daijobu Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 I'm poking around the Secondary Schools section, and I see that there is room for 4 different schools. In addition to "Home Schooled" which I will select, I can also add some other vendors we have used like PAH and SOHS. This is helpful because in the "Courses and Grades" section of the CA, it will populate a pull down menu with a list of schools she's taken, and we can enter her PAH and SOHS classes as having been taking with those vendors, which seems more accurate than having taken them at my homeschool, which one could argue is also true. But if I choose to add more than one secondary school, the CA prompts the student: "Please provide details about why you left each of the above secondary schools." which sounds a bit negative and implies that we were enrolled full time. N.B., the Courses and Grades section is new this year I believe and not widely required by colleges yet. Any thoughts on the best way to approach this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirabillis Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Are you filling out a pretend app like quark suggested to do - is this for UC schools or Common App? (I think you are) If so, do you find it immensely helpful? And what things have you discovered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daijobu Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 Common App. Though I had planned to work through the UC app as well. I'm learning so much about the idiosyncrasies, and I'm really glad to be doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkT Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 I'm poking around the Secondary Schools section, and I see that there is room for 4 different schools. In addition to "Home Schooled" which I will select, I can also add some other vendors we have used like PAH and SOHS. This is helpful because in the "Courses and Grades" section of the CA, it will populate a pull down menu with a list of schools she's taken, and we can enter her PAH and SOHS classes as having been taking with those vendors, which seems more accurate than having taken them at my homeschool, which one could argue is also true. But if I choose to add more than one secondary school, the CA prompts the student: "Please provide details about why you left each of the above secondary schools." which sounds a bit negative and implies that we were enrolled full time. N.B., the Courses and Grades section is new this year I believe and not widely required by colleges yet. Any thoughts on the best way to approach this? I agree that comes across quite negative - I would just add that information with the provider website in a detailed course list Not familiar with the Common App because so far none of the schools DS is applying to need it that seems to be quite "nosey" and unnecessary - who created this thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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