Top Tier Admissions
You did it! You submitted your Early Decision and Early Action applications, and you are now resisting the urge to refresh your email as you await good news. For many students, the next few weeks will be filled with dreams of acceptance and worries about rejection. But there is another response you might receive from […]
Although the November 1st early admissions deadlines are behind us, most colleges have yet to publicly announce updates on the number of early applications they received. Application results shared by two top universities—the University of Georgia and Yale University—offer some preliminary insight into how this year’s application numbers might trend. Here’s what we know so […]
For those with a top-choice Early Decision and/or Early Action school, you’ve hit “submit” or are poised to do so before the next deadline. Congrats! The college admissions landscape has changed dramatically over the years but two things are consistent: 1. Odds still go WAY up at most schools in the early rounds and 2. […]
As summer winds down and senior year approaches, early round application deadlines are coming up fast. School lists and application strategies are no longer hypothetical scenarios, but rather concrete plans to be executed in the coming weeks. If you’re still a bit hazy on all the different early options, we’re here to define them for […]
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 […]
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