The Common Application has added a question on students' COVID-19 experiences. The question reads, "Community disruptions such as COVID-19 and natural disasters can have deep and long-lasting impacts.

The Common Application is today announcing a series of changes to make the application more inclusive for transgender applicants. The application will: Add a question to provide applicants with the ...

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 ...

The Common Application announced plans Sept. 30 to remove a question asking college applicants to self-report disciplinary actions taken against them in high school, a move that experts on higher ...

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” ...

A student at California Institute of Technology, which is one of the 35 colleges experimenting with adding questions to the Common App to glean information about students’ home life responsibilities.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. The Common Application opened on ...

The Common App is a shared application system that is used by just under 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States, and roughly 70 international institutions. Last year, the Common App ...

Correction: Evelyn Minjares-Carrillo's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. Melanie Urgiles considered Johns Hopkins University a “reach” school. The first-generation Latina ...