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 ...

Once a cozy collection of fifteen or so private liberal arts colleges sharing one application form, the non-profit Common Application has grown into an organization that encompasses 702 institutions ...

Starting next year, the country’s most widely used college application form will stop asking prospective students about whether they have a criminal record. The surprise decision comes more than a ...

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In a development that would no doubt be welcomed by many aspiring college students and their parents, California should develop a common application form for admission to all levels of public higher ...

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 ...

The college application season is, in one sense, year-round, with different cohorts of students as well as counselors at high schools and colleges always working on some part of the admissions process ...

College application season is around the corner for many high schoolers, and students are preparing to submit transcripts, letters of recommendation, essays and more. The class of 2022's applications ...