(URGENT) Filling summer course in the Common App - Yes or No?

unobtanium · January 2015

Hello everyone!

Last summer I took a course at Penn. Now I'm applying to Cornell. Should I fill it in the College&University section of the CommonApp? I worry that the Cornell Officers would go like "Hey, this kid went to summer camp of our adversary college but not us!"

bomerr · January 2015

fill it in if you got college credit/

admissions officers don't think like that.

unobtanium · January 2015

Yeah, I did get college credits. So is it absolutely necessary to submit the transcript? It would take hell lot of time to get to the destination and it might even get lost.

intparent · January 2015

You should submit the transcript.

unobtanium · January 2015

But I only got an A minus, which is below my usual GPA at high school...

merlion · January 2015

lol... some people study at Yale and then do graduate studies at Harvard. Like @bomerr said, admissions officers don't think like that. It can only help you to put it on.

bomerr · January 2015

If you have attend college then colleges can lookup your name and schools of attendance in the nation clearinghouse database.

Academic Integrity is one of the most important factors to admissions officers and if they think you are trying to hide a course it could impact your chances of admission greatly.

"Indicate the number of other colleges or universities where you have taken a course at any time since the 9th grade"

In short put the school on your common app and send the transcript.

unobtanium · January 2015

Okay. Thanks

ka7Scope · January 2015

Was it SAAST?

unobtanium · January 2015

@ka7Scope‌ Yeah. Why?

lottechar · January 2015

Yeah I took a course at Northeastern over the summer and I put it on the CA. It's also good because it shows that you were motivated enough to even do schoolwork over the summer.

ka7Scope · January 2015

I went there too... I was in comp sci. How about you?

unobtanium · January 2015

@ka7Scope‌ Nano. Apparently it didn't help me get into Penn

ka7Scope · January 2015

Too true......if only we'd had legacy

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