The Common Application has a new competitor. Last week ApplicationsOnline LLC, in Baltimore, unveiled its Universal College Application, which has already won a baker’s dozen of clients, including ...

Due to technical issues with the Common Application (Common App), the Office of Undergraduate Admissions this year decided to extend its Early Decision I deadline and accept the Universal College ...

Students applying to the University of Chicago next fall will be able to submit the Universal College Application (UCA), an emerging rival to the Common Application. UChicago, which has been a Common ...

For the past five years, the University has accepted both the Common Application and its own application form, but this fall, in an attempt to simplify the application process, the Admission Office ...

Editor's Note: This column contains material similar to text that appeared in other published work. An Editor's Note was published in the Feb. 8, 2008, Herald. That Editor's Note can be found here.

A not-for-profit online application form used to help millions of Americans apply for something really, really important is failing. No, not that one. We're talking about the many woes of the nearly ...

FLAGSTAFF — College-bound Arizonans will soon have a new option when pursuing their higher education goals thanks to Northern Arizona University's universal admissions program in partnership with a ...

When I applied to college in the mid-eighties, I filled out my application on a typewriter, put in in an envelope and mailed it to my prospective colleges. My guidance counselor gathered my letters of ...

Penn's admissions office is changing how prospective students can apply to the University. For the 2008-2009 admissions cycle, Penn is eliminating its own application and adding the Universal College ...