The Common Application (informally known as the Common App) is an unergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to any of 315 member colleges and universities in the United States. It's managed by the staff of a not-for-profit membership association (The Common Application, Inc.) and governed by a 13-member volunteer Board of Directors drawn from college admission deans and secondary school college guidance counselors. Its mission is to encourage college "access" by promoting holistic admission (the use of subjective criteria like essays and recommendations alongside objective criteria). It promotes holistic admission by limiting membership to institutions that have committed to using holistic admission for their entire undergraduate full-time applicant pool, and then streamlining the college application process for students choosing to apply to those colleges. The questions on the Common App include factors such as the home life of the student, academic achievements, standardized test scores and other information that colleges use to evaluate students for admission. For example, Brown University does not accept common app.