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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education from the inside out. The last few college acceptance/rejection letters for high school seniors are ...

In my updating of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas, his satirical handbook of “Tradition, Order, and Sound Conventions,” I have added the following entry: private sector: Always efficient, ...