CARSON, CA - DECEMBER 17: Felicia Johnson, 32, a second year social work student walks to the bus stop after returning some books at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Dominguez Hills has had a 17% drop in ...

The Common App is a shared application system that is used by just under 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States, and roughly 70 international institutions. Last year, the Common App ...

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

The Common Application is expanding its direct admissions efforts, this month partnering with 70 institutions in 28 states to offer proactive admission to more than 200,000 prospective college ...

Back in 1975, administrators from 15 colleges got together and decided to create one application that students could use to apply to any or all of their colleges. This was the birth of “The Common App ...

A new report from the Common App finds that the college-transfer process, long promoted as a way to help disadvantaged students earn four-year degrees, disproportionately serves students who are ...

The number of financially independent students using the Common Application to apply to colleges more than doubled between 2016-17 and 2023-24, according to a new report released on Monday. The ...

When Robert Mason worked in recruitment at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, he spent much of his time attending college fairs and meeting with interested students. But he noticed that not all ...

The Common Application is scrapping a question that asks applicants to reveal whether they have been subject to disciplinary action in high school, aiming to eliminate what it says could be an ...

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 ...