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See Middlebury’s official announcement below: Middlebury College continues to attract a strong pool of applicants from across the United States and around the world. For the third consecutive year, the College has broken its previous record with 13,297 total applications for the Class of 2027, up about two percent over last year’s total of 13,028. […]
Coined in 1985 by former Yale admissions officer Richard Moll, the term “Public Ivy” refers to state universities that offer an exceptional education—at a fraction of the Ivy league price to in-state students—and earmark a limited number of seats to out-of-state students. With world-class faculty, top-notch honors programs, and cutting-edge research opportunities, the following universities […]
Harvard, the oldest of the Ivies, is also the most competitive, with an overall acceptance rate sitting at a mere 3.19% last spring, the lowest rate in the school’s history. A staggering 61,220 students applied in the 2021-22 application cycle, a significant rise from the 57,435 who applied in the 2020-21 cycle, which represented a […]
In spring of 2022 Princeton announced that, for the first time in recent history, they would not be releasing admissions data on the pool of applicants to the Class of 2026. Instead, they provided an info sheet on the University website that focuses on the matriculating class. What we know: a total of 1,500 students […]
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