{"id":1932,"date":"2017-04-27T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:21:58","slug":"common-app-to-get-an-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/common-app-to-get-an-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Common App To Get An Upgrade, Will Be More User Friendly Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">The Common Application is famously known as \u2018<strong>Common App<\/strong>\u2019, a popular online college application platform has recently announced that it will be upgrading the application and will be introducing a series of enhancements that will make the application user-friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The application that helps more than three million students, counsellors, educators and parents in college applications,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/scholarship-update-the-oxford-and-cambridge-society-of-india-scholarships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>scholarships exploration<\/strong><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">finding financial aid and support, released a statement saying <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany of the changes for next year\u2019s application stem from the feedback we received from the admissions, high school, and CBO counselors on our applications and outreach advisory committees and from the suggestions of the students and counselors who have used our platform.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Some of the key upcoming upgrades(<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Common App)<\/span> are &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Google Drive Integration <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">CBO, Advising and Recommending Enhancements <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Courses &amp; Grades <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Google Drive Integration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this feature, students will be able to access and upload all their documents and assignments pertaining to college admissions. Since most students have moved to use Google Docs and Google Drive to create, collaborate, access and share documents with their peers and teachers, Common App will integrate Google Docs and Google Drive.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>CBO, Advising, and Recommender Enhancements<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students receiving support from advising and community-based organizations will be able to work with those counsellors just as they work with their school-based counselors and teachers within the application. They will then be able to manage caseloads and view student progress within the Common App system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Courses &amp; Grades: <\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will be required to submit self-reported high school academic records when applying to some colleges and universities. By integrating this section, students who are already sending this information will be able to complete and submit it via their Common App, making the process of self-reporting transcripts more standardized and streamlined for students, counsellors, and colleges.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">These are some of the key upgrades that the company has discussed, there are many other enhancements that they will be fully launching to make the\u00a0user experience more friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common Application is famously known as \u2018Common App\u2019, a popular online college application platform has recently announced that it will be upgrading the application and will be introducing a series of enhancements that will make the application user-friendly. 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