British student and common app

niceday
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:18:39 +0000

You enter your counselor’s email and name in your common app account and that will generate an email message to your counselor with instructions. The email will provide your counselor with have the opportunity to either create a common app account and upload the School Report form online (once for all your schools) or opt out. If your counselor opts out of online submission, your account will indicate that fact and present you with links to the school report form to print and hand your counselor. If your counselor elects hard copy submission by mail, he/she can fill out a single hard copy of the school report form and copy it for all your common app schools.

Once your create your common app account and add all your schools to it, you’ll be able to see how many teacher recommendations are required/permitted by each school.

At a minimum your counselor will need to fill out the school form (which includes a transcript and a recommendation, among other things) and you will need two additional teacher recommendations. All of these are generic items that can be used for all of your common app schools.

At the end of your fall term (preferably before regular decision deadlines), your counselor will need to fill out a Mid-Year Report with updated grades and any changes to your schedule. There is also an Optional Report for any of your recommenders to provide additional or changed information at any time.