Columbia, Michigan, UConn and More Join Common App

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<p>From the New York Times' "The Choice" today: Columbia</a>, Michigan and Connecticut Among 25 Colleges to Add Common Application - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com</p>

<p>A new crop of 25 institutions have become Common App colleges, including Columbia University ... the last of the Ivy League institutions to join.</p>

<p>DePaul, St. John's (in MD and NM), Michigan, and UConn are among colleges commonly mentioned on College Confidential that made the new roster.</p>

<p>Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, is the first international Common App member. </p>

<p>I love watching this list expand. Now, if they could only do away with those nasty supplements with essays ... ;)</p>

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<p>Of course Columbia decides to switch over to the Common App they year after I applied.</p>

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<p>But UCONN switches to it the year I apply. So yay for me and the teachers doing my recommendations.</p>

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<p>Great, didn’t apply to UMICH and Columbia because they did not have Commapp, and now they do… (For int’l is extremely unhandy to apply on different systems, same reason I didnt apply to UCLA, USC etc etc)</p>

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<p>I’m predicting UMich’s acceptance rate to drop by 10% at least</p>

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<p>@sillyaardvark - I feel you, but about UConn instead of Columbia.</p>

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<p>YES COLUMBIA!!! Perfect timing for me!!</p>

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<p>I kinda liked Columbia’s application…It was simpler than the common app, for me.</p>

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<p>…I actually did like the Columbia application too.</p>

<p>But thanks Columbia and UMich for switching after I had to deal with ur app…especially Umich, god that was not fun.</p>

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<p>i am kind of excited because i did not want to fill out Michigan’s app, but at the same time now i have a decreased chance of getting in because of the more applicants there will be. I would rather have had to fill out a separate app and have a slightly better chance of acceptance then the other way around.</p>

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<p>Forgive me for asking this, I know many of this will find it dumb. But what are the advantages of the common app? I know its an easier application, but other than that, what are the advantages? Does this translate to more applications to the schools who accept them?</p>

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<p>That’s just great… </p>

<p>Michigan’s app was long and grueling. </p>

<p>The acceptance rate for Michigan is gonna drop like a rock now.</p>

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<p>Well…those are a couple less applications that I have to fill out</p>

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<p>OKAY COLUMBIA. WAIT A YEAR AFTER IT’S NECESSARY. -___-</p>

<p>But I kind of liked Columbia’s app, just because I felt it asked more things where I was able to show my personality. Certainly more than the Common App did, but that could be added in the form of a CA supplement for Columbia. But it was an inconvenience to use multiple applications. The Common App is every high school senior’s best friend.</p>

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<p>Statistics show that colleges get their massive app boosts in their SECOND year on the commonapp, so you 2011’ers should be okay. I don’t really have statistics but I remember reading this somewhere when discussing UChi’s massive increase.</p>

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<p>Columbia and UMich were the only two apps my son filled out–he liked them because of the kinds of questions they asked. (Of course that’s not why he chose them, but he did feel they showcased his strengths.)</p>

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<p>I probably would have finished my UMich app if they had been on the ComApp. Depending on how many additional essays were required. I did halfway finish both of the essays, I think. So, maybe, maybe not.</p>

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<p>Of course; the Common Application does wonders for increasing a university’s selectivity.</p>

<p>Conspicuously, I find it surprising that MIT has yet to follow the Common Application herd.</p>

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<p>The year after a college switches to common app, there’s normally no change, but there is normally an increase two years after the college joins. This is what happened with Chicago when combined with a new marketing campaign and dean of admissions.</p>

<p>I would’ve applied to Columbia had they done common app this past year. I guess it’s a good thing they didn’t, though, because I couldn’t have handled another application.</p>

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<p>noooo. I always loved how Columbia was so individual it didn’t use the Common App. I hate the Common App questions…
Who are you?
Why do you want to come to our university?
talk about an experience that has changed you (UCH) ERRR, Columbia noooo.</p>