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The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success
What is the Coalition?
The Coalition represents more than 100 American colleges and universities that share “a commitment to make college affordable and accessible for students from diverse backgrounds, and for students to be successful in completing their education.” Members of the Coalition “include a diverse group of public universities that have affordable tuition along with need-based financial aid for in-state residents, and private colleges and universities that provide sufficient financial aid to meet the full, demonstrated financial need of every domestic student they admit.”
What does the Coalition do?
The Coalition provides tools designed to assist students prepare to apply to four-year colleges. It also created a new undergraduate admissions application that some, but not all, Coalition members will use in addition to their own applications.
Is the Coalition Application something
I or my child will need to use?
Unless the college only accepts the Coalition Application, we recommend that our students use the Common Application, or colleges’ institutional applications.
For schools that use both the Common Application and the Coalition Application, is there an advantage to using one platform over the other?
No. Just as all US colleges and universities accept both the SAT or ACT, institutions do not prefer one application system over the other.
The Coalition's Virtual College Locker is:
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A site for students to securely and privately store classwork, resumes, journals, and notes.
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Completely separate from the Coalition Application.
The Virtual College Locker is not:
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Something that admissions officers will ever have access to. It’s simply an organizational tool for students.
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A college application.
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Required for admission to any Coalition school.
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A platform for colleges and universities to gauge demonstrated interest in a college. As stated above, admissions offices cannot view the activities of students using the Virtual College Locker