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 Common Application has announced that it’s expanding its direct admissions program for the 2024–2025 application season to 116 member colleges and universities in 34 states. The full list of ...

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 ...

The number of financially independent students using the Common Application to apply to colleges more than doubled between 2016-17 and 2023-24, according to a new report released on Monday. The ...

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 ...

The Common Application, an online platform a million students use to apply to college, has acquired “Reach Higher,” the college-encouragement campaign that Michelle Obama launched when she was the ...

The Common Application announced Tuesday that it is dropping the question it has been asking since 2006 about applicants' criminal histories. Many educators and civil rights activities have been ...