Changing Your School's Common App Integration Status

The BridgeU-Common App integration is available to BridgeU schools. There are a few ways you will know if your school has the integration enabled:

1. Your school will receive an email from your BridgeU in around July to confirm that the integration will be enabled for your school for the upcoming application cycle.
2. When your students set up their Common App account and select your school in the Education section on Common App, they will be prevented from inviting any counsellor or teacher recommenders via Common App. They will receive a message that their school is using BridgeU.
3. When your students log into BridgeU, they can navigate to their 'profile' in the top right corner and view the 'pair your Common App account' button. If they have already paired accounts, they will see their Common App ID (CAID) instead.

If the Common App integration is not enabled for your school, please contact your Customer Success Manager or email hi@bridge-u.com.

As part of the integration, students can link their Common App and BridgeU accounts to allow for easy synchronisation of their application information. Advisors can complete the submission of all supporting documents for their students on BridgeU directly without having to use Common App.

The integration function allows 'opt in' or 'opt out' on a school-wide level. Therefore, you are not able to choose to use the integration on a per-student basis.

The integration provides a seamless experience for BridgeU schools. If you are a BridgeU school with document sending included in your subscription and students who will apply to Common App universities, BridgeU highly recommends using the integration to streamline your workflow. 

Please note: you should expect to complete an entire application cycle without changing your integration status either way. Regardless of whether you have started using Common App system or the BridgeU-Common App integration, switching your school's integration status mid-application cycle may remove progress that has already been completed.

If you have already started using Common App directly and you or your students have completed the actions listed below, we recommend you continue using Common App to avoid reversing your progress:

• Students have already invited their counsellor and teacher recommenders on Common App.
• Counselor or teacher recommenders have already submitted supporting documents on Common App (e.g. school report, counsellor recommendation, teacher recommendation)

If you decide to go ahead and request to enable the BridgeU-Common App integration, please email hi@bridge-u.com and copy your Customer Success Manager using the following email template:

Subject:

Request to enable BridgeU-Common App integration

Body: 

I am an advisor at [school name] and would like to enable the BridgeU-Common App integration for the 2023-2024 application season.

My school's CEEB code is [CEEB code]. I understand that this process may take a few days, and understand that any recommender invites my students have already made or any supporting documents already submitted using the Common App directly may be reversed.

If you have already started using the BridgeU-Common App integration and you or your students have completed the actions listed below, we recommend you continue using the BridgeU-Common App integration to avoid reversing your progress:

• Students have already requested teacher recommendation letters on BridgeU
• Students have already matched and synced their BridgeU and Common App accounts
• Advisors have already submitted supporting documents to Common App universities via BridgeU Document Sending (e.g., school report, counsellor recommendation, teacher recommendation)

If you decide to go ahead and request to disable the BridgeU-Common App integration, please email hi@bridge-u.com and copy your Customer Success Manager using the following email template:

Subject:

Request to disable BridgeU-Common App integration

Body: 

I am an advisor at [school name] and would like to disable the BridgeU-Common App integration and use Common App directly for the 2023-2024 application season.

My school's CEEB code is [CEEB code]. I understand that this process may take a few days, and understand that any progress my students have made matching their BridgeU and Common App accounts or any supporting documents already submitted via BridgeU document sending may be reversed.