Top Tier Admissions
Harvard slipping down the Forbes college rankings? Impossible! Yet this year’s list of America’s Top Colleges, published in late August, confirms the shocking news: Harvard is no longer in the top ten. After Forbes redesigned its metrics in 2021, a number of Ivy League schools dropped in their rankings. The same can be said for […]
Picture this: It’s 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon in early spring. After your morning French class and writing seminar, you meet a friend for a walk around Central Park. On your way back to your dorm room, you stop by a new café for an iced coffee and then window shop along Madison Avenue. This […]
Record-low acceptance rates and record-high application numbers grab all the headlines, but who was actually admitted to the Class of 2026? And how do these accepted students reflect a college or university’s mission? Now that the dust has settled and colleges have released more information about their incoming classes, we can understand what mattered most […]
Regular Decision acceptance rates continue to plummet at top schools; some see application volume level off. March went out like a lion. Over the past two weeks, highly selective colleges and universities released decisions and shared data on their shockingly large applicant pools. From university press releases to college student newspapers, headlines pointed to record-low […]
For high school seniors and admissions officers, “March Madness” is more than just a storied basketball tournament. This month, seniors will begin to learn the outcome of applications they submitted as early as last fall. For the lucky ones, virtual “fat envelopes” at dream schools signal the end of the madness. Some may find themselves […]
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