New York University announced Monday that it will ignore the Common Application’s checkbox questions about criminal and disciplinary history, opting for more specific questions that focus only on ...

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

It's crunch time for the college admission season. The application deadline for many colleges and universities is fast approaching for high school seniors. Many students applying to selective colleges ...

The Common Application announced Tuesday that it is dropping the question it has been asking since 2006 about applicants' criminal histories. Many educators and civil rights activities have been ...

The Common Application last week told members that it was tweaking the question it asks about applicants' criminal backgrounds and also starting a study of the utility of asking the criminal ...

While there was some minor tweaking with four of the five Common Application www.commonapp.org (Common App) prompts this year, there is one prompt, No. 4, that is entirely new. Last year’s prompt ...

Essay writing tutors are excited, and college applicants are more stressed than ever: the Common Application announced the prompts for the personal statement that accompanies the college application.