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Is It Harder to Apply for Health Care or Harvard?
Students have confronted frozen pages, troubles with formatting essays, , duplicate fees and difficulties getting into personal accounts.Â
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It's an online system. It tries to make the complex process of applying for an important public good a bit easier. But recently it's been plagued by glitches, leaving people stressed. And angry. And questioning whether the system itself can survive.
It's the Common App, of course. Established in 1975, the Common Application is a standardized college application that enables easy submission to multiple institutions. More than 500 colleges and universities now accept it.