1. Welcome! (Annie)

2. The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success
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colleges and universities working together to improve the college application process
After 98% approval of new eligibility criteria, the Coalition invited newly eligible schools to join in January of this year. At this point, the Coalition represents 122 college and university members.
The Coalition is truly a Membership-driven organization. Devising the membership eligibility criteria and wide approval of that criteria has led to the changes. We are excited about the positive impact on access that our expanded criteria will create for students
WHY DID WE CHANGE?
Pillars of organization: access, affordability, success.
Geographic access
Offering students a positive signal; College Score Card.

3. Supporting Students Increase Early Awareness
Value of the Coalition Fee Waiver
Consider the Locker
Coalition Colleges and Scorecard
DEMO FROM HERE
Opportunity to begin conversations with students earlier in the process and decrease intimidation that strikes at the onset of the application process.
Scorecard and Coalition colleges—culled list of colleges that have demonstrated a commitment to access, affordability, and success.
Fee waiver: simple, universal, eliminated that micro-barrier of applying.
Consider the Locker: graded essays that may prove important, collection of key projects that represent a student’s success, achievement, growth, personal writing prompts, career exploration course content, etc.

4. The Profile Forms the foundation of the application
Increasing Early Awareness:
Conversation Starters:
Didn’t realize you could take college classes as a high school student
Early indication of fee waiver
Parent’s Education Status outside of the application itself (decreases panic/pressure for first generation students)
Keeping Track of the Components that Matter

5. Landing Pages

6. Profile to Application

7. Locker and Collaboration Space
The Coalition offers students the ability to connect with high school counselors, teachers, parents, community leaders, and other mentors on the same platform where they will prepare for and apply to college.
THE LOCKER
COLLABORATION SPACE
The Coalition’s Collaboration Space provides students an avenue to share documents, whether related to the college application process or not, with mentors in their life for feedback.
Collaborate and share application materials of your choice with counselors, teachers, and/or mentors.

8. 26% Applications filed using a Coalition Fee Waiver
A universal fee waiver allowing students to apply to college barrier free.
26% Applications filed using a Coalition Fee Waiver
Explain fee waiver; talk through the numbers; University of Florida (153% increase). There are greater opportunities for the fee wavier to positively impact students. And, a key part of that is increased awareness. Hopefully, that overview of this year’s data was helpful, now, I’d like to talk about the Coalition’s access initiatives and outreach efforts.

9. Coalition Platform Usage
10,355,893 page views
123,965 accounts created
58% applying for financial aid
20% first generation college students
Rate of engagement—positive indication that the site is a highly usable resource.
In our initial year, the platform attracted….
Representation of students mirrors national context.

10. Coalition Application Usage
39,000 students submitted 47,000 applications to all 46 member colleges that accepted applications.
American University Amherst College Bowdoin College Caltech Carleton College Claremont McKenna Clemson University Colby College Colgate University College of the Holy Cross Columbia University Davidson College Denison University Duke University Emory University
Hamilton College Harvard University Indiana University - Bloomington Johns Hopkins North Carolina State University at Raleigh Northeastern University Northwestern University Pomona College Purdue University Reed College Rice University Rutgers University St Olaf College
University of Notre Dame University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of South Carolina Vanderbilt University Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Williams College Yale University
Stanford University SUNY- Binghamton University SUNY- Geneseo Swarthmore College Texas A&M Tufts University Union College University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Florida University of Iowa
About one application per student. All 47 members.

11. Reflections from a Member College
Why the Coalition for Students?
Why the Coalition for the Profession?
Why the Coalition for Smith?

12. Reflections from a Member College
For the Profession
Competition is healthy
Can we do a better job of leveling the playing field?
Can we change the admission process for the better?
For Smith College
Shared outreach to diverse audiences
Meet full need and graduate, not need-blind
Partnership with diverse public and private institutions

13. Access and Assessment Committee
The Committee on Access and Assessment will focus on methods to improve access, broaden the reach of the Coalition within target populations, and assess the impacts of such efforts.
Provide feedback on, and in collaboration with Communications Committee and Coalition Counselor Community, develop material for online content aimed at 9th and 10th grade students for guidance outreach.
Provide feedback on, and develop and recommend programming and activities in support of target populations that would increase access.
Provide feedback on, and develop and recommend criteria and models for measuring the success of the Coalition.  Seek external funding support for such efforts, and advise Board of Directors on research design of such efforts.
Suggest concrete methods to improve buy-in for the Collaboration Space and Locker among target audiences. 
Defining concretely how goals involving access will be fulfilled.

14. Counselor Resources