People’s prior convictions should not be held against them in their pursuit of higher learning, and beginning next year, the Common Application – an online form that enables students to apply to the 800 or so colleges that use it – will no longer ask students about their criminal pasts. However, more must be done, as argued by Stanley Andrisse, a formerly incarcerated person who now is an endocrinologist and professor at two world-renowned medical institutions – Johns Hopkins Medicine and Howard University College of Medicine.