Vanderbilt Hall on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 12, 2015. Yale requires several more essays in addition to the Common App. Bloomberg via Getty Images / Updated.

The Common App is expanding its direct admissions program for the 2024–2025 application season to 116 member colleges and universities in 34 states. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

The Common Application has long been used primarily by teenagers planning to enroll in college full time right after high school. But soon the online platform will evolve, its leaders say, to ...