• DOI:10.3386/W26151
Corpus ID: 92990808

Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application

@article{Knight2019ReducingFI,
  title={Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application},
  author={B. Knight and N. Schiff},
  journal={Political Economy - Development: Public Service Delivery eJournal},
  year={2019}
}

B. Knight, N. Schiff

Published 2019

Psychology

Political Economy - Development: Public Service Delivery eJournal

College admissions in the U.S. is decentralized, with students applying separately to each school. This creates frictions in the college admissions process and, if substantial, might ultimately limit student choice. In this paper, we study the introduction of the Common Application (CA) platform, under which students submit a single application to all member schools, potentially reducing frictions and increasing student choice. We first document that joining the CA increases the number of… CONTINUE READING

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