tips & tricks about the common app

The Common App application has 1,000s of colleges around the world in this one application.

Each college has their own requirement for transcripts. Some colleges will want an initial transcript and some will not. The Common App will tell you which of your colleges want a transcript sent through Naviance.

The Common App might ask for a variety of letters of recommendation from your:

• Teacher - Each college asks for a different amount of these letters!

• Counselor - Not all colleges ask for one of these!

• Other Recommender - Not all colleges ask for one of these! These recommenders are people outside of Royal = your boss, internship director, clergy, volunteer director, etc. If you choose to ask an outside recommender for a letter, you must enter in their contact information and send them a special link so they can upload their recommendation for you.

You will NOT submit any grades for Senior Year!

The Fall semester is not over until December.