Matching Common App and Cialfo
Once you inform Ms. Liang & Ms. Wong of your personal email, you will soon be getting a registration email from Cialfo which is the platform that we will be using to send through your documents to US colleges.
IMPORTANT:
1) In your profile, you must put down your legal name (ie. what appears on your passport), your date of birth, your contact number, your email address (strongly recommend that you use the same one for Common App) and your home address. These are the required fields in order for Cialfo to link up with your Common App.
We encourage you to put down your test scores as well.
2) You should then sign up for a Common App account so that you can link it to your Cialfo account. Remember, Common App is your actual application and Cialfo is for document sending. You need both. There will be a red button on your Cialfo profile to prompt you to link. This is in the presentation as well.
3) When you are putting together your college list, you need to make sure you indicate the round that you are applying for (ie. ED/EA or RD) on Cialfo. You also need to make sure that the list on Cialfo matches the one on Common App as you may be adding or deleting.
4) You MUST waive "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act" (FERPA).
Waiving your right lets colleges know that you do NOT intend to read your recommendations, which helps reassure colleges that the recommendation letters are candid and truthful.
We cannot submit a letter for you unless you waive your rights.
IMPORTANT:
1) In your profile, you must put down your legal name (ie. what appears on your passport), your date of birth, your contact number, your email address (strongly recommend that you use the same one for Common App) and your home address. These are the required fields in order for Cialfo to link up with your Common App.
We encourage you to put down your test scores as well.
2) You should then sign up for a Common App account so that you can link it to your Cialfo account. Remember, Common App is your actual application and Cialfo is for document sending. You need both. There will be a red button on your Cialfo profile to prompt you to link. This is in the presentation as well.
3) When you are putting together your college list, you need to make sure you indicate the round that you are applying for (ie. ED/EA or RD) on Cialfo. You also need to make sure that the list on Cialfo matches the one on Common App as you may be adding or deleting.
4) You MUST waive "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act" (FERPA).
Waiving your right lets colleges know that you do NOT intend to read your recommendations, which helps reassure colleges that the recommendation letters are candid and truthful.
We cannot submit a letter for you unless you waive your rights.
Early Decision/ Early Action (Nov 1 deadline)
ED/EA are for your dream and reach schools.
1) Transcript requests in by May 1st 2) Questionnaires for recommendation letters in by May 1st 3) Personal Statements 1st Draft to be in by May 1st. |
Regular Decision (Jan 1 deadline)
Regular Decision students please submit: 1) Transcript requests by May 1st 2) Questionnaires for recommendation letters by May 1st 3) Personal Statements 1st Draft to be submitted by May 1st |
UC System (Nov 30th deadline)
1) Transcript Requests by May 1st 2) Personal Statement submitted by May 1st 3) UCs don't require a recommendation letter |
*We do not send official predicted grades on letterheads. Students must come into our further studies office to write down their own PGs in their notebooks. PGs are usually available by Sept 30th. PGs are final once they're set. That's our school policy.
*Students and parents don't get to see confidential recommendation letters from counselors or from teachers. That's the meaning of the word confidential and this is an educational industry standard. So please don't ask.
*We don't deal with outside educational consultants. If you choose to do so on your own, that is fine. We interface solely with parents, students, and college admissions directly.
*Students and parents don't get to see confidential recommendation letters from counselors or from teachers. That's the meaning of the word confidential and this is an educational industry standard. So please don't ask.
*We don't deal with outside educational consultants. If you choose to do so on your own, that is fine. We interface solely with parents, students, and college admissions directly.
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