The Common App website will also have a new look and feel, with the "Common App" menu renamed "My Common Application" for ...

Common Questions For First-Year Students If I apply early for your school, am I applying early for all schools? No, you have the ability to submit your application to individual schools with the ...

For example, some schools don’t mandate the Common App personal essay, but others require college-specific essays and letters of recommendation. The guide also indicates whether particular colleges ...

The Common Application is a nonprofit organization of colleges dedicated to promoting college access through the use of holistic admissions.

This week, the Common Application opened, allowing students across the country to officially begin their college applications.

The Common App, however, announced a change in their application earlier this week. The application will now include an optional writing section for students to write about the impact of Covid-19 ...

For example, the deadline for students to file early-action applications to the University of Michigan which is accepting the Common Application for the first time this year is Nov. 1.

Students undeterred by affirmative action ruling, application trends show Slightly more underrepresented, higher-achieving students mentioned their race or ethnicity in college application essays.

Looking ahead, the report raised a number of issues that it suggested the Common Application needs to address. For example, the report noted that the Common App has always struggled to define whether ...

New York University offers an example of this approach: In 2015 the school announced that it would be ignoring the criminal-history question on the Common App and would instead ask students in its ...