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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter was complaining about using the common app to apply for 8 schools. My husband and I each applied to 6 schools in the early 90s using a typewriter! These kids have it easy!!!!![/quote]

Disagree. I applied to college in those days, and I find the new process harder. The Common App helps with some degree in not having to retype basic info, but the additional questions asked by every college (some that basically recreate the app, not to mention supplemental essays) and requests for additional documentation, all presented in slightly different formats, make it more complicated and easier to mess up. We just realized that DC missed EA at one school because his transcript wasn’t presented in exactly the right way for that school (even though it’s been fine for every other). Add in the Coalition App, and things like the SRAR, it’s very time consuming. [/quote]

Totally agree.  The phrase "Common App" is deceptive for all of the reasons you list.  On the surface, it sounds great - you supposedly enter all your information once and then only have to worry about supplemental essays.  This is not true at all.  Each school has some version of the same questions that you have to enter from scratch, each time.  Residency was just one subject that was asked in different ways by all of the schools DC applied to.  Very tedious and time-consuming.
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Agree about common app NOT being common.  Dd is applying to 5 or 6 schools, each has extra questions on the common app and of course at least one extra essay.[/quote]

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