Top Tier Admissions
After a dizzying year, the world of college admissions continues to change as do early admissions trends. Test-optional admissions policies continue to expand and Harvard’s decision to continue with test optional admissions for the next four years will likely spur peer institutions to follow suit. Changing student demographics and greater emphasis on equity and access […]
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 […]
Most students and parents know that Ivy League schools are competitive long before they begin working with us. What they don’t always realize is that these days, it’s not just the most elite universities that have incredibly selective admit rates. In fact—thanks to the ever-increasing number of impressive college applicants—schools that might have seemed like […]
With the November 1st early admissions deadlines behind us, Jenny Rickard, President and CEO of the Common Application, offered preliminary insight into this year’s application trends. Additionally, Yale University has just released their early application numbers for the Class of 2026. Here’s a sneak peek at these trends and insight into what they likely indicate. […]
Stanford recently shared some admissions statistics for the Class of 2025. Big picture, Stanford received 55,471 applications for admission last year and admitted 2,190 students, a meager 3.9 percent of its applicants. Interesting to note that Stanford was not the only top school with a sub-4 percent overall admit rate last year. In fact, Columbia, […]
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