The Common Application
The Common Application is the greatest gift you will ever receive from the colleges (besides an acceptance letter). In the old pre-Common Application days applicants had to complete an entire application for each school to which they applied.
Now, students can complete a single application and send it to as many of the couple hundred participating schools as they desire. While some schools also require you to complete a shorter supplementary form, many do not. This is a win-win situation since colleges enjoy an increased number of applicants while students like you have to fill out less forms.
You can get a Common Application from your counselor or by writing to the NASSP at 1904 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191. A downloadable version will be available in August.
Unfortunately, while the Common Application is accepted by many schools, the majority still require you to use their own applications. Nevertheless, all applications - Common or not - ask the same questions and require the same information.
Colleges accepting the Common Application in 2003-2004: Adelphi University Agnes Scott College Albertson College of Idaho Albion College Albright College Alfred University Allegheny College American University Amherst College Antioch College Arcadia University Assumption College Atlantic, College of the Austin College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Beloit College Bennington College Bentley College Birmingham-Southern College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Bradley University Brandeis University Bryant College Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Butler University California Lutheran University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Centenary College of Louisiana Centre College Chatham College Claremont McKenna College Clark University Coe College Colby College Colby-Sawyer College Colgate University Colorado College Connecticut College Cornell College (Iowa) Dallas, University of Dartmouth College Davidson College Delaware, University of Denison University Denver, University of DePauw University Dickinson College Dominican University of California Drew University Duke University Earlham College Eckerd College Elizabethtown College Elmira College Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Emmanuel College (Massachusetts) Emory University Eugene Lang College Fairfield University Fisk University Florida Southern College Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College Furman University George Fox University George Washington University Gettsyburg College Gonzaga University Goucher College Grinnell College Guilford College Gustavus Adolphus College Hamilton College Hampden-Sydney College Hampshire College Hanover College Hartwick College Harvard College Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hendrix College Hiram College Hobart & William Smith Colleges Hofstra University Hollins University Holy Cross, College of the Hood College Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Juniata College Kalamazoo College Kenyon College Knox College La Salle University La Verne, University of Lafayette College Lake Forest College Lawrence University Le Moyne College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Linfield College Loyola College in Maryland Loyola University New Orleans Luther College Macalester College Maine at Farmington, University of Maine, University of (Orono) Manhattan College Manhattanville College Marietta College Marquette University Mary Washington College Merrimack College McDaniel College Miami University (Ohio) Miami, University of (Florida) Middlebury College Mills College Millsaps College Moravian College Morehouse College Mount Holyoke College Muhlenberg College Nazareth College New England College New Hampshire, University of New York University Northeastern University Oberlin College Occidental College Oglethorpe University Ohio Wesleyan University Pace University Pacific, University of the Pitzer College Pomona College Portland, University of Providence College Puget Sound, University of Randolph-Macon College Randolph-Macon Woman's College Redlands, University of Reed College Regis College (Massachusetts) Regis University (Colorado) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Rice University Richmond, University of Ripon College Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, University of Roger Williams University Rollins College Saint Anselm College St. Benedict, College of & St. John's Univ Saint Joseph's College of Maine Saint Joseph's University St. Lawrence University Saint Leo University Saint Louis University Saint Mary's College of California Saint Michael's College St. Norbert College St. Olaf College Saint Peter's College Saint Vincent College Salem College (North Carolina) Salve Regina University San Francisco, University of Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Scranton, University of Scripps College Seattle University Sewanee (University of the South) Simmons College Skidmore College Smith College Southern Maine, University of Southern Methodist University Southwestern University Spelman College Spring Hill College Stetson University Stonehill College Suffolk University Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Sweet Briar College Syracuse University TCU (Texas Christian University) Transylvania University Trinity College (Connecticut) Trinity University (San Antonio) Tufts University Tulane University Tulsa, University of Union College (New York) Ursinus College Utica College of Syracuse University Valparaiso University Vanderbilt University Vassar College Vermont, University of Wabash College Wagner College Wake Forest University Washington College Washington University in Saint Louis Washington & Jefferson College Washington & Lee University Webster University Wellesley College Wells College Wesleyan University Westminster College (Missouri) Westminster College (Pennsylvania) Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Wheelock College Whitman College Whittier College Widener University Willamette University William & Mary, College of William Jewell College Williams College Wittenberg University Wooster, College of WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Xavier University (Ohio) Yale University
For more information: Learn the strategies that over two dozens actual students used to ace their applications in Chapter 3 of Get Into Any College: Secrets Of Harvard Students.
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