many edits you have left when clicking to update the essay.
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<p>wow, now that is really interesting. ,thank you @Gibby</p>
<p>Other than the essays, everything else can be changed as many times as you want between submission.</p>