Where are you getting that information, @Karenk6? It is possibly true for some schools, but not for “most public colleges”.
This will just lead to more and more groomed kids as opposed to genuine kids. So the colleges are saying we’ll give you the tools to be more groomed as opposed to we are going to work at accepting more genuine kids.
I’m very nervous about being the test tube babies for the Coalition App (read: New SAT).
If I have no choice (U of Florida) I’ll play along. But I don’t have a good feeling about this.
What the freak is genuine? Some kid who only navel gazes because it’s his “passion?” Or some kid who decides, eg, I want to be a doc, I’ll involve myself in the related academics and hs ECs, will get some addl exposure/involvement in the health arena? Or whatever interest it is.
What’s wrong with some grooming, some search for awareness and then planning and following through?
Of course there are superficial kids who only do X and Y to look good. That doesn’t make doing X and Y patently padding, for all the rest.
re #83 I’m not sure of your point. Obviously people are different and what is grooming for one child is genuine for another.
This is esoteric only for the next couple of months. There will be MANY forced to use it for this year’s college app because some state schools will use it as their primary application vehicle.
I have sent it to 10 friends of mine who have never been on CC and anyone who looks out for greater good should do the same since it helps someone just starting out high school or finishing 9th grade a lot more than those who are applying this cycle.
My daughter had applied to a few State schools OOS along with UTexas which needs to use Apply Texas at the moment. If she she were reapplying this year and chose A&M for primary backup in State, she could have essentially reduced it to 3 separate apps instead of 6 or 7 she filled out. It is interesting to see so many State schools in the list, many of which are not on common app.
Some people use this to “create” a resume and some people will use it to “post” what the students do. It happens all the time in all the fields, it’s upto the user how he wants to use the tool.
I went through the whole web site, including those videos and did not see any thing negatives about it, as other poster did. If you do not want to apply for those listed schools in the Coalition, you can use it as a tool for resume building.