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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Today, the Common Application ...

The Common Application or the Common App is a single point of contact for submission process to US universities If you are planning on applying to American universities this fall, chances are that you ...

Wayland Chiu is a freshman at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me. Updated March 31, 2015, 6:46 AM Last year, I applied to 19 colleges, 14 private and five public. It was too many. Like many others ...

The fall season is college application season when every college candidate applies to the Common Application Essay. This website allows students to apply to many institutions at once and requires a ...

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 ...

Students submitting an application to Pitt in the 2018-19 school year will be the first class that can use the Common Application, according to a statement Pitt released Tuesday. The Common App allows ...

Just for a moment, forget all the glitches. Forget the panicked high-school students who couldn’t log in to submit their applications or who saw their essays garbled. Forget the parents who paid the ...

The Common Application, the admission form accepted by more than 400 colleges and universities, was created in part to ease the burden on high school seniors. No longer must applicants fill out a ...

The Common Application and CollegeNET announced -- without detail -- that they had settled an antitrust lawsuit filed by CollegeNET in 2014. The suit charged that Common Application had eliminated ...