In the upcoming academic year, the addition of Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Michigan, and 22 others will bring the total number of Common Application participating institutions to 414, reports a New York Times article.
The Common Application saves applicants from writing multiple original essays for each school they apply to. The new Common Application will be released on August 1, 2010.
On Columbia University’s decision to add the Common Application, Columbia Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Jessica Marinaccio, explains that it will “make applying to Columbia more accessible to students from every background….We…hope that the standardized nature of the Common Application will make applying easier, more convenient and less stressful for students and the counselors and teachers who support them.”
Columbia is the last of the Ivy League institutions to being accepting the Common Application.
The 25 colleges adding the Common Application next year are:
- Alaska Pacific University
- Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
- Columbia University
- Concordia University in Portland, Oregon
- DePaul University
- Fontbonne University in St. Louis
- Husson University in Bangor, Maine
- Jacobs University, Bremen in Germany (the first international member)
- Johnson State College in Vermont
- Maritime College (SUNY)
- Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York
- Morrisville State College (State University of New York)
- Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri
- SUNY Potsdam
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of Connecticut
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina, Asheville
- Western New England College
- Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California
- Xavier University of Louisiana
- Yeshiva University
Top-tier schools that have still not joined the Common Application program include MIT, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California.
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