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 ...

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 ...

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Anyone who’s dealt with college applications at any point over the last four decades has probably heard of the Common Application. Like the two other applications listed above, the Common Black ...

The primary purposes of the common application are to collect your biographical information, your personal statement, your experience history, your coursework history, and your letters of ...

Applying for college can be one of the most stressful parts of a high schooler’s life. It entails hours of document wrangling, rewriting the same personal essay over and over and prepping for ...

The Common Application and the Universal College Application are switching up their applications for this upcoming school year, and they're making a change much bigger than just adding a few new essay ...

Colleges will ask what about your experiences mattered to you and why. Write down the details now while they're fresh in your ...

In 2010, advocates for students who don't identify as straight or conforming to one gender asked the Common Application to add optional questions on gender identity and sexual orientation. In 2011, ...

The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students ...

Starting next year, the country’s most widely used college application form will stop asking prospective students about whether they have a criminal record. The surprise decision comes more than a ...