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Common Application
Who runs Common Application, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest college application platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- College Board
Measured from Common Application’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Common Application01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Common Application
Common Application commonapp.org
Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.
Wikidata: undergraduate college admission application
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Common Application tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
8 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Common Application
None of the 60 sites closest to Common Application match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Common Application adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 184 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:38.140.22.35 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.intacct.…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: NTl6DEZYKXI8xiqOm6JZQntGcai7yiAgb-Q45eWTkZgorX63ZtOIbA==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:38.140.22.35 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.intacct.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1882.awsdns-43.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=vEUKOPoQYVjvsPqi
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FunB6cwBIc9kVoSLG4wD15wiX5JyVFQosesAnkt…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=M601ahgeHTc-QtNCA89iAhprUgAznbcYuw05pLik22k
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:38.140.22.35 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.intacct.…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on commonapp.org 14/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on commonapp.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on commonapp.org 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Salesforce 7/20
- nginx · not on commonapp.org 6/20
- PHP · not on commonapp.org 6/20
- Stripe · not on commonapp.org 6/20
- Zoom · not on commonapp.org 6/20
- Canva · not on commonapp.org 5/20
- OneTrust · not on commonapp.org 5/20