<p>Would a person be at a disadvantage to use the commonapp versus using the school's own application? Thanks.</p>
<p>They really shouldn't be because any college that participates in the common app program agrees to treat any common app fairly and equally to their own, so in reality no, though some disagree saying some members of certain admissions committees look down upon those who don't use the school's application and will give preference to those that do use it. On a lighter note, and speaking personally, I used the common app on 11 of my 12 apps and it proved successful so in reality you should be fine were to use the common app [and plus it's so much easier on the time]</p>
<p>If I'm right, there's a disclaimer on the common app (that all users of the common app must agree to) that says that each college must place absolutely no preference one way or the other. No disadvantage.</p>
<p>Right, most of the Common App is just stats and stuff anyway. The major subjective part of the applications come in the supplements.</p>
<p>Using common app for college that accepts it is not a disadvantage. In fact, some colleges have gone to requiring the common app and ditching their own. The more modern attitude of colleges is that they want the application process to cost them less money/work than years ago and thus now highly favor on-line type of apps over handwritten because they can dump all info into a computer file rather than having someone first input the app info into a computer and the common app process is one of the ways that allows them to easily acheive that goal.</p>
<p>Make sure which essays they want you to write, though. Some colleges that use the CommonApp still want you to write the essays from their specific application.</p>
<p>yeah plundertime.. thats a gr8 point.. and no colleges do not discriminate on teh basis of what applicaiton u used..</p>