Colleges And Universities Accepting The Coalition App This Fall

The wait is finally over!

It was announced recently that 55 of the 94 member colleges and universities of the Coalition for College Access, Affordability and Success will be accepting applications via the Coalition platform this fall. Some of these schools, such as Yale University, will accept the Coalition application as well as other current application platforms, such as the Common App, the Universal College Application and Questbridge National College Match Application. Other Schools, such as the University of Maryland – College Park, will only be using the Coalition platform.

The other 37 additional member schools, including Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth, have chosen to hold off for a year and will not accept the Coalition application until 2017/18. MIT and Georgetown remain among the schools that will continue to use their own application platforms. MIT’s Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill stated that MIT likes the flexibility that their own application gives them, while Georgetown’s Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon cited concerns that the Coalition platform will actually create an application process that is “more complicated and less helpful for low-income students,” the very group that the Coalition claims to be supporting.

More than ever, it will be important for 2016/17 applicants to begin planning early and find out which application platforms the schools they are interested in are accepting.

The (55) schools planning to accept the Coalition application for 2016/2017 are:

Some of the (36) additional member schools that will accept the Coalition application for 2017/2018 include:

Read more from our team about the Coalition Application here.