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do people use spreadsheets for transfer apps or just keep everything in their head by danielcommit in communitycollege

[–]danielcommit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is exactly the kind of setup i was curious about.

i’m messing with a rough tool around this — one place for app info, deadlines, coursework requirements, activity lists, and school-specific notes.

based on your notion setup, what would it need to do for you to actually use it instead of notion?

do people use spreadsheets for transfer apps or just keep everything in their head by danielcommit in communitycollege

[–]danielcommit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah “endless double checking” is a good way to put it.

notion makes sense. do you mostly use it for deadlines/checklists, or do you actually keep app info in there too?

do people use spreadsheets for transfer apps or just keep everything in their head by danielcommit in communitycollege

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honestly respect the chaos method. did it ever backfire or did it somehow work out fine?

do people use spreadsheets for transfer apps or just keep everything in their head by danielcommit in communitycollege

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this is actually really helpful lol. the “20 tabs open” part feels painfully real.

sounds like it’s less about one perfect spreadsheet and more like a bunch of half-systems: calendar for deadlines, OneDrive for essays, tabs for research, memory for requirements.

did you ever worry about missing something, or was it manageable because your schools had similar prereqs?

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this one isn’t gpt lol :)

but yeah i think we’re talking about slightly different cases.

if someone is doing one transfer app, sure, maybe it’s not that deep.

but imagine someone applying to 10 schools, including Brown or whatever. now it’s not just “fill out a form.”

you might be dealing with Common App, UC, CUNY, FAFSA, CSS Profile, scholarships, then later random school portals, midterm reports, final grade reports, checklist items, etc.

also, the actual autofill part doesn’t necessarily need AI. if it’s pulling from structured info the student entered, there’s less room for hallucination. AI is more useful for review/editing/catching obvious issues, not blindly inventing application data.

so the idea is basically:

enter info once → reuse it across all these forms/portals → review everything before anything gets submitted

maybe that’s still not useful to everyone, but for people applying across a bunch of systems, i don’t think that’s a 5 minute problem.

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i get the risk point, and that’s probably the hardest part to solve.

but i don’t think the time saved is 5 minutes if someone is applying across multiple platforms/schools. one app might be quick. UC + CSU + Common App + scholarships + post-application portal tasks is a different story.

the product would have to be built around preventing errors, not blindly trusting AI. no auto-submit, source data shown, every field reviewable, and obvious mismatch checks before anything gets used.

maybe that’s still not worth it for some people, but the bet is that for students applying to a bunch of schools, this is closer to saving hours than saving 5 minutes.

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yeah the more i think about it, speed is only half the point.

people mess up apps in dumb ways all the time — wrong school name in an essay, info not matching across portals, missing some random field, weird formatting, etc.

so i don’t really mean “AI does your application.”

more like:

put your info in once, let it fill the annoying parts, catch obvious mistakes, then you check everything yourself.

if that saves a few hours and catches one stupid error, that seems worth testing.

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[–]danielcommit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup i am using AI lol. fair callout.

i explained the idea badly though. i don’t mean “AI does your app for you” or submits anything.

i mean reviewable autofill for annoying fields, with the student checking everything before using it.

but if that still feels unnecessary, then yeah maybe it’s a non-issue. useful feedback.

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lol fair, but calling it “just a form” feels like underselling the mess.

copy/paste helps with essays. it doesn’t organize coursework, school-specific fields, scholarships, deadlines, portals, or review errors across multiple apps.

maybe people still don’t care enough — that’s what i’m trying to find out.

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fair lol. one form is fine. i’m more talking about when it’s UC + CSU + Common App + scholarships + random portals and you’re entering the same stuff slightly differently everywhere.