Another Common App Question

[mooooom]

School reports. I am going to mail them. Their references are going to mail them (none of them are teachers, so the forms are irrelevant). I am going to write the counselor letter, but want to customize it for each school and mail with transcripts, homeschool supp, secondary school report, etc.

 

I can't figure out how to do this with the common app, who just wants you to put in teacher and counselor names and email addresses. Help! we are getting so close.

[memphispeg]

I think the homeschool report instructions say that you only fill out part of the school report???? I would call the colleges and get hold of the homeschool admissions person and ask these questions. It might be best to do a hard copy of the common app and all the school/homeschool/references and snail mail it all. But do talk to the admissions folks before sending anything. We are getting different answers from different schools.

[mooooom]

where we got stuck was getting the common app completed to send - it won't send without the school report section being completed.

[memphispeg]

There's some pdf versions to print out if you can't get them to send electronically. I still think you can rig the school report and put an annotation on it to "see additional info." Can you be the "counselor" and "teacher", does that work????

[mooooom]

will all the schools then be notified that I will be sending teacher references? I am not planning on doing that, they will have other references, they just won't be teachers.

[memphispeg]

I still would try to get hold of an admissions counselor in a few of the schools who is familiar with homeschooled students' applications to resolve this.....probably your safest bet.