Filling out college applications? Look to Collegezapps.com

By Rachel Hanson, Contributing Writer

Updated: 1/7/2009

Getting a college education is one of the most important steps that many young people make today. The choice of a university is a vital one; not only for the resulting degree that is awarded after years of hard work, but also in terms of how a young person’s life evolves socially and how far away from home one goes. Choosing a university means more than choosing to pursue a degree; it also means choosing a university that is going to stimulate you both academically and personally. Finally, choosing a university means committing to put that university’s name on your resume for the rest of your life alongside the degree that you earned there.

As you get ready to make this very important decision of where to get your college education and what degree to pursue, the application process can be a daunting one. Experts recommend that students apply to at least ten universities in order to maximize their chances of getting accepted at a university that they want to, in the degree program of their choice, as well as maximize their chances of getting significant financial aid for their college education.

Filling out applications for ten different universities can take up an astronomical amount of time; however, there is a website that can help… Collegezapps.com, making the first step to getting a college education much easier.

What is Collegezapps.com?

Collegezapps.com is a website dedicated to helping high school students fill out applications for multiple universities. All of a student’s personal information and contact information are saved in the system, as well as answers to some general questions regardless of degree program sought. Applying to multiple universities becomes a matter of answering the focused questions of each particular college that one is applying to. These questions are the ones that pertain most directly to pursuing a college education; they also focus more closely on one’s choice of degree program.

Simply enter the names of the universities that you’d like to apply to, and the Collegezapps’ database will begin formatting your application for each of those colleges. The website centralizes the application process, formats everything professionally, and churns out one application after another.

Gone are the days of sitting down with 20 different application forms, one from each college one is applying to. Gone are the days of filling in one’s address and birth date twenty times. The financial aid form (FAFSA) is filled out once and applies to all college applications; why should the college application be any different from the financial aid application?

Specific Questions

In addition to the commonly-asked questions that most colleges want to hear answers to (e.g. What extra-curricular activities and community service do you participate in?), there are specific questions that each college comes up with. These unique questions are sometimes variations on the same theme, but each application tends to pose slightly different questions.

The goal of Collegezapps.com is to centralize the general section of the application process so that students can spend their time and energy on these important, unique, questions. These questions typically carry substantial weight. It’s the answers to these unique questions that get significant amounts of attention from those reviewing applications. Collegezapps.com lets students focus on these important questions and leaves the repetition and formatting up to the professionals!

Even the cost of Collegezapps.com is user-friendly. Ranging from $14.95 for one application to $69.95 for 15 applications, their pricing definitely makes using the service affordable even for students who are responsible for paying the fee themselves.

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