Common App has teamed up with Xello to make supporting your students with their college applications easier. Students send requests to educators to send college application documents. For the colleges that work with Common App, counselors fill out and send the necessary forms from Xello.
Every student request includes a School Report that must be completed first. The remaining forms will vary for students depending on the requirements of the colleges they're applying to.
The first time a School Report has been completed at your school, the common school-level information will automatically populate in all forms that haven't yet been started. A banner at the top of the report will indicate that some fields have been autofilled and that changes will apply to all school, mid-year, and final reports not yet started.
Manage Your Common App Requests
When you're selected by a student to send their documents, you'll receive their request via email.
To manage your students’ Common App requests:
- From your Educator account, click Features and select College Planning.
- Or, from your dashboard, click the College Planning card.
- Next to Common App, click Manage to land on your list of student requests.
- Quickly view the status of the forms to see which are in progress, and which have been sent to the college.
- View which forms are tagged as Required and which are Optional. This tag is determined by Common App and is dependent on the admission requirements of the colleges to which the student is applying. For a form to be required, it has to be required by only one of the institutions the student is applying to.
- Next to the student’s name whose documents you’re going to send, click Review.
- This opens a brief overview of the forms to fill out, and the colleges the student is planning to apply to.
- Click Complete form to open and fill out the form.
- Each form will only need to be filled out once and will be applied to any current and future schools the student adds.
- Once the form is completed, click Complete to return to the student's list of forms and colleges.
- In case you'd like to pause and return later, clicking Save draft will save your work.
- To send the completed document to the college, click Send.
- The status next to the form will indicate success.
- To review the form that you've submitted on behalf of the student, click the View PDF link.
Watch the video below for a quick explanation on how to set up a counselor profile and complete student Common App requests.
Manage Requests on Behalf of a Counselor
If an assigned counselor is unable to complete and send the necessary forms for a student, someone at the same school with Administrator access can complete and send the forms on their behalf. The original requestee's name will still show as the sender.
To manage student requests on behalf of another counselor:
- From your Educator account, click Features and select College Planning.
- Or, from your dashboard, click the College Planning card.
- Next to Common App, click Manage to land on your list of student requests.
- From the My requests dropdown, click Other counselors' requests.
- If the other counselor has already set up their counselor profile, click Review to view and complete the forms.
- You can see the information that's been submitted in previous forms by clicking the View PDF link.
- If the other counselor has not set up their counselor profile, click Assign to Me.
- Click the Other counselors' requests dropdown and select My requests to find the forms you've just assigned to yourself.
Additional Resources
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PDF
PDFCommon App Guide -
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PDFStudent Guide for Common App and Xello -
Walkthrough
WalkthroughCommon App Integration Walkthrough -
Recorded WEbinar
Recorded WebinarXello and Common App 101 -
Short Video
Short VideoLinking Your Common App to XelloA student-facing video covering how students link their Common App account with Xello (also available in Spanish).
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Short Video
Short VideoRequesting Your Documents for Common AppA student-facing short video that walks through how to request documents for Common App in Xello (also available in Spanish).
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Short Video
Short VideoXello's Common App Integration for CounselorsA short video to walk counselors through how to integrate and begin completing tasks for Common App in Xello.
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Short Video
Short VideoCommon App Teacher Recommender Through XelloA quick overview of how teachers complete teacher evaluations for students applying to Common App colleges.