Common App Schools That Don't Require Additional Essays

Low effort, high quality schools to consider for your list

commonapplogo By now, most of you are quite familiar with the Common Application ("Common App"). And most of you that are applying to competitive institutions are painfully aware that there are often extra essay or short answer prompts to complete.

The good news is that this isn't always the case. Recently we introduced a new feature in College Kickstart that identifies Common App schools that don't require additional essay or short answer prompts.

Put another way, these are schools that you can apply to easily once you've completed the core common app. It's another useful way to narrow down your list choices, or to consider new ones that may be a good fit and don't require extra effort to submit.

Enjoy!

Note: the list isn't exhaustive—it's meant to cover the more competitive 4 year institutions in the nation.

The List

School	School
Allegheny College	Bard College
Bucknell University	Case Western Reserve University
Centre College	Clark University
Colby College	College of the Atlantic
College of the Holy Cross	College of William and Mary
Colorado State University - Ft. Collins	Connecticut College
Cornell University	DePauw University
Dickinson College	Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall	Gettysburg College
Grinnell College	Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Ithaca College	Kenyon College
Middlebury College	Miami University - Oxford
Millsaps College	Muhlenberg College
Northeastern University	Ohio State University - Columbus
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Rhodes College
St. Lawrence University	Sewanee: The University of the South
Skidmore College	Southwestern University
State University of New York - Binghamton	Trinity College
Union College	University of Delaware
University of Massachusetts - Amherst	University of Miami
University of New Hampshire	University of Puget Sound
University of Rhode Island	University of Tennessee - Knoxville
University of the Pacific	University of Vermont
University of Virginia	Vanderbilt University
Wabash College	Washington and Lee College
Washington University at St. Louis	Wesleyan University
Willamette University	Williams College

24 July 2014

Are Ivy League Schools Overrated?

Posted in Perspectives

Are Ivy League schools overrated? William Deresiewicz, who taught at Yale from 1998 to 2008, sure thinks so:

"I used to think that we needed to create a world where every child had an equal chance to get to the Ivy League. I’ve come to see that what we really need is to create one where you don’t have to go to the Ivy League, or any private college, to get a first-rate education."
William Deresiewicz

Click here to read his article in the The New Republic, entitled "Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League."

27 March 2014

Cornell Offers Admission to 14 Percent of Applicants for the Class of 2018

Posted in Miscellaneous

Cornell announced today that it admitted 6,014 applicants, or 14 percent of the applicant pool for the Class of 2018. A total of 43,041 applications were received this year, up 7.6 percent from the previous year. Of the 6,014 accepted, 1,325 were admitted in December through early decision.

Click here for the news release.

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