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Counselors: Sending Documents for Alumni with the Common App Integration

Cristina Hernandez Updated by Cristina Hernandez

If your school uses the Common App integration, alumni students (such as those who took a gap year) may still apply to college this year as First-Year students. As a counselor, you can send their documents in one of two ways, depending on whether the student connects their Common App account to Scoir.

We’ll explain how to use both options below.

Option 1: Student Does Not Connect Common App & Scoir

If alumni do not connect their Common App account, you’ll send their documents directly through Scoir, just as you would have before the Common App integration.

We recommend this option so you don't have to recreate documents that may have previously been completed.

  1. Alumni students should continue to use their My Colleges page and add colleges to the Applying column using the method “Other” (instead of Common App)
  2. They must apply to a First-Year round. Transfer rounds are not supported outside of Apply with Scoir.
  3. Counselors can then send all required documents (transcripts, past Letters of Recommendation, etc.) from Scoir and they will go directly to colleges—not through the Common App

Option 2: Student Connects Common App & Scoir

If alumni connect their Common App account to Scoir, documents for their Common App colleges are delivered through Common App, just like with the current senior class.

Please note that this option may require more work to ensure their documents (ex. counselor and teacher letters of recommendation and school reports) have been created in alignment with Common App's  requirements.

  1. Update the student’s class year to match the current senior class (for example, 2026). This is required in order for them to connect their account to Common App
  2. Students must apply to a First-Year round. Transfer documents are not supported through the integration
  3. Students will need to submit new teacher recommendation requests. Recommendations created before the integration don’t include the required CA evaluation fields, so new requests must be completed with the updated form
  4. If you have a Counselor Evaluation or an SSR, Midyear Report or Final Report on file from previous years for this alumni student, you'll need to recreate them so they can follow the updated Common App format. Please note that the Secondary School Report required the initial transcript to be included, so you'd likely want to replace the initial transcript with their final so you're sending the most recent grades.
  5. Once Scoir & Common App accounts are connected, colleges will sync, and documents can be sent as they normally would for the senior class
In both options, alumni must apply as First-Year students. Transfer rounds are not supported.

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