Pros and Cons of Common App

I want to reinforce that it is much more straight forward to use the common app for your child’s school to upload transcripts, LORs, and also for test scores. Your child will need to be on top of those things for each individual application if they don’t use the common app. Hounding teachers and counselors is not a great when you are counting them to say nice things about you ; )

And frankly, it’s your kids doing the applying, not you, and they should be the ones deciding which application format makes sense for them.

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