Editor's Note: This column contains material similar to text that appeared in other published work. An Editor's Note was published in the Feb. 8, 2008, Herald. That Editor's Note can be found here.

The Common Application has a new competitor. Last week ApplicationsOnline LLC, in Baltimore, unveiled its Universal College Application, which has already won a baker’s dozen of clients, including ...

Due to technical issues with the Common Application (Common App), the Office of Undergraduate Admissions this year decided to extend its Early Decision I deadline and accept the Universal College ...

Students applying to the University of Chicago next fall will be able to submit the Universal College Application (UCA), an emerging rival to the Common Application. UChicago, which has been a Common ...

Over the past 30 years, the nonprofit company Common Application Inc. has been influential in streamlining the college-application process for millions of students. But its singular dominance in that ...