College Applications

Select your future college.

Selecting a college is a big decision. As the Big Future webpage points out, you have over 3,000 options for selecting a college or university, so it can feel overwhelming to find the college for you. Fortunately, Big Future enables you to browse colleges based on what your personal priorities are.

Big Future Website
Senior Year College Prep Checklist

The Common Application

Now, over 750 higher education institutions accept the Common App.

Curious whether your dream college accepts the Common App? Search directly here, or keep an eye on the application information as you do research on websites like BigFuture.

Note: Students are required to pay application fees (or apply fee waivers, if eligible) to each institution they submit the Common App to, and many colleges have supplemental essays in addition to those required by the Common App.

The Common Application

ApplyTexas

ApplyTexas is accepted by all Texas public two- and four-year universities as well as some private colleges.

Be sure to save your username and password so that you can get back into your application any time! You can use your ApplyTexas account throughout your time in higher education if you choose to transfer to another Texas institution.

Note: Students are required to pay application fees (or apply fee waivers, if eligible) to each institution they submit ApplyTexas to.

ApplyTexas
Colleges That Accept Fee Waivers