1. WELCOME BACK SENIORS!! AUGUST 27, 2013

2. www.commonapp.org

3. CREATE AN ACCOUNT Email address Create a password Your username and password cannot be changed. Please make sure you write it down. DO NOT SET UP ANOTHER ACCOUNT IF YOU FORGET YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD!!

4. COMPLETING THE APPLICATION Click on Common App to begin the application

5. Click on College Search to add your schools to your list. College information Once you add a college to your list, you must sign the FERPA waiver under Assign Recommenders.

6. Naviance FERPA Waiver If your school uses Naviance to submit school forms, applicants will submit the FERPA decision within the Common App account, NOT his or her Naviance account. The FERPA question is found within the 'Assign Recommenders' tab of your application. There is a 'release authorization' link to click on to make your FERPA decision. Please keep in mind that you can only see the 'Assign Recommenders' tab once you add at least one school to your account.

7. To sign the FERPA Waiver click on “Release Authorization”

8. READ

9. READ: We strongly recommend you waive your rights to review all recommendations Sign, Date, and SAVE!

10. ASSIGN RECOMMENDERS/FERPA To send a recommender invite to anyone other than a teacher...Click on “Manage Recommenders”

11. RECOMMENDER INVITATIONS

12. Linking the Common Application and Naviance

13. Click on “Colleges”

14. “CLICK”

15. Enter Common App Username Click MATCH!

16. Adding Colleges to Your List You MUST add any college that does not use the Common Application to “Colleges I’m Applying To”. All Common Application schools will automatically by added to your “Colleges I’m Applying to once you have linked Naviance and the Common Application.

17. ADD COLLEGES I’M APPLYING TO

19. Accepts Electronic Docs Accepts Common Application Must Mail

20. Requesting a Transcript You MUST request at transcript at least 15 working days prior to the schools deadline!! In order to request a transcript, you MUST print out your email confirmation and hand it in to your School Counselor!!

21. How to Request a Teacher Recommendation on Naviance

22. REQUEST A TEACHER RECOMMENDATION Ask teachers IN PERSON to write you a letter of recommendation Only send a teacher recommendation request through Naviance to a teacher who agreed to write you a recommendation. Send a Thank You note.

23. REQUEST A TEACHER RECOMMENDATION Go to Colleges Scroll down to Teacher Recommendation Click on Add/Cancel Requests

24. Add a New Teacher Recommendation Request UPDATE REQUESTS