Not that we would have this blog become a diatribe against the Common App, but we couldn't help chuckle out loud when we read the following on Common App's Facebook timeline:

"APPLICANTS: Do not try to trick the system into letting you create two accounts. If you succeed, you have no idea of the potential mess that awaits you: confused colleges, confused counselors and teachers, mismatched records, incomplete applications....and that's just the beginning. For your own good, please don't go down this road."

To which The College Whisperer™  replied, tongue in cheek (to keep from swallowing same :-) by way of Facebook comment:

"...you have no idea of the potential mess that awaits you: confused colleges, confused counselors and teachers, mismatched records, incomplete applications....and that's just the beginning...." 

In truth, this is what awaits students who create but a single account on Common App! 1/2 LOL 

What confounds me, more than anything else, is that, to date, 19,856 people actually "Like" Common App on Facebook! 

[How long do you think the brain trust at Common App will allow that comment (among the many other derisive remarks) to stand?]

Folks, Common App, in its presently pathetic incarnation, is what happens when you take $8 million (the cost to create the Frankenstein monster that is CA4), and combine it with unfathomable ignorance and unimaginable arrogance. [And you thought College Board had the monopoly on those characteristics!]
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