I think you are on the wrong tab @srk2017. Did you click on the my colleges tab? The dashboard tab let’s you download the pdf of the application. Go to the “my colleges” tab, then select the first college listed on the left and then “recommenders and ferpa.” Once there, go to the “recommenders for x university” and scroll down just a bit. All of the templates are available in pdf.
@CA1543 the GC is supposed to attach the transcript to the midyear report. To find the PDF, go to “My Colleges” tab, choose a college on the left, Click on “recommenders and FERPA”, scroll down and underneath the Counselor section, you will see a link for the PDF.
@paveyourpath, @Fishnlines29 - I did exactly same as you suggested but I don’t see any links underneath the counselor section. What browser are you using?
@srk2017 Maybe it’s a function of Naviance, does your school use Naviance? This is what I’m seeing:
Counselor
Your school is using Naviance eDocs for transcripts, school reports, and teacher recommendations. Please contact your counselor directly and they will provide instructions specific to your school regarding these documents. If your counselor wishes to submit forms via mail, you can download printable forms that can be completed on paper and mailed to each institution to which you apply.
PDF Forms
School Report
Counselor Recommendation
Optional Report
Mid Year Report
Final Report
@dfbdfb Congratulations on having such a clear-headed daughter! I hope this bodes well for the eventual decision. D will be making final campus visits in late March so by the time April 1 rolls around, I’m hoping she’ll have all her information in place and will be able to narrow down to just a few. I suspect that getting from the top 3 to 1 will be the hardest.
@MotherOfDragons FWIW my daughter has taken that class (AP Macro/Micro economics) and it is her favorite class. Its up her alley, so she is doing very well on it in fact thats her highest grade. The course is full of economic theory from what I could understand from her homework
@paveyourpath – & @Fishnlines29 – Our school submits forms through the common app - not Naviance. I just wondered what the mid-year report called for and if it said to attach a transcript there.
@Fishnlines29 - No, our school doesn’t use Naviance for admissions. I was looking on commonapp.org. GC and teachers submit to common app. That explans 
@srk2017 Just to clarify, that screenshot was from Common App, I just think those that use Naviance have a different view.
@srk2017 & @CA1543 – I think this is what you are looking for. Form seems the same for the first two colleges I checked, so assume this is the standard midyear report for all CA schools, unless school has its own??
Here are the questions asked on the midyear report on CA:
Academics
Class Rank
________ Class size ________ Covering a period from (mm/yyyy) ________ to ________ The rank is [ ] weighted [ ] unweighted. How many additional students share this rank? ________
Cumulative GPA: ________ on a ________ scale, covering a period from (mm/yyyy) ________ to ________ This GPA is [ ] weighted [ ] unweighted. The school’s passing mark is: ________
Highest GPA in class ________
Attached Grades [ ] 11: Final [ ] 12: 1st Quarter [ ] 12: 2nd Quarter / 1st Semester
[ ] 12: 1st Trimester [ ] 12: 2nd Trimester [ ] 12: 3rd Quarter [ ] 12: Final
Have there been any changes to the senior year courses listed on the original School Report? [ ] Yes [ ] No
Have there been any changes in the applicant’s disciplinary status at your school since you submitted the original School Report?
[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] School policy prevents me from responding.
To your knowledge, have there been any changes to the applicant’s criminal history since you submitted the original School Report?
[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] School policy prevents me from responding.
Note that you are not required to answer “yes” to this question, or provide an explanation, if the criminal adjudication or conviction has been expunged, sealed, annulled, pardoned, destroyed, erased, impounded, or otherwise ordered to be kept confidential by a court.
Do you wish to update your original evaluation of this applicant? [ ] Yes [ ] No
If you answered “yes” to any of the summary questions above, please attach a separate sheet of paper or use your written recommendation to give the approximate date of each incident and explain the circumstances.
[ ] Check here if you would prefer to discuss this applicant over the phone with each admission office.
Attach applicant’s current or most recent transcript or grade report, including courses in progress and a transcript legend.
Please mail this form and accompanying documents directly to each college/university admission office. Do not
mail this form to The Common Application offices.
Yes, it says this: Attach applicant’s current or most recent transcript or grade report, including courses in progress and a transcript legend.
Still I would call GC to confirm especially for the schools that require it.
@srk2017, @CA1543. We are seeing exactly what you are seeing - the mid year report is submitted but no pdf.
We also don’t have Naviance.
