Students applying to college this year will have an easier time in a few important ways.
This year marks the first year that the Common Application will not by default ask students about their criminal history. Member institutions will still be able to ask students this question if they choose, just as they are able to ask other supplemental questions, but it will no longer be asked and included by default. This is in keeping with the
, which urged schools to consider carefully whether to ask the question and to provide more context for students. One of the smallest but most useful changes is clearer character limits for activity descriptions. Most students have no idea that they have 150 characters to describe each activity, and either end up writing too-short descriptions or getting cut off unexpectedly. They’ve also made re-ordering those activities easier and more prominent.
The Common App has really made an effort to partner with other organizations with similar goals, including Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher initiative, whose outreach campaigns and resources areThere are several other organizations and tools that are either integrated into the site , or linked to or, a bit confusingly, integrated into the site at times and linked to externally at others .
when apply.commonapp.org is so siloed away, so much more central to the process, and provides what looks to students like a complete page for each school.
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