The Common Application welcomes 37 New Colleges and Universities

Marymount University

The Common Application (CA) is announcing the addition of 37 new colleges and universities effective July 1, 2012, bringing the total number of institutions accepting the association’s standardized application forms to 490.

Locally, Emory & Henry College, Marymount University, Roanoke College, and Virginia Intermont College will be joining the CA team for the 2012-13 application cycle.

Nine of the new members are public institutions including two new flagships:  Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In addition, the association will welcome 5 international institutions and 2 historically Black colleges and universities.

Membership in the association is open to undergraduate colleges and universities that are accredited by a regional accrediting association and are nonprofit members in good standing of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). All members must agree to promote college access by evaluating students using a “holistic” selection process.

Other local Common Application members include American, Christopher Newport, George Washington, Catholic, Johns Hopkins, Goucher, Hood, Howard, Loyola University of Maryland, Salisbury, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Stevenson, the College of William and Mary, Mary Washington, UMBC, St. John’s of Maryland, UVa, Towson University, the University of Richmond, Randolph-Macon, and Virginia Wesleyan.

The newest Common Application members are:

1. Alma College
2. Anna Maria College
3. Blackburn College
4. Calvin College
5. College of St. Joseph
6. Concordia University Irvine
7. Dillard University
8. Elms College
9. Emory & Henry College
10. Grove City College
11. Hult International Business School
12. Keele University
13. Keuka College
14. Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
15. Lyon College
16. Manchester College
17. Marymount University
18. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
19. Mercer University
20. Molloy College
21. The Ohio State University
22. Rhode Island School of Design
23. Richmond The American International University in London
24. Roanoke College
25. Rowan University
26. Saint Joseph College CT
27. Simpson College
28. Soka University of America
29. St. Thomas University
30. Tennessee Wesleyan College
31. The University of Tennessee Knoxville
32. University of Illinois at Chicago
33. University of Stirling
34. Virginia Intermont College
35. Warren Wilson College
36. Woodbury University
37. Yale NUS College

This article also appeared in the Examiner.com.