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 ...

Starting next year, the country’s most widely used college application form will stop asking prospective students about whether they have a criminal record. The surprise decision comes more than a ...

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 ...

The Common Application is removing a question asking applicants to report whether they’ve been cited for a disciplinary violation in high school after their research found that the answer ...

Applying for college can be one of the most stressful parts of a high schooler’s life. It entails hours of document wrangling, rewriting the same personal essay over and over and prepping for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vinay Bhaskara co-founded CollegeVine and covers higher education. This article is more than 2 years old. The Common App is the ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. The Common Application’s most inane question is finally history. No longer will students have to self-report ...

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 ...