New York University announced Monday that it will ignore the Common Application’s checkbox questions about criminal and disciplinary history, opting for more specific questions that focus only on ...

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Applying to college is a tedious and often stressful process for students and their parents. In addition to finishing their last year of high school, teens are also juggling the SAT or ACT, college ...

The Common Application announced Thursday that it will maintain questions about applicants' criminal background and disciplinary records, rejecting a push to drop the questions. At the same time, the ...

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 ...

While there was some minor tweaking with four of the five Common Application www.commonapp.org (Common App) prompts this year, there is one prompt, No. 4, that is entirely new. Last year’s prompt ...

On Feb. 24, the Common Application announced changes to questions relating to gender identity and legal sex, which are to take effect in the 2021–2022 application process. The Common Application ...

As Apple releases its iOS 7 and Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, the Common Application is releasing its newest version: CA4. The new platform, which was released at the beginning of August features a ...

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 their colleges. This was the birth of the “Common App” ...