2007 Common App Now Online

The 2006-2007 Common Application is now online. Applicants can use it to submit printed or online applications to 299 different U.S. colleges and universities.

The Common App has created five new forms to support specific application needs. These include a Common Early Decision Agreement, an Arts Supplement, an Athletic Supplement, and an International Supplement to the Secondary School Report.

Another change to this year's Common App is the addition of a question about disciplinary history to the application form.

23 colleges and universities joined the Common Application this year. They include:

The California Institute of Technology
Catholic University
Creighton University
Drexel University
Geneseo College (SUNY's honors college)
The University of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
The University of Pennsylvania
Seton Hall University

Many other outstanding educational institutions, including 6 of the 8 Ivy League schools, accept the Common Application. (Brown and Columbia are the two Ivies that do not.)

Many of these schools require their own, supplemental application form in addition to the Common App. Make sure that you understand what the schools you are targeting expect, and that you complete and submit all of the necessary application forms, essays, recommendation letters, and school reports.

For more information, go to the Common Application website: www.commonapp.org.