Okay so i am living in India and plan to pursue my undergrads in the US
I do not have a counsellor and am planning to do everything by myself from the application to everything
So i havent really understood the concept of the Common Application/
So can someone help me out with what exactly is the Common Application
The Common App is an application which gets sent to all the schools you apply to (if they’re on the Common App - not all schools are, e.g. MIT, UC schools) to save you from having to fill in the same information over and over again, and to reduce the numbers of essays you have to write. However most schools will also have Supplements, which are a few additional questions, the answers to which only get sent to that one particular school. They will have more school-specific questions, such as ‘Why This School’ questions.
Make yourself a Common App account, and essentially do everything it asks you to do. It’s relatively self-explanatory.