To manage your students’ Common App requests:

1. From your educator account, click Features and select College Planning.
   

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   • Or, from your dashboard, click the College Planning card.
2. Next to Common App, click Manage to land on your list of student requests.
   

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• 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.
3. Next to the student’s name whose documents you’re going to send, click Review.
   

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• This opens a brief overview of the forms to fill out, and the colleges the student is planning to apply to.
4. Click Complete form to open and fill out the form.
   

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• Each form will only need to be filled out once and will be applied to any current and future schools the student adds.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Assign a request to yourself

If the counselor assigned to a request can't complete it, someone else at the same school with administrator access can take it on. This might happen if the student chose the wrong counselor. The name of the person originally assigned to the request will still show as the sender. Counselors with administrator access can also unsubmit forms for someone else.

Note: Only those with administrator access can create or make these changes. To learn more about educator access and permissions, read the article on Educator permissions.

To manage student requests on behalf of another counselor:

1. From your educator account, click Features and select College Planning.
   

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   • Or, from your dashboard, click the College Planning card.
2. Next to Common App, click Manage to land on your list of student requests.
   

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3. From the My requests dropdown, click Other counselors' requests.
   

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4. 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.
• You can also unsubmit forms. Follow the steps in Unsubmit a Common App form below, starting with step 4.
5. If the other counselor has not set up their counselor profile, or if the student has assigned the request to the wrong person, click Assign to me.
• Click the Other counselors' requests dropdown and select My requests to find the forms you've just assigned to yourself.

Tip: Track who was the last person to update the forms by clicking Review on the student request.

Unsubmit a Common App form

If a mistake was made while filling out a Common App form, you have two options: 

1. You can correct the errors by completing an Optional report.
2. If the college hasn't downloaded it yet, you can unsubmit the form, edit it, and resend it.

Note: Not all forms can be unsubmitted. The Fee Waiver, Early Decision 1, and Early Decision 2 forms cannot be unsubmitted.

To unsubmit a Common App form:

1. From your educator account, click Features and select College Planning.
   

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   • Or, from your dashboard, click the College Planning card.
2. Next to Common App, click Manage to land on your list of student requests.
   

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3. Find the student whose form you want to unsubmit, and click Review.
4. Locate the form, click the Options dropdown, and select Unsubmit form.
• The form cannot be unsubmitted if the college has already saved it. If this is the case, a notice will pop up letting you know.
• If the form you're unsubmitting is dependent on other forms, those will need to be unsubmitted as well. A notice will pop up for you to select and Unsubmit the other forms. Once you've selected them all, click Done.
5. To confirm the original submission dates will be deleted and the form removed from Common App, click Unsubmit.
6. To complete and resend the form to Common App, follow the steps above under Manage your Common App request.

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