College Application Process
by Dianna Clayton
Texas Common Application Website
www.applytexas.org
This website will link you to the home pages of all Texas state-funded universities. It is also best to fill it out on the web—not the paper copy—because you can save it and use it for more than one college. You may complete a paper copy to aid you in completing the online application. You must complete this application for any college you are considering if it is a Texas university.
“Important stuff” about the Texas Common Application:
• Consistently use your full legal name on all sections.
• Print in black ink for any written information.
• Be sure to order a transcript for every college to which you apply.
• Be sure to make a photocopy (paper version) or a printout (web version) for your records.
• Make sure you send all fees, etc., as requested.
• Have your credit card number handy for web applications—a fee is assessed for each college.
• The major codes required are in the code book in the counselor’s office.
• Write essays in Word and have a teacher proof them for you. Write your own essays. The receiver wants your work, not someone else’s. Then transmit them with your Common Application. Be careful or you will transmit an unedited document.
• There are 4 essay topics—it is a good idea to write the essays now and have your English teacher review them for you. The essays should be typed and no longer than one page (8 ½” x 11”). Put your name and Social Security number at the top of each page. The essays are fairly generic and will work for many scholarship essays as well.
- Topic A— Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.
- Topic B— Choose an issue of importance to you – the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope– and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.
-Topic C—there may be personal information that you want considered as part of your admissions application. Write an essay describing that information. You might include exceptional hardships, challenges, or opportunities that have shaped or impacted your abilities or academic credentials, personal responsibilities, exceptional achievements or talents, educational goals, or ways in which you might contribute to an institution committed to creating a diverse learning environment.
-Topic D—The essay in this section is specific to certain college majors and is not required by all colleges/universities that accept the Texas Common Application. Please see the “General Application Information” in the front of this booklet. If you are not applying for a major in Architecture, Art, Art History, Design, Studio Art, Visual Art Studies/Art Education, you are not required to write this essay. Personal interaction with objects, images and spaces can be so powerful as to change the way one thinks about particular issues or topics. For your intended area of study (architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual arts studies/art education), describe an experience where instruction in that area or your personal interaction with an object, image or space effected a type of change in your thinking. What did you do to act upon your new thinking and what have you done to prepare yourself for further study in this area?
Enclose documentation and references to contact for verification, if appropriate.
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