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Georgetown University, an “Ivy Plus” institution in Washington D.C., is the oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Georgetown’s Class of 2029 had an acceptance rate of 12% overall with around 26,800 applications in total. Georgetown’s early action acceptance rate was 11%. Starting in the Fall 2026 application cycle, Georgetown University will join the Common […]
Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, is consistently ranked among the top 10 national universities. Duke, long considered one of the “Southern Ivies,” received 53,223 Regular Decision applications for the Class of 2029, an all-time high, and admitted 1,953 students, for a record-low 3.67% RD acceptance rate, according to The Duke Chronicle. DUKE ACCEPTANCE […]
Middlebury College, a small liberal arts college in Vermont, has an average class size of just 16 and is well known for its foreign language programs. Middlebury saw a 6% drop in application volume to the Class of 2029 compared to last year. MIDDLEBURY ACCEPTANCE RATE: CLASS OF 2029 Middlebury’s overall acceptance rate increased to […]
New York University, a private school founded in 1831, currently enrolls over 29,000 undergraduate students, including the largest number of international students at any American university. In addition to its flagship campus in New York City, NYU has degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai and sends the largest number of students to study abroad. […]
Villanova University, a private Catholic university located about 12 miles outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received a record 26,306 total applicants to its Class of 2029. Villanova was in the news recently as the alma mater of the newly selected Pope Leo XIV, leading some to note a perceived “Pope bump” in the university’s visibility and […]
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