Which Top Colleges Don't Use The Common Application?

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<p>I noticed that most (e.g. Harvard and Princeton) do, albeit with their own supplements, but MIT - and some others, as well, don't.</p>

<p>Which of the top 20-30 colleges only accept their own separate applications?</p>

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<p>I know that Columbia is one of them</p>

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<p>You can just print out or scan through the member colleges on the Common App website. Stanford does not use common app.</p>

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<p>^Stanford DOES use the Common App</p>

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<p>Columbia, UC Berkeley, most public schools.</p>

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<p>the university of chicago</p>

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<p>University of Southern California (USC) doesn’t use the Common App. Their application is pretty confusing (in my opinion).</p>

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<p>The University of Chicago DOES use the Common Application. The supplement still has the quirky essays that Chicago is famous for. </p>

<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Members.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Members.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Georgetown doesn’t.</p>

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<p>All the UC schools, UMich, and some others i think.</p>

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<p>All UC schools (including UCLA and Berkeley), MIT, Columbia, Oxford, UMich, Georgia Tech, Georgetown, UIllinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cooper Union, Arizona State University, CUNY honors, and CUNY (Sophie Davis) all do not use the common app.</p>

<p>Caltech, UChicago, Duke, all Ivies except Columbia, Northwestern, UWash, Stanford, NYU, Lehigh, John Hopkins, Boston University, Stonybrook, Amherst, and Carnegie Mellon do.</p>

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<p>^This thread is a year old, so a lot of this information is dated as several colleges will begin accepting the Common App for the class of 2015. I believe Columbia and Michigan will be accepting it starting this year.</p>

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<p>^ Jgraider is correct. As of this fall, Columbia and Michigan will be using the Common App.</p>

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<p>rice and emory use the common app, but purdue and texas a&m don’t.</p>

<p>look at [Common</a> Application - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Application]Common”>Common Application - Wikipedia) or tokenadult’s website.</p>

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<p>@Jersey13 and jgraider
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I HATE the common app!
Do you know of any other colleges that will start using the common app (from what I’ve listed in #12)?</p>

<p>Columbia is going to use the Common App next year
[First-Year</a> Admission | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/firstyear]First-Year”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/firstyear)
and so is UMich:
[‘U</a>’ may switch to Common Application | The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-may-switch-common-application]'U”>'U' may switch to Common Application)</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Application[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Application&lt;/a&gt; verifies it</p>

<p>To add on to the list: tufts, macalester, bowdoin, brandeis, marist, vanderbilt, skidmore, wesleyan, SIT, the Seven Sisters except Radcliffe, etc. use the common app</p>

<p>Rutgers doesn’t use it.</p>

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<p>There was a thread here a few months ago about it. I’ll see if I can find it…</p>

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<p>Found it:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/887985-columbia-michigan-uconn-more-join-common-app.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/887985-columbia-michigan-uconn-more-join-common-app.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;