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The fact that the Common App now has 35 public-college members (and that's overall and not on its new-member list) is actually a pretty big deal. Although founded in 1975, until the beginning of the current decade there were no public institutions on the Common App roster. One reason for this omission is that the Common App requires all participating institutions to use "holistic" means to evaluate candidates. In other words, colleges must evaluate applicants on the basis of both objective and subjective factors. They can't consider only grades and test scores and, instead, must require at least one essay and one teacher evaluation.
So the insistence on this holistic approach will automatically rule out the public institutions that do not assess their applicants holistically.
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