The Coalition Application Colleges for 2016-17

When the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success first announced its presence to the world in September of 2015, it was a consortium of 80 colleges, which then ballooned to more than 90, but then some of those schools decided to hold off on using the new application platform this year. Are you confused yet? We are. No shame. It’s been more than a little complicated to figure out which schools will actually accept the coalition this year and which, like the University of Maryland, will require it. Luckily, the platform is finally open and signing up grants access to a list of all the schools using the Coalition for the 2016-17 application cycle. So, we signed up and scoped it out. Here are all 76 schools that will be using the Coalition this year. You’re welcome.

1. American University
2. Amherst College
3. Bowdoin College
4. Brown University
5. Bryn Mawr College
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Carleton College
8. Claremont McKenna College
9. Clemson University
10. Colby College
11. Colgate University
12. College of the Holy Cross
13. College of William and Mary
14. Colorado College
15. Columbia University in the City of New York
16. Cornell University
17. Davidson College
18. Duke University
19. Emory University
20. Florida State University
21. Franklin and Marshall College
22. Franklin W Olin College of Engineering
23. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
24. Hamilton College
25. Harvard University
26. Indiana University-Bloomington
27. James Madison University
28. Johns Hopkins University
29. Michigan State University
30. Middlebury College
31. North Carolina State University at Raleigh
32. Northeastern University
33. Northwestern University
34. Oberlin College
35. Ohio State University-Main Campus
36. Penn State
37. Pomona College
38. Purdue University-Main Campus
39. Reed College
40. Rice University
41. Rutgers University-New Brunswick
42. Skidmore College
43. Smith College
44. St Olaf College
45. Stanford University
46. SUNY at Binghamton
47. SUNY College at Geneseo
48. Swarthmore College
49. Texas A&M University-College Station
50. Tufts University
51. Union College
52. University of Chicago
53. University of Connecticut
54. University of Florida
55. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
56. University of Iowa
57. University of Maryland-College Park
58. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
59. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
60. University of Notre Dame
61. University of Pennsylvania
62. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
63. University of Rochester
64. University of South Carolina-Columbia
65. University of Vermont
66. University of Virginia-Main Campus
67. University of Washington-Seattle Campus
68. Vanderbilt University
69. Vassar College
70. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
71. Wake Forest University
72. Washington University in St. Louis
73. Wellesley College
74. Wesleyan University
75. Williams College
76. Yale University

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