Has anyone that applied to GT through the Coalition App received any notification from the school that their application was received and the information needed to set up an account t on their portal? D applied 9/25 and has yet to receive any follow-up emails. She’s checked her Spam folder and nothing is there.
I called the admissions office last Monday and was told that since this is the first year they were accepting the Coalition app they are waiting to accept the applications. I’m really unhappy about this since we have no way of verifying that they have everything they need for EA at this point and the deadline is a week away. They certainly didn’t have a problem immediately accepting the $75 application fee.
My son also applied EA through coalition and hasn’t received any confirmation from the school. We did print out the confirmation page from the coalition app.
I called back last week and was told that they would not be accepting the applications until after the 15th (i.e. today), but that any applications marked as submitted through the Coalition before the 15th would be fine for EA. I’m not thrilled about the lack of progress and information. At the very least GT could have sent an acknowledgement that the application was queued and information on when we would be able to check the status. I still feel that I will need to confirm receipt and make sure that recommendation letters and other requirements are in.
Yeah, I’m not thrilled with the lack of progress and information provided using the Coalition App for two other schools (not GTech).
The UMD website which uses the Coalition App exclusively says “It is the applicant’s responsibility to confirm receipt of all application materials”. With no update within the Coalition App, do they really want thousands of kids calling and emailing admissions to check the status of application items??
Within the Common App, you can check the “Recommenders and FERPA” tab for each school and see what’s been accepted and the date received.
My son applied to GTech using the Common App and within a day or so, he received emails on setting up a login to their Admissions Portal.
The Coalition App says that it takes 2 weeks to post updates (???).
We requested SAT I/IIs on 8/31 and I just saw an Application Tracker update THIS MORNING that test scores and his LORs were received.
The Application Tracker says the Application submitted date/time stamp on 10/30/17 - right below that is Application Status of “not received” LOL
Transcript and Counselor Recommendation was sent on 9/19 - CoalApp still says Received Date of “blank”
I guess the Coalition App schools are getting lots of emails and phone calls.
Using the Common App however:
My son had LORs that were sent 10/31 and 11/1 via Naviance/Common App and this was immediately updated within the Common App. He had a LOR straggler for 11/1 that he was going to go see today, but we checked the Common App statuses before he left for school and the submissions were updated immediately, not kidding. Yay!