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What is Common App?
What is Common App?
The Common App is a free online application used by 900+ colleges and universities in the United States and 20 foreign countries. First-year students can use this online application to make the process of applying to multiple schools faster and easier.
Instead of making you fill out multiple college applications from scratch for each college, the Common App saves all the information that will be the same for every application you submit. For example, once you fill out your demographic data for the Common App, that information gets saved on your profile and appears on all your college applications.
There are still some schools that don’t use the Common App, and instead use their own application portals, such as MIT or Georgetown.
CommonApp allows students to invite 4 different recommender types:
1) Counsellor: completes school forms and sends transcripts, write letter of recommendation if needed
2) Teacher: No school requires more than 2, completes teacher evaluation and writes letter of recommendation if needed
3) Other recommender: OPTIONAL! Could be: your arts teacher outside of school, coach, employer, family member, peer...
4) Advisor: OPTIONAL! Students can invite up to 3 advisors, they do not submit any form, they can view student's completion progress
Once a student invites and assigns a recommender in their application, an email invitation is sent. Recommenders activate their account in Common App's Recommender system.
Account rollover
The CommonApp launches on August 1st every year, but students don't have to wait until then.
You can set up your account anytime. Username and password, your college list, your profile, family, education, testing, activities, writing, courses and grades rollover. But nothing on the My Colleges tab do not roll over.
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