The Common Application is an online college application tool that lets you apply to more than 1,000 participating universities in the United States and abroad. Developed by the nonprofit access ...

What is the Common App? The Common App began as a way to simplify the college application process for both domestic and international students. It was started by 15 colleges who decided to “pool” ...

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 ...

Applying to multiple colleges used to be a tedious, time-consuming task. Each school had its own application form and its own slightly different set of required fields. Applying to 12 colleges meant ...