Getting Started on Applications

Getting Started on Applications

Common App, which is used by hundreds of colleges around the country, opens its application July 1 before your senior year. Set up a Common App account. You can begin to fill out the preliminary information in your account before your senior year even starts.

The Common App essay prompts are also released on that day. It’s a good idea for rising seniors to draft their application essays during the summer and then work on them with English teachers in the early fall.