It’s August 1st and yes, the Common Application website is live!
What does that mean to you? If you’re a rising senior, it means that it’s a good time to open up an account with the Common Application and begin inputting the preliminary information so that you can save time later. You can also read the essay prompts get started on a rough draft.
This year, 45 additional colleges decided to join the list of schools who will accept the Common Application. They include everyone from UNC Chapel Hill to USC.
But if you’re waiting for UCLA or Berkeley to to join the Common Application, don’t hold your breath. For large universities it makes more fiscal sense to have their own applications. The Common Application is free for students but not for the schools who use them.
Schools generally don’t mind paying a small fee to use the Common App because it usually increases the number of applicants they receive.
One last piece of advice. The Common App might be “live”, but when you click on the college of your choice, it might not have its supplemental essay questions up yet. For those prompts, you might have to wait a few more weeks.
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York
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Mark Montgomery
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.