Completing the Common Application
Colleges that subscribe to the Common Application are on the rise…again. So next year, expect the most competitive college admissions class ever with more college applications than ever before! Only we know that this isn’t really the case. Next year’s admissions class will not be significantly more competitive than the current one. That is pure myth.
According to a piece in “Inside Higher Ed” entitled “Common Application Continues Growth,” “The membership of the Common Application is about to grow by 46 colleges, to a total of 460. While the Common Application was founded 35 years ago, half of its membership has joined in the last decade. And while the program was once associated with small liberal arts colleges, it has expanded in recent years. This year’s additions include two flagship public universities — the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Kentucky — on top of 10 other flagships added in the past few years. Public institutions now make up 12 percent of the colleges in the program — a record high. Another notable addition this year is Howard University, the fifth historically black college to participate.”
Here is the full list of universities that have just joined the Common Application:
Caldwell College (NJ)
Carroll University (WI)
Castleton State College
Centenary College
Christian Brothers University
Christopher Newport University
Cogswell Polytechnical College
DeSales University
Drury University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Flagler College
Franklin College Switzerland
Goshen College
Howard University
John Cabot University
John F. Kennedy University
Lipscomb University
Long Island University Brooklyn Campus
Lyndon State College
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Rhode Island College
Rockhurst University
Saint Leo University
Saint Martin’s University
Salisbury University
Samford University
Seton Hill University
Sierra Nevada College
St. Joseph’s College – Brooklyn Campus
St. Joseph’s College – Long Island Campus
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
SUNY College at Old Westbury
SUNY Institute of Technology
The American University of Paris
The College of Saint Rose
Towson University
University of Evansville
University of Hartford
University of Kentucky
University of Michigan – Flint
University of New Orleans
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Southern California
University of St Andrews
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Wartburg College
Wheeling Jesuit University
Check out our related blog posts: The Common Application’s Discipline Question and Truncated Essays.
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