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The Common Application, the standardized application form used by more than 400 colleges, will ask applicants about their military status for the first time when it launches Aug. 1. Like its questions about ethnicity, the form’s question about “U.S. Armed Forces veteran status” will be optional.

The application also added questions about marital status and children. These new questions will help institutions that enroll large numbers of nontraditional students and veterans, Rob Killion, executive director of the Common Application Inc., told The Chronicle of Higher Education. “This is just more data to help colleges understand who students are and how they got there,” he said.