College Admissions Visibility

Can schools see where you have applied? Using the Common App or even where you may have sen t your scores - Can schools figure out or see where you may have applied?

as long you don’t mess up and say ‘I am excited to go to Brown’ on your ‘why Columbia’ essay, no.

No, in general, they can’t. Don’t worry about it.

But colleges are skilled at sniffing out applicants who use them as a safety school, resulting in a denial.