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When they first announced the new Coalition application to compete with the Common Application, we collectively sighed, thinking that we had just gotten used the the CommonApp and the last thing anyone needed was a new application to muddy the waters. All the hype about lockers and a push for students to start their applications as early as freshmen in high school got us worried that students would feel compelled to think about their applications before they were ready.
We've since had a chance to play around with the new Coalition application and thankfully, it's not that big a deal and it will actually make applying to a large number of state schools easier for students. Yes, students can start their application early and can add things to their "locker" (which is really just a cloud based depository for documents and media). But at the end of the day, the application itself is intuitive and does not seem daunting.
If the new application platform was not enough change to digest, future applicants must also contend with the new SAT. Again, early feedback suggests that the changes are manageable. The scoring, however will take some interpretation.
Finally, Abby attended the IECA Conference earlier this month in Boston and put together some themes that she heard emerge from the conference.
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