CollegeNET, Inc. announced today an agreement with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that will ease the process of applying to medical school. Applying to most medical schools is a multi-step process that requires each applicant to complete a "common application" through the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) and multiple school-specific secondary applications. AAMC hosts the web-based common AMCAS application for 115 participating U.S. medical schools. CollegeNET, a contractor to a number of individual medical colleges, transparently hosts tailored, campus-specific secondary application forms on each college's behalf.

Until today, medical school applicants have had to tediously re-enter common information for each secondary application form. There has been no process available to use information already entered in the AMCAS application to pre-populate the multiple secondary applications students need to complete. Under this new agreement, schools can authorize the transfer of data from the AMCAS common application into the medical college secondary application hosted by CollegeNET. CollegeNET will use its patented Universal Forms Engine to securely transfer the data to the secondary applications for those schools. As a consequence, when students complete the AMCAS common application, basic data will automatically populate each secondary application. As more medical colleges host their secondary applications with CollegeNET, the repetitive entry of data by applicants will be reduced.

According to Pam Cranston, Associate Vice President, Division of Student Affairs and Education Services, "The AAMC is pleased to have developed this agreement with CollegeNET. It responds to requests by several schools that AMCAS provide secondary application services while recognizing that the AAMC is not ready to develop such a new service independently. CollegeNET was selected for a variety of reasons including CollegeNET's strict policy with respect to protecting applicant data, their experience with web-based applications processes, favorable reports from several AAMC constituents already working with CollegeNET, CollegeNET's experience as an Application Service Provider (ASP), and their alliances with high caliber organizations such as ACT and Commonfund."

According to Jim Wolfston, CollegeNET president: "We look forward to working with the schools and the AAMC to provide secondary web admissions services and increase the convenience for students applying to medical school. Our long experience in web admissions and our proven skill at securely transferring data between institutional servers for web-based graduation, enrollment services, and tuition processing positions us well to provide this new capability."

About CollegeNET, Inc.
CollegeNET, Inc. (corp.collegenet.com) is focused on providing technologies that save institutions money and improve educational access and affordability for citizens. The company provides innovations in admissions, forms commerce, alumni development, email management, and event and resource scheduling to colleges, universities, and nonprofits worldwide. CollegeNET e-solutions are now used by more than 1000 institutions including Virginia Tech, M.I.T., Georgia Tech, University of Washington, and University of Nebraska. The Company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

About the AAMC
The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including Veterans Administration medical centers; more than 105,000 faculty in 98 academic and scientific societies; and the nation's 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents. Additional information about the AAMC and U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals is available at www.aamc.org/newsroom.