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

The Common Application and CBCA are similar in nature, but the main distinction is the pool of schools. CBCA is exclusive to ...

The Common App is the hub for students’ applications—including their activities lists, letters of recommendation, and ...

The organization that started with 15 private colleges now has more than 1,100 participating institutions. But closing equity ...

The Common App is a standard college application used by roughly 900 schools across the U.S. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us ...

The Common App allows you to see which schools charge application fees and what you can expect to pay in total before you submit. While you're still responsible for paying each school's fees if you ...

The number of financially independent students using the Common Application to apply to colleges more than doubled between 2016-17 and 2023-24, according to a new report released on Monday.

Through that date, 1,244,476 distinct first-year applicants had applied to 841 colleges participating in the Common App. That number represents an increase of 21% over 2019–20 (1,028,422 ...

With the Coalition App (powered by Scoir) and Common App, applying to multiple colleges is faster and easier than ever. But what are the differences between these two application aggregators? Do ...

Rickard said one-third of Common App’s 1.2 million students sought to be the first in their family to attend college, and many of them applied to schools that might have previously seemed out of ...

Common App data from 2019 showed that among applicants who did not report a disciplinary history, only 12 percent did not submit their application. That number rose to 22 percent among students ...