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Application Manager Settings allow educators to set document behavior for Common App and Non-Common App applications. They are set at the high school level and can be modified by District accounts (by selecting a specific school) or school level accounts with Account Manager access. School based educators without Account Manager access will be able to see the settings, but not adjust them.
You can reach Application Manager Settings by navigation to Application Manager from your top navigation menu - Applications Manager -> Applications. Once at the Application Manager, you will see a gear icon in the upper right hand side of the page. Make sure to hit Save in order to apply your settings.
Common App Applications
This section of the settings will allow you to modify document behavior for applications where students have identified they are applying through Common App and have synced their accounts. The behavior for documents can be adjusted across the following 3 areas and defaults to being manually managed for all:
Optional Counselor Recommendation - Overgrad recommends automatically adding optional counselor recommendations if your school plans to write and submit counselor recommendations for students. Keep in mind not all schools may utilize the Optional Counselor Recommendation in their admission consideration.
Optional Teacher Evaluations - Overgrad recommends leaving this setting as a manual addition so as to minimize unnecessary request of letters from teachers and allow them the capacity to write stronger letters.
Assigning Teacher Evaluations to Applications - Overgrad recommends automatically assigning teacher evaluations as most students require and request only one letter of recommendation. Should they request additional letters and need to choose from one of them, students can reassign the letter.
Non-Common App Applications
This section of the settings will allow you to modify document behavior for applications where students have identified they are applying through any non-Common App means (university websites or paper applications). The default behavior is to require students to manually attach all documents and you may adjust that for individual document types as seen below:
Transcript and School Profile- These documents require no additional action for your students. If you check off these boxes, they will automatically be attached for all applications. Overgrad recommends automatically attaching transcripts and school profiles.
All other documents - All remaining document types (Counselor Rec, Teacher evaluations, Fee Waiver, etc.) require students to either assign (in the case of evaluations) or request at least once (in the case of reports and fee waivers) in order for those documents to automatically be attached or assigned for the remaining non-Common App applications. Overgrad recommends automatically attaching Counselor Recommendation, Academic/Teacher evaluations, and Non-Common App fee waiver. However, always consider context of the document requirements of the schools your students most often apply to.