Apply to Private Colleges: Common Application
The Common Application is a not-for-profit, member organization committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Forty years ago, 15 forward-thinking institutions of higher education got together to brainstorm something great. Instead of a student needing to complete a separate college application for each of their 15 institutions, they envisioned a future when a student could complete one application and send copies to any of the other 14 schools. This became known as The Common Application Experiment, and it forever changed the course of college admissions.
Today, what was once a small but innovative group of 15 institutions has transformed to a member organization comprised of more than 750 wonderfully diverse colleges and universities from across the world. Each year, more than 1 million students, one-third of whom are first-generation, use the Common Application to submit over 4 million applications.
