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 idea behind the Common App is to try and reduce the barriers that students face when applying to college," says Jenny Rickard, president and CEO of The Common Application. Despite its popularity, ...

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Students have several options when it comes to college application platforms. One popular choice is the Common Application, ...

At its inception, the Common Application was little more than an entity that photocopied and mailed paper applications to 15 member institutions. About thirty-five years later in the digital age, the ...

For most college applicants, filling out the demographics section of the Common Application is as easy as selecting from a drop-down menu. For undocumented students, however, the answers aren’t as ...

The Common Application has a new competitor. Last week ApplicationsOnline LLC, in Baltimore, unveiled its Universal College Application, which has already won a baker’s dozen of clients, including ...

College applications have increased dramatically this year. Now the question is whether that increase will translate into larger enrollments in the fall. A new report points to a substantial increase ...

The glitches on the Common Application in the fall -- which left many applicants unable to submit their applications -- may be fixed. But why did they happen in the first place? A report released ...

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 ...

For the past five years, the University has accepted both the Common Application and its own application form, but this fall, in an attempt to simplify the application process, the Admission Office ...

In February, the Common Application, used by nearly 700 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad for admissions, announced some big changes to its essay prompts for the 2017-2018 ...