<li>Cabrini College ¶</li>
<li>Cedar Crest College ¶</li>
<li>College of New Rochelle (NY)</li>
<li>Columbia College Chicago (IL)</li>
<li>Daemen College (NY)</li>
<li>Dowling College (NY)</li>
<li>Drake University (IA)</li>
<li>Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (MA)</li>
<li>Hope College (MI)
<li>*Keene State College (NH)</li>
<li>King’s College ¶</li>
<li>Lake Erie College (OH)</li>
<li>Long Island University (NY)</li>
<li>Marymount Manhattan College (NY)</li>
<li>Maryville College (TN)</li>
<li>Maryville University (MO)</li>
<li>Menlo College (CA)</li>
<li>Mercyhurst College ¶</li>
<li>Mount St. Mary’s College (CA)</li>
<li>New York Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Newbury College (MA)</li>
<li>Niagara University (NY)</li>
<li>Ohio Northern University</li>
<li>Oklahoma City University</li>
<li>Pacific Lutheran University (WA)</li>
<li>Pepperdine University (CA)</li>
<li>Philadelphia University ¶</li>
<li>*Plymouth State University (NH)</li>
<li>Polytechnic Institute of NYU</li>
<li>Ringling College of Art & Design (FL)</li>
<li>Rosemont College ¶</li>
<li>St. Bonaventure University (NY)</li>
<li>St. Catherine University (MN)</li>
<li>St. Edward’s University (TX)</li>
<li>Saint Francis University ¶</li>
<li>Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota</li>
<li>St. Thomas Aquinas College (NY)</li>
<li>Seattle Pacific University (WA)</li>
<li>Stevenson University (MD)</li>
<li>*SUNY Buffalo State College</li>
<li>*SUNY College at Brockport</li>
<li>*SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry</li>
<li>*SUNY Plattsburgh</li>
<li>*SUNY Purchase College</li>
<li>University of Great Falls (MT)</li>
<li>*University of Massachusetts Dartmouth</li>
<li>*University of Massachusetts Lowell</li>
<li>*University of Rhode Island</li>
<li>Virginia Wesleyan College</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>The fact that the Common App now has 35 public-college members (and that’s overall and not on its new-member list) is actually a pretty big deal. Although founded in 1975, until the beginning of the current decade there were no public institutions on the Common App roster. One reason for this omission is that the Common App requires all participating institutions to use “holistic” means to evaluate candidates. In other words, colleges must evaluate applicants on the basis of both objective and subjective factors. They can’t consider only grades and test scores and, instead, must require at least one essay and one teacher evaluation.</p>
<p>So the insistence on this holistic approach will automatically rule out the public institutions that do not assess their applicants holistically.</p>
<p>true but with the exception of Rhode Island and SUNY-Purchase most of the public universities added this year to the common application are not very well known</p>
<p>Well the point I should have made is that overall, the list of public schools on the common app are not really among the top public universities in the country.</p>
<p>You’ll see some very selective public schools on this roster … e.g., University of Virginia, College of William and Mary, SUNY Binghamton, Miami of Ohio, & New College of Florida.</p>
<p>I believe the Universal College App has more publics (and is intended to be usable by them, too) but it is currently shut down for annual maintenance, so I can’t confirm.</p>
<p>The Universal Application does not require that colleges practice holistic admission … probably an intentional decision designed to outpace the Common App when it comes to public-college membership.</p>