-"Initiated" in a term used by our SIS to show that an item has been added to your to do list. It means the item has not been completed yet.
-Mid-year reports come out whenever your first semester or second trimester is over. The timing is different from one high school to the next. SIS can't discern whether your school will have them before or after Early Action decisions are released. The item is there for everyone. If you are an Early Action applicant who just has the mid-year report on the check list, don't do anything more. You're done!
-Below the chart where you list other schools attended, the Common App had one question asking if you are sending transcripts from all of those schools. Ideally, you'd be able to select yes or no for each school. Since you can't, that question doesn't really help us. SIS is going to ask for transcripts from every school you list as having attended. If you want that transcript taken off your to-do list, you can email about it. Put "Checklist Adjustment Request" in your subject line with your name. Be sure to include your date of birth day high school in your email. Do not include your Social Security Number.
-Once your application is complete and it moves to the "ready to read" mode, you'll see a box pop up at the bottom of the status screen. "View decision" will appear in the box. It doesn't mean your decision is ready. That's just something that's built into the computer system. If you hit "view decision", you'll just see a note about decisions not being ready at this point. When decisions are ready, we will release them. I promise! We are always excited to get to notification day!
-If you ever forget your SIS password or want to change it, you can follow the steps in that first email you got to generate a new password.
Do you have questions about your SIS status page?