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Common App Expands Direct Admissions, Including Partnering With Connecticut

The Common Application said Thursday it is broadening its work in direct admissions, the burgeoning practice of proactively admitting students to a college before they even apply. The organization unveiled two programs. In the first, the Common App will help with Connecticut’s existing direct admissions initiative that automatically admits students to one of nine participating public and private colleges in the state. The second is more generalized — the Common App will work with 70 other U.S. colleges to send automatic admission offers this month to some 200,000 students. 
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