For Georgetown dean, Common Application is part of a larger admissions problem
Why Do I Have to Log In Again?
Discussion PolicyTuesday, September 28, 2010; 4:40 PM
Gone are the days when students aspiring to America's best colleges agonized over a stack of distinct, but largely duplicative forms. This is the age of the Common App, an innovation that saves students time and has the happy side effect of swelling applicant pools, giving schools the illusion of rising selectivity without the reality of improved academic offerings.
Charlie Deacon, gatekeeper at Georgetown University for the past 38 years, is determined to resist this alluring trend by continuing to fill the freshman class with students of sufficient dedication to slog through a six-page, two-part application form that is accepted nowhere else.
To Deacon, the Common Application is part of a larger
