Common App vs Schoolites Admissions

Common App helps students explore colleges, submit applications, and navigate the admissions process. It serves first-year and transfer applicants and lets students explore more than 1,100 Common App colleges. Its first-year guidance covers gathering materials, setting up an account, adding colleges, engaging supporters, reviewing requirements, planning essays, and submitting an application. Accounts can roll over from year to year, and answers in My Common Application can be saved across years. Students who complete a profile may receive non-binding direct admission offers from participating colleges before submitting an application; applying through the program to colleges offering those admissions is free. Otherwise, each college decides whether to charge an application fee and the amount, and many colleges do not charge one. Qualifying students may be eligible for a Common App fee waiver, subject to participating colleges’ policies. The nonprofit membership organization describes its focus as access, equity, and integrity in college admission. Common App is available on web, Android, and iOS. It lists integrations with CRM and SIS providers, school counseling platforms, and embedded services including SlideRoom and UStrive.

Schoolites Admissions is the admissions module in Schoolites, a school management system for K-12 schools, play schools, coaching institutes, colleges, and universities. It supports customizable online forms, application tracking, digital document collection, and automated applicant communications. Schools can receive applications through public links, personalized parent links, or manual entry, while OCR can scan documents and populate student details. The module collects admission fees online, tracks payments, issues automatic receipts, handles refunds, and sends payment reminders. Admissions reporting includes conversion analytics, class-wise reports, source tracking, and exports to Excel or PDF. Integrations listed include Razorpay and Stripe for payments, WhatsApp Business and MSG91 for messaging, and ZKTeco and eSSL biometric devices. A REST API uses OAuth 2.0 and webhooks, with access available on request. Schoolites runs on web, iOS, Android, and offers an API. Pricing starts at ₹10/student/mo, with a 14-day trial and no free plan; a ₹3,000 one-time registration fee is also listed.