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What’s YOUR Why? College Admissions Edition

At my daughter’s middle school, our principal has a wonderful catchphrase that is repeated often and hangs on the marquee in front of school. The marquee holds three simple yet powerful words posing this daily question to students and adults alike… “WHAT’S YOUR WHY?” TOP TIER’S ‘WHY’ Here at Top Tier Admissions our ‘WHY’ has […]

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Early Round (and Beyond): Ivy League and College Admissions Insights

With early round college admissions decisions releasing daily and regular decision deadlines looming, we want to ensure our readers are covered with an action plan, whether you’ve not yet applied, were deferred, denied or accepted. It’s always been our goal to make admissions more transparent to ease the stress for families by sharing our “behind […]

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Colleges Without Supplemental Essays: 2021

With many COVID-fallout related test-optional policies remaining in place for the current application cycle, as suspected, applications will be up and the early round pools will likely be flooded (again). University of Virginia is one such school that retained their test-optional policy for Fall 2022 and Fall 2023. According to UVA’s Associate Dean of Admissions, […]

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Class of 2026: Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates *Live Updates

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr Over the last two years, the college admissions world has seen myriad changes. Subject tests abandoned, lack of testing opportunities for students, many colleges and universities adjusting their testing requirements due to COVID-19 and the fallout from the pandemic, to now […]

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Early Decision and Early Action Deadlines

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, having a wise early decision (ED) strategy is KEY and affords students, with few exceptions, the best possible admissions odds. DATA SPEAKS  In college admissions, data is king in a variety of ways, none more so than early round admissions statistics. These high percentage admit rates […]

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