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 ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education from the inside out. The last few college acceptance/rejection letters for high school seniors are ...

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

Colleges that do not require essays or teacher recommendations will be allowed to join the Common Application because of a recent change in policy by the association. College App officials, who ...

The online Common Application sparked coast-to-coast consternation last week as technical difficulties plagued the system used by 517 colleges. On the eve of some institutions’ early-admission ...

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 ...

There is a certain uneasy pleasure to be taken, if one has had some argument with the Common Application, in the awareness that the current misfirings of the new version of the application has caused ...