Overview

Common App will deliver two different zip folders of documents. One dedicated to application documents and another dedicated to recommender documents. When building the document import tasks, we are assuming you have already ran the application data files into Element451. The document import process is outlined in this help article.

Common App Recommendation Forms Resource

Resources to Build Matching Rules

The documents follow a generic naming pattern, for your matching rules you can follow this pattern:

[commonappid]_<insert document type acronym>_<insert FY or TR>_*.pdf

Example: [commonappid]_ST_FY_*.pdf
Document Type Description Document Type Acronym
Application PDF AP
School Report SR
Homeschool Supplement to the School Report SR
International Supplement to the School Report SR
Transcript ST
Counselor Recommendation CR
Midyear Report MR
Midyear Transcript MT
Optional Report OR
Optional Transcript OT
Final Report FR
Final Transcript FT
Teacher Evaluation TE
Other Evaluation OE
Fee Waiver FW
Early Decision Agreement ED and EDII