Common Application first-year SDS data feeds will begin starting on August 13, 2025.

Changes to the Common Application will be reflected in the data feeds for the 2025-26 application year.

📖 Learn more about Common Application changes.

Updates to CommonApp source formats

In preparation for the data feeds that will begin, we have updated all active existing CommonApp source formats to inactivate the remap settings and update the Remap As Of Date to 8/7/2025.

Until the first file is received, the remap settings will appear blank. The mappings will appear with the same mappings from last year once a file is uploaded. At that time, you can update your remap settings, including making any desired changes and also updating any year-specific items, such as application round and entry term.

Once you have updated and confirmed your mappings for this year, you can go into the Source Formats tool to update the Remap Active setting to Active. Once this is done, all files received on will import using those settings.

For testing purposes, we recommend make all changes in production, and then refresh your test environment and activate the source format there.

If the records and data were created as expected, then activate the source formats in production.

📝 Documents are not imported in test environments.

2025-26 First-Year application changes

U.S. Permanent Resident → U.S. permanent resident (green card holder)

The Common App changed the value for U.S. Permanent Resident to U.S. permanent resident (green card holder).  Technolutions pushed out an update to change the value of U.S. Permanent Resident to U.S. permanent resident (green card holder).

U.S. Resident

The CommonApp is collapsing two of the previous choice values for the Citizenship question into a new, more encompassing status called U.S. Resident.

This new status will include a descriptor that explains that this answer choice encompasses a variety of statuses, including but not limited to:

• U.S. refugee or asylee

• DACA

• Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)

• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

• Undocumented students

• Students eligible for noncitizen U.S. federal aid

• Students whose status is pending

An example of the new options:

Many schools will choose to map U.S. Resident to a custom field as they have previously mapped DACA, U.S. refugee or asylee or undocumented students.