<p>Should you use the common app whenever you can? about 8 of 11 schools on my list take it... I want to know if there are any disadvantages.</p>
<p>I would use a common app. only on safety schools/ schools you are not that interested in. Using the school's application not only shows interest, but some admission officers are biased against the common app without admiting it, because the admission officers can not find out that much about through the common app and it is rather impersonal. So my suggestion is use the school's official application every chance you get and only use the common app. if you can't afford to contact schools or you don't have the time to fill out several applications.</p>
<p>First of all, are there that many schools that still have there own app and accept common app? Becuase I thought they just had supplements now....</p>
<p>Well, the adcoms do have to sign a contract saying they will show no bias towards the school's app or the common app. Does this happen? I don't know and nobody here knows either.</p>
<p>Most schools actually prefer that you use the common app. The online format makes it easier for them to file away or something. And many schools only accept the common app. Use it; it's only there to help you.</p>
<p>I say use the common app, it was def helpful when I did it and 11 out of 12 of the colleges accepted. Plus, school's agree to show no bias as stated in one of the common app policies of equal opportunity or something like that, so def use it, it saved me loads of time on those essays.</p>
<p>I planning on using it as often as I can. Its makes much simpler</p>
<p>Although schools sign a contract saying that they'll be fair, they are biased, unintentionaly. Even Michelle Hernandez, former assistant directer of admissions at Dartmouth admits it. In her book "A is for Admission" she said, "...any college that accepts the common application will tell you it treats the common application exactly as it would its own application. In theory, this is true, but in practice, almost every admission officer I met complained incessantly about the common application."</p>
<p>Like I mentioned earlier, use the schools official application for the schools you really wish to attend, so you don't seem lazy, show interest in attending, and so the adcoms can get a better feel of who you are. Use the common app for the schools lower on your list. One big advantage though, using the common up makes the college process so much easier for the applicant and less stressful.</p>
<p>I would say DONT use it on the school that you really want to get into, but the others def. use it. Especially since you are applying to so many school, it will cut down the workload.</p>
<p>Any idea when it's gonna be available?</p>
<p>I thought today, July 1st, was the date, but I could be way off.</p>
<p>me too... I'm pretty obsesses with starting all this, but it's still not there... I hope it's soon.</p>
<p>wow, i must say, you are def tackling the whole application process lightyears before I did, good luck w/ everything :)</p>
<p>Use the commonapp. It's the most convenient for all parties involved. It'll save you more time that can spend revising your essays or winning more awards. I used the common app and I was more than pleased with the colleges I got into (which most of the schools I applied to used the commonapp).</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm sure the admissions officers should put on their admissions websites:
things considered: class rank, SAT, whether or not used the commonapp...
THAT IS A JOKE</p>
<p>If anyone else tells you admissions officers hate the commonapp, tell them to graduate HS first before they give you advice about college. I mean, why not hand-write all your apps? That'll definitely show your enthusiasm for College XYZ!!! Use the commonapp; you'll thank yourself later.</p>
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<p>Um...yeah. Tons</p>
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<p>Guess what. Dartmouth only takes the common app and a lot of stuff in the admissions process has changed since the book was originally written.</p>
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<p>I really don't think that this is true as many schools have supplements to use if you are using the common app so that they can get a more fuller picture of the applicant. In addition more schools that use to give a choice between their own app and the common app are now making the shift to the common app/supplements. After all has been said and done, it is not what kind of app you use it is about what is in the application. My D used the common app on every school she applied to and was accepted to all of them.</p>
<p>I asked admissions officers (at Penn) they really dont care.</p>
<p>If I use a school's original app rather than the Common App (if the school accepts both) it will be because I feel like I can better express myself on the school's orignal app--more room for ECs, more essay questions I like, whatever.</p>
<p>Otherwise, screw it. I'm doing Common App.</p>
<p>Well you can pick whatever topic you want on the Common App anyway</p>
<p>Yay it's out! I think I'm going to be using common app for everything. I kind of like the fact that they don't have as many spaces for ec's because now I don't feel obligated to put fillers. </p>
<p>Also, I am also willing to do each app separately. It is asking my teachers to fill out 11 different forms that I don't like. I feel like filling out the personal info and counselor stuff is also tedious.</p>