Top Tier Admissions
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), located in the heart of West Philadelphia, ranks #7 in a four-way tie between Penn, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and Northwestern University, according to U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Colleges. Penn’s rank represents a three-spot jump from its 2025 rank at #10. The Class of 2030 Applicant […]
Princeton University, a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey, released regular decision results for the Class of 2030 on March 26, 2026, according to the Daily Princetonian. Consistent with its policy since 2021, the University notified admitted students but did not release application or admit totals. Those official Class of 2030 figures will be […]
Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas, anchors undergraduate life in a residential college system that houses students for all four years and maintains a roughly 6-to-1 student-faculty ratio. The university admitted 2,984 of 38,603 applicants to the Class of 2030 for an overall acceptance rate of 7.7%, according to the Rice Thresher. […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ranks No. 2 among national universities and No. 1 for undergraduate engineering, according to U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings. For the Class of 2030, MIT admitted 1,299 of 28,349 applicants for an overall acceptance rate of 4.58% — a slight […]
Georgia Tech, a public research university in Atlanta long considered both a “New Ivy” and a “Public Ivy,” admitted 8,715 students to the Class of 2030 from a record 67,985 first-year applications—an overall acceptance rate of 12.8%, according to the university’s Office of Undergraduate Admission. That figure caps a five-year stretch in which Georgia Tech’s […]
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