<p>I might be missing some key complexity here, but I don’t understand why this is such a problem to track, at least for the schools that accept the Common Application and/or high schools using Naviance. I don’t have the numbers, but have to think that it covers a significant percentage of the applications. </p>
<p>I’m not suggesting that the software could be written in a day, but my car can recognize pedestrians and cyclists and apply the brakes before I hit them, so the software to say that a student can’t send an EA application to Harvard and Yale doesn’t seem especially tough by comparison.</p>