WHAT IS THE COMMON APPLICATION?
The Common Application is a not-for-profit organization that serves students and member institutions by providing an admission application – online and in print – that students may submit to any of our 415 members.
Common Application Online Student Demo
WHY USE IT?
Once completed online the Application for Undergraduate Admission can be sent to any number of participating colleges. The same is true of the School Report, Midyear Report, Final Report and Teacher Evaluation forms. This allows you to spend less time on the busywork of applying for admission, and more time on what’s really important: college research, visits, essay writing, and senior year coursework.
IS IT TREATEDFAIRLY?
YES! The member colleges and universities have worked together over the past 35 years to develop the application. All members fully support its use, and all give equal consideration to the Common Application and the college’s own form. Many members use the Common Application as their only undergraduate admission application.
WHAT IS THE COMMON APP ONLINE SCHOOL FORMS SYSTEM?
After creating an account on the Common App Online, you can access a ‘School Forms’ section of the Common App where teachers and counselors can be identified. By adding a teacher or counselor to the list of school officials, an email is triggered to the teacher or counselor with information about how to log into the Online School Forms system. Once you have completed this step, you should then come to the Guidance Office to request your transcript from Ms. Ross. Your counselor will then logon to upload your Secondary School Report AND transcript. Students are then able to track the progress of your various teachers and counselors via a screen within the Common App Online.
HOW DO I GET HELP?
If you are experiencing technical difficulties with the Common App Online, if you need to request your username or password, or if you have a general question about the Common Application (including access to our numerous FAQs), please submit a request to the online Support Center. All email you receive from technical support will be sent from appsupport@commonapp.net. Please be sure to add this email address to your address book and/or safe list to prevent the messages from being blocked as “SPAM.” This is particularly important for AOL users. Please click here to access the Application Support Center. Please do NOT submit support requests on behalf of a school official; the school official should submit those directly in order to avoid confusion and speed the resolution of problems.
