Last week the Common Application Inc. announced the latest in a series of changes in its standardized form, used by an ever-soaring number of applicants. The 2011-12 version of the Common Application ...

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 ...

Once a cozy collection of fifteen or so private liberal arts colleges sharing one application form, the non-profit Common Application has grown into an organization that encompasses 702 institutions ...

The primary purposes of the common application are to collect your biographical information, your personal statement, your experience history, your coursework history, and your letters of ...

Last December, the unemployment rate for the San Francisco and Oakland metropolitan areas went below 4 percent for first time since 2007. While an economic comeback is good news overall, it obscures ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] On the 13th, the Korea Council for University Education introduced a service that allows applicants to prepare the common application form and common ...

Just for a moment, forget all the glitches. Forget the panicked high-school students who couldn’t log in to submit their applications or who saw their essays garbled. Forget the parents who paid the ...

Site allows students to apply to multiple colleges with one application Colleges assure students glitches won%27t affect their chances for admission Many students use application to gain early ...

Students can now apply to 33 historically black colleges or universities by using one application and paying one fee. The so-called "Black College Common Application" is the brainchild of Robert Mason ...

The Common Application, the admission form accepted by more than 400 colleges and universities, was created in part to ease the burden on high school seniors. No longer must applicants fill out a ...