Last week the Common Application Inc. announced the latest in a series of changes in its standardized form, used by an ever-soaring number of applicants. The 2011-12 version of the Common Application ...

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 ...

The primary purposes of the common application are to collect your biographical information, your personal statement, your experience history, your coursework history, and your letters of ...