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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be an amazingly wonderful thing if there was no common app.

Some of you seem to think that no common app means we're back to paper apps...I mean....no, no one is saying that.

If you have to apply to each school's website, and not just click a checkmark to add a school, I am fine with a kid applying to 30 schools. Because-- that will not happen. And if they DO want to put in that effort, more power to them.

We make it too easy in the name of EQUITY but the common app really benefits the colleges and the industry surrounding admissions.

Eliminating the common app would help legitimately hard working applicants. But we can never do that, because of those who say "but that's haaaaaard." (And it's not any kids saying that, it's those with an agenda.)  "If you can apply to lots of different schools with different apps, that's just your PRIVILEGE!"
Same people who claim ignorance about the existence of Khan Academy, public libraries, etc.[/quote]

Making it harder makes it better?

Multiple websites instead of one is better?

More expensive for colleges and kids is better?

On what planet?

And BTW the common app has nothing to do with equity, or your persecution complex.  It's simply leveraging technology and avoiding redundancy of effort - engineering 101.  Also colleges can - AND DO - add more essays and information if they choose, without needing a staff of web developers of their own.[/quote]

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