Top Tier Admissions
The University of Virginia (UVA), a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia, informally dubbed as one of the “New Ivies” or “Public Ivies,” is rising in popularity. UVA offered admission to 1,282 students through Early Decision this year, from a record-breaking pool of 4,971 applicants. UVA ACCEPTANCE RATE: EARLY TRENDS UVA’s early in-state acceptance rate for […]
Williams College, a small private liberal arts school in Williamstown, Massachusetts was once again ranked the #1 Best Liberal Arts College in the nation by the 2025 U.S. News & World Report college rankings. WILLIAMS COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE RATE Williams received 964 applications to its Early Decision program and admitted 257 of them to the Class […]
The University of Notre Dame, a private Catholic school in South Bend, Indiana, is ranked #20 of National Universities according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report. The university received a record 12,917 Restrictive Early Action applications to the Class of 2029. In turn, the acceptance rate for its early round hit a record […]
Brown University, an Ivy league institution in Providence, Rhode Island, saw its Early Decision acceptance rate for the Class of 2029 rise to the highest its been in over 5 years. Brown received 5,048 early applications and accepted 906 applicants for an acceptance rate of 17.95%, according to the Brown Daily Herald. BROWN UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCE […]
The early admissions season, which stretches from mid-October to mid-February and includes two rounds of binding Early Decision and one round of non-binding Early Action, is shaping up to be one for the record books. Although more top private universities are choosing the path of less transparency regarding their EA or ED application results, we’ve […]
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