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THE PROFILE SECTION

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Presenter notes


• A comprehensive training resource• Ready-to-present slide decks• Introduction to the Common Application• Getting Started• Searching and Adding Colleges• Explanations of the following sections:

Profile, Family, Education, Testing, Activities, Writing

• Payment and Submission

What is Common App Ready?

4© 2015 The Common Application

• Schedule a workshop for your students, parents, colleagues, or anyone else who would benefit from learning about the Common Application

• Organize your workshop(s) around your needs by presenting the slides all at once or in multiple sessions

• Use the accompanying guide (also recorded in the footer notes of each slide) as your script

• Direct participants to our training videos for more information: appsupport.commonapp.org

How to use Common App Ready


Please begin your presentation with the next

slide.

Now YOU are Common App Ready


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THE PROFILE SECTION


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Sign in to your account

Pro-tip: Bookmarkapply.commonapp.org


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Navigate to the Common App tab


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Profile Section overview


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Profile Section overviewThe Profile section includes:• Personal information• Your address• Your phone numbers• Background• Languages you speak• Your citizenship• Scholarship Information• Request for a fee waiver


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Personal InformationPro-tip: Use your legal name so that colleges can match your application with standardized test scores and other documents.

Move between sections

by clicking CONTINUE


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Address

Where do you want to receive your mail

from colleges?


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Contact Details

Email address

defaults to the one you provided at registration

.


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Demographics

This section is OPTIONAL but can be helpful to colleges.


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Geography

Tell colleges

where you were born and where you have

lived.


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Language

How many languages

do you speak?


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Citizenship


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Citizenship

Pro-tip: Applying for financial aid? Don’t

leave this blank. Colleges need it to

match your application to your

financial aid documents.


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Scholarship Information Pro-tip: Scholar Snapp connects students with scholarships.


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Fee WaiversOne fee

waiver will cover all of

your Common

App submission

s


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Applicant Solutions Center

Help when you need it, where

you need it

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of the year

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