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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The Common Application, a centralized platform over 1,000 ...

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, ...