--- title: How To Fix College Applications description: How to fix online college applications, should LGBT inmates have their own prisons and more. canonical: https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:25.144Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Fix College Applications og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Fix College Applications twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Fix College Applications by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Online applications have wrecked college admissions. Here’s how to fix them.**](http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober-2016/how-the-internet-wrecked-college-admissions/) By Anne Kim in the Washington Monthly **2\.** [**Should LGBT inmates have their own prisons?**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/should-lgbt-inmates-have-their-own-prisons/72150) By Daniel Malloy in Ozy **3\.** [**Democracy depends on the consent of the losers.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/trump-election-rigged-democracy/504338/) By Uri Friedman in the Atlantic **4\.** [**How to walk around the world without leaving New York.**](https://www.buzzfeed.com/garnettecadogan/how-to-walk-around-the-world-without-leaving-new-york?utm%5Fterm=.qxmwBlnr3#.cw7Nw7VL6) By Garnette Cadogan in BuzzFeed **5\.** [**This is why you can’t run the country like a startup.**](https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/president-obama-explains-why-you-cant-run-the-u-s-like-a-startup/) By Darrell Etherington in TechCrunch  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/"},"headline":"How To Fix College Applications","datePublished":"2016-10-18T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:25.144Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/","keywords":["Innovation","College","New York","LGBT","democracy","startup"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4534891/how-to-fix-college-applications/","name":"How To Fix College Applications"}}]}] ```