Collegecow

Hey everyone;

I'm an international applicant (Asian).

I was wondering when should I start sending applications for admissions to the colleges I've shortlisted. I'm taking the SAT once again this November (got a 2170 last time, aiming for 2200+).

Also, apart from submitting our application through the commonapp website, what else do we have to do? I mean which documents do we have to mail them? Can the teachers/counselors just submit the recommendation letters online?

Thanks!

Yurtle

They can submit online, and send out your app's when you're done. I am almost 99% done. I just want to re-write a supplement for a school (Just the why ____? Essay) and everything will have been sent out and finished.

The only thing that is usually mailed, but I could see being faxed would be transcripts.

R124687

I'm sure they'd love to start receiving your apps whenever you are ready. For schools here, most kids have to start requesting their transcripts be sent to colleges NOW, in order to meet their Jan 1, 2010 deadline. So, it's better to have your application in so that the transcripts don't get "lost in the madness". That way an account has already been created when transcripts arrive. In the US - a transcript means your grades (etc.) from your high school. YOu can update/add your standardized test scores later. But I know that my D just got an e-mail from a school she'd listed on her Common Application. She hadn't finished, and hadn't sent any yet. But the e-mail was a gentle nudge. Obviously the school can SEE that she'd started an application and listed them as a receipient, even though she hadn't sent it. Harvard asked "Hey...I see you've got a Common App account...how about you send that in now, huh?"

So of course they really WANT them all sent as early as possible so they can start reading. Harvard, for example, doesn't have any Early Decision candidates...so they're raring to go, hoping to get through as many as possible BEFORE the January deadline. That's my interpretation.

Good luck.