Dealing With Multiple Items on page from a form – Design Principles

I am creating a form I have read lot of practice but haven't come to a conclusion can some one shed some light on this topic. I have a form and on this form I can add multiple items. For E.g Form Called Application as fields such as Name, Address and etc, when the user clicks the add button the application from the form will be group and can be view immediately.

My Problem

I need the group applications to be layout in a certain way.

One Method: Is that I have a button call "View Application" which shows a modal with the list of applications that were added by the user.

I am wondering if this method is scalable for a list of 50 application. For the user can edit that application from the same modal which pop out another modal. The first modal will be kill but if close goes back to the first modal.

Second is method above intrusive to the user.

Second Method: Is to have the user add the applications and display it in a table below where the user will have the ability to edit the added application using a modal.

The 2nd Method seems less atrocious but will create a scroll at the bottom due to the growth of the table. Then I guest the table could be paginated if you want to keep the UI looking clean.

Sorry I have no Mock Up shown but if you get the idea am trying to create then please can you discuss which you think is the better implementation.