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 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 ...

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 ...

When Robert Mason worked in recruitment at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, he spent much of his time attending college fairs and meeting with interested students. But he noticed that not all ...

Through a pilot partnership with the Illinois Community College Board, Sandburg is one of the first community colleges in the country where students can apply through the Common App, a platform that ...

When applying to college, many students and their families wish there was a magic solution to make things easier. The ...

Fourteen colleges and universities in Massachusetts now proactively offer admission to first-generation and low- and ...

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 ...

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Colleges will soon have the option to hide students’ race and ethnicity information on applications submitted through Common App, according to the organization. The move comes as the Supreme Court is ...

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 ...

In “Elite Colleges Explore Alternative to Common App” (The Chronicle, October 31), you describe how admissions officers at some of the most selective colleges are hoping to create a new online college ...