College Application Complaint

          Every fall, seniors in high school are subjected to the irritating and time consuming task of filling out college applications. Just before typing this post, I was sitting at the desk in my room and completing part of the University of California online application.
          Here I was, with the document that my entire high school career was based on, and I was getting annoyed. There are many parts to the application, and personally, I don't want to fill it out. This simple document is simply a record of all of my grades, accomplishments, life, and career...stuff. Each year thousands of college bound high school kids sit down with applications to various colleges, and they all complete them. They spend hours on them. We spend hours on them. Every new generation of kids has to go through this sluggish haul of college Q and A. And every year, thousands of college bound kids complain and moan, and post facebook statuses about how they are "finally finished with college apps!" or instagram pictures of the green triangles next to the common applications online tool. Each graduating class has to do these applications, and they take forever, but we really can't do anything about that.
          Can we? Honestly, I have no idea. But, I am quite annoyed that no one has found a quicker, easier way to apply to a college. Can we suggest something? Can we have a database that all of our grades, volunteer hours, accomplishments, extracurriculars, awards, achievements, GPA, test scores, and pretty much anything else a college could want are kept in? Kids every year slave over their applications  and never seem to point out how long it takes. I find that having to fill out the same information for different colleges is unnecessary. If we had a database that recorded information as it happened every year, kids would have a full resumé filled out as soon as they started their applications, and all that would be needed is to send the "resumé" to each college.
          But this won't happen. Because each year, I'm guessing some kids think up a better system, but ditch the idea when they realize that they will still have to write their own applications; they will get no benefit. So instead, we just complain about all of this college junk.