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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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Common Application used for college admissions at more than 600 institutions is changing a question it asks about student criminal records, as the U.S. Department of Education ...

The most recent report from the Common Application shows that the number of first-year applicants to college has increased by 2% over this same time last year.

ASU announced last month that incoming freshman can now apply to the University via the Common Application in addition to the University's traditional application method. The University's adoption of ...

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 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 ...

One of the most difficult assignments soon-to-be college students are facing is completing their college application process thanks to bugs in the online process. Kenji Johnston, a 17-year-old high ...

The last few college acceptance/rejection letters for high school seniors are trickling in, so that can mean only one thing: time for juniors to start the process. The Common Application, commonly ...

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 ...

A group of 83 colleges and universities, including some of the most elite in the country, have banded together to offer a shared college-application system that they hope will engage more low-income ...