repeating yourself on the common app when all the info is in the school profile

[lewelma]

There are questions on the common app that ask for stuff I already having the school profile.  Do I say

1) 'see school profile' or

2) copy and paste pieces of the school profile into the common app or

3) write it again in a different way?

 

 

[EKS]

I'm looking at the printout of my part of the Common App from 2014.  There is a part in the homeschool section called "additional detail" which I think asked about why we homeschooled.  I wrote a short paragraph that summarized one part of my school profile and then I said "Please see the school profile, transcript, and course descriptions for more detailed information."

 

Another section was "grading scale."  I said "Home-based coursework was graded according to the grading scale indicated on the transcript (94-100 = A, 90-93 = A-, 87-89 = B+ etc).  The GPA is unweighted and was calculated on a 4 point scale.  Please see the school profile and transcript for more detailed information.

 

The "outside evaluation" section was where they wanted course descriptions for outside classes.  I put those descriptions in this space on the Common App.  My course description document only contained descriptions for the courses done at home.  So there was no repetition there.

[Julie of KY]

If it was in the student section - I wrote it all out.

 

In the counselor section, if it was short answers, I just repeated myself. Mostly I just said see school profile or see course descriptions. It all uploads as one pdf with your documents included, so I tried not to be too repetitive.

[JanetC]

I used "see school profile."

[lewelma]

 It all uploads as one pdf with your documents included, so I tried not to be too repetitive.

 

This was my thought.  

 

So why write it all out in the student section?

[lewelma]

whole thing is very confusing as ds has a NZ high school diploma from 2016 but still attends a registered school, while concurrently homeschooling. I've been told that they will read everything holistically, but it is seriously hard to figure out how to fill out the dumb forms. 

[Julie of KY]

I wrote it all out in the student section of the common app because most students have no control of what the counselor uploads and therefore the schools are used to seeing the students write it all out. 

 

[lewelma]

got it. we are uploading the lot this weekend. gulp.

[JanetC]

whole thing is very confusing as ds has a NZ high school diploma from 2016 but still attends a registered school, while concurrently homeschooling. I've been told that they will read everything holistically, but it is seriously hard to figure out how to fill out the dumb forms.

We have a somewhat similar situation in that the dual enrollment associates my daughter is likely to get is also an alternative state high school diploma. But the college registers one quarter at a time, so I can't guarantee she will get all the classes she needs.

 

My school profile says DD may or may not get a state diploma, but she is getting a homeschool high school diploma either way. Everywhere else I treat it as she is getting a home school diploma.

 

Decide what you want the main takeaway to be for the application reader, and use that as your point of view in most cases. Then in one spot, maybe the school profile, explain all the strange details in context.