Top Tier Admissions
Cornell joins the rest of the Ivy ranks in historically low acceptance rates for the Class of 2025. With a 30% surge in application volume over last year’s pool of 51,500, Cornell received roughly 67,000 applications this past cycle and admitted 5,836—that makes for an 8.7% acceptance rate, down from 10.7% last year. For perspective, […]
With Class of 2024 results now coming in on the early admissions round at top colleges and universities around the country, here is our expert assessment on what we’ve learned thus far. We’ll continue to update our information as more schools release their information. UPS AND DOWNS Unlike past years that saw big gains in […]
Twenty years ago, admissions to top colleges was much more formulaic. Applicant pools were smaller, more homogeneous, and more self-selecting. Each college had its own application that students filled out by hand. Most high schools calculated and reported class rank. “Merit” was pretty much defined as high class rank and high test scores, with some […]
This has been an unbelievable year in college admissions. We’ve worked with students and families for over 15 years and nothing stays the same, we promise that. The sheer number of applications is rising. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Pomona, Stanford, U Penn, Emory and Yale are just some of the schools who report the largest […]
–post by Dr. Kristen Willmott The November 1 early deadline has come and gone. Our seniors are done with their college applications and essays often before senior year even starts, as we want them to focus on their courses this fall, not essay writing at 10pm on a Friday. We realize, however, that many seniors […]
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