Back in 1975, administrators from 15 colleges got together and decided to create one application that students could use to apply to any or all of their colleges. This was the birth of “The Common App” which continuously increased in popularity and, as of 2020, is accepted by more than 900 colleges and universities across the United States. Colleges popular with New Jersey students that are new to the Common App this year include Auburn, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Texas Tech, and University of Georgia. Typically, more than one million students a year use the Common App to file more than four million applications.
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The Common App is an online application that asks a series of questions in several categories, including parents’ educational history and current employment, students’ SAT/ACT/AP test scores, senior year courses, high school activities, and intended college major. There is also an essay of 250 to 650 words that is required by the majority of Common App colleges. Students this year have a choice of seven essay topics, one of which states, “Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you’ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.” So the topic options are truly limitless!
On the “dashboard” of the Common App, students list all of the colleges to which they want to apply. Most colleges have some additional questions, and some even have supplemental essays (although they are usually only looking for 100 to 250 words). Once all of the questions are answered and essays are completed, students pay the application fee for each college online and press “submit.” Then the waiting game begins!
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The good news for New Jersey students who want to attend college in state is that all Garden State colleges and universities, with four exceptions, accept the Common App. The exceptions are Rutgers, Montclair State, and Thomas Edison State universities and Berkeley College. That leaves 22 schools in New Jersey alone that can be applied to with just one application.
Additionally, many of the most competitive universities accept the Common App, including all eight Ivy League schools (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale), as well as Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, and Vanderbilt.
The newest version of the Common App will “go live” on Aug. 1, however students can set up an account and start filling in their information now as most of it will roll over when the latest version is released mid-summer.
Susan Alaimo is the founder and director of SAT Smart. For the past 25 years, SAT Smart’s Ivy League educated instructors have prepared students for the PSAT/SAT/ACT exams with preparation courses and private tutoring throughout Central Jersey. SAT Smart also offers private tutoring for subject tests, AP courses, and all high school subjects. Visit www.SATsmart.com, or call 908-369-5362.
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