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Students: Connecting Common App & Scoir

Connecting your Scoir and Common App accounts lets the two work together: your college list and application info flow from Common App into Scoir automatically, and your counselor can prepare and submit your forms and recommendations. Getting fully set up takes two things — connecting your accounts and completing a few items in Common App. This article walks through both.

☝️ This applies to current seniors whose school uses the Scoir + Common App integration. Not sure? Ask your counselor. If your school doesn't use it, see Using Scoir & Common App if Your School Doesn't Connect Them.

Before you start: four quick checks

  1. Common App must be open for the year. Connecting is available starting August 1, when Common App opens the new application cycle.
  2. You need an assigned counselor in Scoir. If you see a message about contacting your counseling staff when you try to connect, that's why — ask to have a counselor assigned, then try again.
  3. Do you already have a Common App account? Maybe from a summer program, or created with a different email? Figure this out before connecting — when you connect, whichever Common App account you sign into is the one that gets linked, and undoing a wrong link requires contacting Scoir support. If you have no account at all, no problem: you can create one during the connection process.
  4. Started your Common App before August 1? Your profile and school info carry over, but Common App resets college-specific answers each August 1 — including your start term, admission plan, and the Recommenders & FERPA section. You'll redo those after August 1. That's Common App's annual rollover, not something broken.

Step 1: Connect your accounts

You can connect from the web or the Scoir mobile app.

Connecting Common App & Scoir on the web

  1. From your Scoir account, click Me and select View Profile
  1. If you’re a senior, you’ll see the option to Connect Common App on your profile. Click it to begin the connection process
If you don’t yet have an assigned counselor, clicking Connect Common App will display a message asking you to contact your counseling office. Once a counselor is assigned, you’ll be able to continue with the connection.
  1. When you start the connection, a Common App sign-in window appears:
  • Already have a Common App account? Sign in with it — and make sure it's the account you actually plan to apply with. The account you sign into here is the one that gets connected.
  • Don't have one yet? Choose the option to create an account right in this window, then continue.

Complete the sign-in without closing the window or navigating away. Once you've signed in and authorized the connection, your accounts are linked. You can confirm it worked on your Scoir profile: the Common App panel will show Connected along with your Common App ID. [RETAIN: existing profile-panel screenshot]

☝️ Note: typing your Common App ID into Scoir by hand does not connect your accounts — the sign-in flow is the only way.

Connecting Common App & Scoir on the Mobile App

If you’re using the Scoir mobile app, you can connect your Common App account in a few taps:

  1. Log into your Scoir mobile app and tap Me at the bottom of your screen
  2. Scroll to the Account section and tap Common App. Then, tap Connect Common App

Step 2: Complete your Common App essentials

A few additional steps are required in Common App before your information will be made available to your counselor:

  1. Add your high school — in My Common Application → Education, complete the "Current or Most Recent Secondary/High School" question. This connects your Common App to your school and is required before your counselor's forms can be completed.
  2. Add at least one college to My Colleges, and answer its start term and admission plan questions. Adding a college is what unlocks the next step.
  3. Complete the FERPA release authorization — in any college's Recommenders and FERPA section, work through the release authorization and make your waiver choice. Read it carefully and choose deliberately: this decision applies to all your colleges. [RETAIN: existing Recommenders & FERPA screenshots]

How to know you're fully set up

All of these should be true:

  • ✅ Your Scoir profile's Common App panel shows Connected with your Common App ID
  • ✅ Your Common App FERPA shows as complete
  • ✅ Your Common App college list appears in Scoir (syncing is near real time — this should happen within minutes of finishing the steps above)

When all three check out, you're done: your applications will stay in sync, and your counselor can send your documents. (If you added a college in Scoir before connecting and it shows as queued, it releases automatically once the steps above are complete.)

After you're connected

  • Safe to change: your email address or name, in either system — the connection is keyed to your Common App ID, not your profile details.
  • Manage your Common App colleges in Common App, and let Scoir follow. Selecting a round/decision plan marks a college as Applying in Scoir; submitting marks it Applied; removing a college in Common App removes the plan in Scoir. If you decide not to apply somewhere, remove it in Common App rather than changing it in Scoir.
  • Don't change your high school in Common App after connecting — it can disrupt your counselor's form and recommendation submissions. If you already did, see Troubleshooting Common App Account Linking for the quick fix.

Something not working?

If you can't find the connect option, hit an error, connected the wrong account, or your colleges aren't appearing in Scoir — see Troubleshooting Common App Account Linking. Most connection problems have a quick fix, and that article covers all the known ones.

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