Am I allowed to have both a common app and coalition app account, or can I only have one? Also, which one is most recommended when applying to college?
You can definitely have both. I’m pretty sure any individual school in the coalition will say you have to pick just one of the formats for sending them an application. But you can apply to some schools with coalition and others with common.
I haven’t heard anyone say that the schools really care. If you’re applying to more than one or two coalition schools, and the procedure works better for you, it may be worth a shot to go that way for some schools. But it’s definitely not required if it doesn’t help you present things or manage your applications better.
I’ll second that colleges don’t care how you apply as long as they accept either method.
My concern with the Coalition App for my D last year was that her High School used Naviance to transmit necessary documents. The Common App has a tie in with Naviance and at the time the Coalition App did not. Not sure if that has changed. I just didn’t want the added hassle of working outside Naviance if not needed to do so.
Did anyone figure this out? I have the same situation. I am out of 20 apps on common app and I want to do 1 more app. I am also afraid of messing with the common app naviance connection.