I am assuming this would satisfy all colleges’ mid year report requirement unless they specially come back and request information.
@srk2017 - Where can you see if the mid-term grades are uploaded to the common app?
I am similarly confused. I am not sure if our GC will auto submit the mid year report and transcript or if we need to request it via Naviance.
Oh well, I’m seeing her tomorrow for S19 so I can ask then. We’ve not seen a request from any of the schools yet but 5 out of the 7 want one according to the CA.
We won’t have actual report cards in hand until next Friday anyway and I’d like to see it first to be honest. Actually I’d like to see the updated transcript first for that matter.
@jpc763 - on Commonapp site for each college you have Recommenders section and once you click on that you see Counseler’s report and it has a line item for mid year report . Ours is shown like this
School Report Downloaded: 10/31/2016
Counselor Recommendation Downloaded: 10/31/2016
Optional Report
Mid Year Report Downloaded: 01/26/2017
Final Report
I also logged into couple of colleges portals and confirmed that they have received it. Our school semester ended on 01/06/17 and seems like it took GC almost three weeks to submit mid year report.
@CA1543 What we do after AP exams… (I know this was from a few days ago… I’m behind)
It varies form class to class. The district has pushed back & we now start in August. It was terrible a few years ago when school went till LATE June… Making it 6+ weeks after AP’s. And that we quite a few less weeks they had to cram everything in. This year they get out first week of JUNE. YEAH!!!
Some classes do “reports” or projects. My S’s Calc class last year, (AB) they did one more chapter that wasn’t on the test but the teacher thought the seniors would use. Honestly now that the year has been pushed back… Seniors start seriously goofing off, having “skip” day. Plans for graduation. We have state testing after AP’s for the junior which takes up a really odd week. I think AP Bio they did some of the labs they didn’t have time for earlier. Not sure what my S17’s teacher have in mind this year.
@carachel2 congrats on committing to PITT. My senior is all done too, and yesterday one her her friends was over, and this poor girl didn’t get into her ED (that it sounds like she really thought she’d get, so it was s shock to her) and the stress was palpable.
Ordered cap/gown a while ago, it was part of the academic year’s start-up costs. 
Don’t even remember how much they cost, just one of those “hold your nose and write the check” moments we parents get used to.
Avatar! I used to have a giant Galapagos tortoise yawning avatar, but I decided it looked too much like an angry old man yelling at the world to stay off his lawn. So this one is me, ziplining somewhere near Queensland, New Zealand over Christmas. Seems more friendly-like. 
Oooh! Regarding sexist environments,I have a tale for you all, if you don’t mind me killing time while my Super Superbowl Dip bakes in the oven right now.
I took undergrad statistics, a required course for my major, as a summer course away from my own school. I took it at a school I could walk to from my parents’ house, which was Seton Hall. The other students there were all Seton Hall kids. One of the first couple of days in, the (old, tenured) statistics professor was teaching us about…the differences between mean, median, mode, average? Something like that, this was a while back.
He passed out small photos. All the girls in the class got 10 photos, headshots of handsome male models. We had to rate which were our choices for most handsome to least. All the boys got photos too, with the same instructions for rating most beautiful. Then, we had to pass them all up to the front for the professor to collect. So I saw the female model photos as they got passed past me – they WERE NUDE PICS. Not porn, just fashion shots with naked models.
And the most shocking thing is that no one thought there was anything even slightly off about this besides me.
Mid year reports: Marking period ended 10 days ago and report cards were posted Friday. Our school uses Naviance and we got an email with the following:
“The Mid-Year Report consists of your quarter 1 grade, quarter 2 grade, and a mid-year average. It does not include any comments or attendance information.”
Not sure if the other info on the CA midyear report form gets sent. I will remind her to check her college’s portal at the end of the week to see if they have what they need. I suspect they are in the throes of ED2 so it might take longer to upload the ED1 documents. Fortunately her grades were ok even though senioritis has set in.
Caps and gowns: no word on them yet. But if I remember correctly with S’12 it’s around $40.
Notifying colleges out of the running: Guidance reminded students to do that recently. D withdrew drop her rolling admission safety and didn’t apply anywhere else besides ED (wanted to save application fees though we had sent scores to 10 other colleges not knowing she would ED anywhere).
@JenJenJenJen, and Seton Hall’s a religious school, which makes it all the more, um, [searching desperately for an adjective here, not finding the right one].