Element451Integrations Guide

Documents

Updated Article

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 (opens in a new tab).

Common App Recommendation Forms Resource (opens in a new tab)

Resources to Build Matching Rules#

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

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

Example: [commonappid]_ST_FY_*.pdf
Document Type DescriptionDocument Type Acronym
Application PDFAP
School ReportSR
Homeschool Supplement to the School ReportSR
International Supplement to the School ReportSR
TranscriptST
Counselor RecommendationCR
Midyear ReportMR
Midyear TranscriptMT
Optional ReportOR
Optional TranscriptOT
Final ReportFR
Final TranscriptFT
Teacher EvaluationTE
Other EvaluationOE
Fee WaiverFW
Early Decision AgreementED and EDII