Four Things You Must Know About the Common App
What is It? The Common Application (lovingly referred to as the “CommonApp”) is the way most students apply to most colleges today, which is to say, electronically via a website (http://www.commonapp.org). The CommonApp boasts more than 400 prominent colleges in its membership, a number that grows every year: in 2011-2012, for example, 49 new schools will begin to accept applications via the CommonApp. From the student’s perspective, there are two major components to the CommonApp, a generic section that goes to every college in your “My Colleges” list, and a school-specific section that goes only to each individual college, known […]
