The Common Application lets students fill out one application online for all of their member colleges and universities. While this saves some time, students need to be aware that about 2/3 of the member schools require additional information in the form of Supplements.
Yesterday, Scott Anderson, Director of Outreach at the Common Application, spoke about The Common Application for 2011-2012. He began with some interesting statistics from this past year (2010-2011):
- 575,000 unique applicants
- 2.4 million Common Applications filed
- 70% of the applications were from public high schools
- 4.5 is the average number* of applications filed by applicants (* number is low for the northeast where the average is up to 7.7)
Then, Scott went on to talk about enhancements to the application for this coming year:
- There are 49 new participating schools, bringing the total number to 461 colleges and universities. New members include University of Kentucky, UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Southern California. You can see the full list at www.commonapp.org and then click on news.
- The new layout for listing foreign languages will help students’ better capture proficiency levels.
- The “activities” section is reduced from 12 to 10, providing more room to write about each activity. Students will also be able to reorder their activities without redoing the entire section.
- 250-500 words are suggested for the personal statement.
- There is a standard Early Decision (ED) agreement accepted by almost all members.
- Students will be able to review application progress using their smart phones.
Rising seniors, please note that The Common Application will go live for the 2011-2012 school year on August 1st.
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