r/CommonApp

Hellooo!

This will be my first post in general tbh im honestly just looking for help and hopefully no racists interact with this post. I'm heading into my senior year soon and currently working through common app T_T.

Anyway, I'm currently in the process of drafting up my personal essay and I'm going through suggestions for as what might be applicable for additional information and I noticed they didn't include immigration status (which makes sense). My parents did come here disregarding the legal immigration process and I am a natural born U.S citizen for context. But the legal status of my parents has heavily impacted my life as it's the reason I had to move states across the U.S (not bc of ice or anything, its other stuff that isn't worth explaining, this was 3-4 years ago) and just the way I grew up in general.

So! the question itself is it safe to mention this in my common app? This is very important to me bc of recent events with ice so so crazy and I really want to ensure that the legal status of my parent will not be disclosed to the authorities in anyway if I were choose to mention this in my application. Would anyone happen to be informed of certain policies or procedures set for these kind of circumstances like whether Common app is allowed to share information like that or is this just a silly post I'm not sure ): .

Thank you for reading, I'm open to any clarifying questions! But for those wondering yes I would heavily prefer to be able talk about this in my application as it is a very important of my life, so please let me know if this would be safe.

Yeahhhhh… so im trying to be calm but i cant anymore. For me, the common app applications opened 7/31 and I was able to apply to colleges that night. It’s 08/12 and not a single school has sent me portal info.

I mean a couple schools did contact me and said I didn’t submit my app when I did and it’s been like two weeks now so I don’t know what to do

Hello! I applied to 9 schools on August 3rd, however only one school has shown that they have downloaded my application on common app and none of them have sent me access to my portal yet. I just want to make sure this is ok and there isn’t a glitch in my application. thanks!

since they give me 50 characters, I feel like this is a spot that could give me a chance to stand out a bit. i’m just not exactly sure on how to utilize this space. does anyone have any examples for what they did?

While reporting my SAT, it makes me fill out a required "highest combined essay score" section on the form. The SAT's that I took didnt make me write an essay, and I didn't take any SAT Subject tests. If i leave it blank it shows that the "SAT Tests" section is incomplete. What should I do? Is leaving it blank fine?

I wish the people I supported the hardest on TikTok gave me the same respect back ughhh it’s annoying!!

Hi I was wondering if there’s anything I can do now or apply to now to add to my honors section in common app. I only have honor roll right now and any national honor societies will be too late to add to my application. I feel like I need to add things because 1st and 2nd honors makes it seem empty and it’s only on a school level </3 Pls lmk if there’s anything I can do, especially for smth that’s state/national level!