Top Tier Admissions
This was quite a year in admissions for the Class of 2025, MIT had a 4% acceptance rate, Harvard deferred 80% of applicants who applied early to their regular round and Colgate University had 102% more applications than last year. Check here for all of our early data. REGULAR ROUND RESULTS *UPDATE: Check out our full […]
Another year for the record books, as top colleges and universities see their overall application volumes soar in this most unprecedented cycle. Among the eye-popping statistics we’ve seen, NYU tops 100,000 applications, Harvard’s pool grows by 57 percent, and Colgate receives double the number of applications as compared to last year. TEST-OPTIONAL = DRIVING FORCE […]
It’s here! What you’ve all been waiting for, Top Tier’s annual deep dive analysis into this year’s early admissions round. Let’s get started… Looking at the chart below, which of the following can you infer? More students apply early to a dream school and application volumes soar. Selectivity increases as admit rates plunge, especially when […]
Post by: Dr. Michele Hernandez We’ve had vigorous debates on this blog and with students and parents about the merits of early decision. As a brief primer, both early action and early decision have early November deadlines, but early action is NON binding (you do not have to say “yes”) while early decision is binding (you […]
PART 3: Building the Class The final installment in our three-part series that looks at how the admissions process will need to adapt this year due to COVID-19. Part one of our ‘Admissions in the Time of COVID-19’ series looked at how COVID-19 has disrupted the traditional markers of achievement that admissions officers have historically relied […]
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