Okay, let’s start building your application. Before you build your application, let’s understand where you build your application. I mentioned that you have to submit forms as an application just like you submitted for your school admission. But where is this form? You will find them on the website of the respective university. Once you click “Apply” on their website, you can login and submit the form. However, filling out a similar form for multiple universities becomes a tedious job to to. This is why there exist websites which allow you to fill a single form and submit to multiple universities from there. The examples of these websites are “Common App” and “Coalition App”.

Among these apps, “Common App” is very popular among Nepali students. You can submit an application to almost any university or college though this website. However, among over 900 colleges, you can choose 20 colleges only and apply for free using a fee waiver. Some colleges aren’t accepting applications from the Common app. MIT is a famous example. In that case, you have to apply from their website itself. If you want to apply to more than 20 universities, you can use the Coalition App or the respective websites.

In this guide, I will instruct you to build your application in the “Common App” only but other mediums are very similar. You should be able to follow it yourself after you build the application on the “Common App”.

Here is the wikipedia definition of the Common App.

The Common Application is an undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to any of more than 950 member colleges and universities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, China, Japan, and many European countries.

In the next article, I will talk about logging into the common app, learning its interface and navigating through it. Welcome there.