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Editor's Notes

• #9: Welcome to Common App Ready. Students should navigate to commonapp.org, click on Apply Now to create a new account or to Sign In to an existing account.
• #10: Applicants can navigate to the College Search tab Encourage students to look beyond the schools they know. Nationally, more than half of students attend college less than 100 miles from home and 75% are within 250 miles of home for college. You know your students and you have a feel for the trends in your student body. Encourage students to look outside their hometown, home state, or home region. Broaden their perspective on colleges. Familiarize students with the different range of colleges and universities that are out there...NCAA Division I, II and III, large publics, small privates and everything in between.
• #11: You can see here that you have many options when searching for Common App colleges and universities, and I’ll briefly review each. If you already know the name of a college that you’d like to add to your My Colleges list, you can type that name directly into the first field you see here. When entering a college name, for best results, use part of the college name. Similarly, if you’d like to enter a particular city, use the same field. If you’d like to broaden your search to search a particular state or country, you can use these two fields. Let’s say a student wants to search for schools within or away from a certain zip code. An applicant can easily type a zip code into the zip code field, then indicate how close to or far away from that zip code they’d like to search. An applicant also has the option to search by application terms, the type of applicant that they are, or by specific deadlines. At any time during a search, you can clear any criteria that you have entered by using this ‘clear’ link. And when ready to perform the search, just click on “Search.”
• #12: Now that a search has been run, you can view the results. The first 10 schools are displayed on the first page, but you’ll see that there is a “2” at the bottom of the page to let the applicant know that I there are more results on the next page. Click on the “2” to go to the next page of results. There are a couple of icons at the top of the search results page that can be helpful to you. These icons indicate that you can request more information and also visit school-specific websites to learn more about that particular school. There are four column headers that are always displayed on your search results page. The first will display the School Name, then the location of that school, along with the country and finally the school type. All of these categories can be sorted alphabetically by clicking on the arrows.
• #13: Check the box beside the college name, then click the "add” button located at the bottom right of the page. To select all colleges from your result list, click the box beside the college name in the top left area of the grey menu bar.
• #14: When you’ve successfully added a school or multiple schools to your list, you’ll receive the confirmation message that you see here. And from here an applicant can either return to my results list to research more schools, or can go straight to the Dashboard.
• #15: Remember that adding a college or university to your list of schools also allows that institution to reach out to you via email if you opted in to receive those emails when registering for a Common App account.
• #16: On the My Colleges tab, applicants can view specific information about each college and university.
• #17: If an applicant is looking for a complete list of colleges and their requirements, a list can be found on the college search tab.
• #18: A list of all Common Application colleges and universities will open in a new window. Applicants can also download a PDF of the Application Requirements grid for their reference.
• #19: Information about the Applicant Solutions Center Remember, we’re always ready to help you. If you experience a problem or have a question, let us know by going to the Applicant Help Center and searching the FAQs or clicking the Ask a Question tab. It’s probably a good idea to add ‘appsupport@commonap.org’ to your address book or contact list. We know you’ll have questions, and we are here to answer them. Help us make sure our responses don’t end up in your Spam or Junk folder by adding our support email address to your contact list.