The Common Application is an online college application tool that lets you apply to more than 1,000 participating universities in the United States and abroad. Developed by the nonprofit access ...

The goal of the 38-year-old Common Application has been to revolutionize the nightmarishly cumbersome and complex process of applying to college. When I was a high school student in the late 1970s, I ...

What is the Common App? The Common App began as a way to simplify the college application process for both domestic and international students. It was started by 15 colleges who decided to “pool” ...

The Common App allows students to submit applications to more than 1,100 higher ed institutions. But until now, none of its members were community colleges focused on granting associate degrees. The ...

Applying to multiple colleges used to be a tedious, time-consuming task. Each school had its own application form and its own slightly different set of required fields. Applying to 12 colleges meant ...

If you're a college-bound high school senior, chances are pretty good that you'll be logging onto the Common App to apply to school this fall. Between test scores, the personal statement and ...

Just for a moment, forget all the glitches. Forget the panicked high-school students who couldn’t log in to submit their applications or who saw their essays garbled. Forget the parents who paid the ...

The nonprofit organization behind the Common Application, a single form that students can fill out to apply to any college that uses it, announced this week that, starting next year, it will no longer ...

As an American high school student in Colorado, Zachary Fornelius says his school held projects to help students prepare for applying to college; however, those did not help when it came to applying ...

Admissions staff members have grappled for years with whether applicants should be required to disclose their high school disciplinary history when applying to college. The Common Application, a ...

For current high school sophomores — potential members of Georgetown University’s Class of 2031 — becoming a Hoya may be more difficult than ever. These students will become the first with the option ...