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 ...

How do you fill out the parent information section if you live with a foster family? Does babysitting your little brother after school count as an “activity”? The questions that come up while filling ...

The Common Application -- love it or hate it -- is a force in American higher education. It has been criticized for (allegedly) encouraging colleges to sacrifice an original essay question for one ...

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High school seniors are just a week away from the Aug. 1 launch of the 2016-2017 Common Application or known simply as the Common App. Over 600 colleges use the Common App as a universal undergraduate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Western Illinois University is now live on the Common App, making it easier for students to apply and get admitted. The Common App ...

The Common Application for Transfer has hit the ground running with hundreds of colleges and universities participating in time for the 2018-2019 application season. The new service is intended to ...

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 ...