Beginning this Fall, students applying to UMBC for the Fall 2011 term will be able to use The Common Application. UMBC is one of 400 institutions from across the country that utilize The Common Application, and the first public university in Maryland to do so.
The Common Application is a not-for-profit organization that serves students and member institutions by providing a single admission application – online and in print – that students may submit to any of its member institutions. Once completed, copies of the Application for Undergraduate Admission can be sent to any number of participating colleges. The same is true of the School Report, Midyear Report, Final Report and Teacher Evaluation forms. This allows you to spend less time on the busywork of applying for admission, and more time on what's really important: college research, visits, essay writing, and senior year coursework. Last year almost 1.4 million applications were submitted via the Common App Online.