The Common Application is changing slightly for 2011-2012. This preview document highlights and explains the changes from this year’s application. The 2011-12 Common App Online will launch on August 1.
The Common App is being used by 463 institutions (including these 49 colleges and universities, which are new to the Common App):
- Caldwell College (NJ)
- Carroll University (WI)
- Castleton State College
- Centenary College
- Christian Brothers University
- Christopher Newport University
- Cogswell Polytechnical College
- DeSales University
- Drury University
- Eastern Connecticut State University
- Flagler College
- Franklin College Switzerland
- Goshen College
- Howard University
- John Cabot University
- John F. Kennedy University
- Lipscomb University
- Long Island University Brooklyn Campus
- Lyndon State College
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Rhode Island College
- Rockhurst University
- Saint Leo University
- Saint Martin’s University
- Salisbury University
- Samford University
- Seton Hill University
- Sierra Nevada College
- St. Joseph’s College – Brooklyn Campus
- St. Joseph’s College – Long Island Campus
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland
- SUNY College at Old Westbury
- SUNY Institute of Technology
- The American University of Paris
- The College of Saint Rose
- Towson University
- University of Evansville
- University of Hartford
- University of Kentucky
- University of Michigan – Flint
- University of New Orleans
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington
- University of Southern California
- University of St Andrews
- University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
- Wartburg College
- Wheeling Jesuit University
- Whitworth University




I actually filled out the 2010/2011 common application forms instead of the 2011/2012 common application forms for the fall admissions in 2012. I would want to know if this will affect my application and also, if there is any major difference between the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 common application and Yale supplementary forms.
It will affect you. They will not accept your 2010-2011 application. Moreover, if you did it online as opposed to on printed paper, your account will clear and you will have lost it all by August 1, 2011.
Sorry to give you the bad news. Also, the supplements are subject to change. If you’re looking for a quick start, maybe do your essay, but not place it in any application.
Sorry.
The Common App Online 2011-12 launched a few hours ahead of schedule, at 8:15 PM ET on July 31st, 2011.