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Learn how to fill out the education and testing sections of the Common App, including the all important Honors Section where you report your awards.

Learn how to fill out the Profile and Family sections of the Common App, with a question-by-question breakdown.

Learn how to fill out the Activities and Writing section of the Common App. The Activities section is very important because it effectively serves as your resume.

Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to increase youth voice under his administration. Two members of an existing youth commission started by his predecessor have ideas.

An overview of the account creation process and basic structure of the Common Application, as well as several overarching tips and tricks for filling out a Common App.

Students are twice as likely to take steps toward enrollment at a college that offers them direct admission, according to a new, national Common App study.

Large-scale study finds that guaranteeing free, simplified admission increases college applications from minoritized, low-income and first-gen students, but cost still deters them from enrolling. Students offered direct admission to college were 12 percent more likely to apply to a postsecondary institution but no more likely than those who applied through traditional channels to enroll, according to a new large-scale study released Tuesday.

As students head back to campus, early estimates are generating optimism among college leaders that enrollments may recover some losses sustained over the past decade.

As students head back to campus, early estimates are generating optimism among college leaders that enrollments may recover some losses sustained over the past decade.

Sivaan Sharma, an Indo-Fijian student in Austin, Texas, writes how the Supreme Court’s undoing of affirmative action is making him recalculate if and how to bring his racial experience into his college application.