Top Tier Admissions
It’s been another early application round with a record number of applications. New York University was smashed with about 75,000 applications, 12 percent more than last year. More students than ever before – roughly 11,000 – filed Early Decision applications with NYU. Northwestern received about 6 percent more Early Decision applications than last year, a […]
Greetings, We wanted our Top Tier Admissions community to be the first to know our exciting news. Maria Laskaris, former Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Dartmouth College, has joined our team and will be sharing her incredible insider perspective on Ivy League college admissions with our families. Maria will be working with a […]
We’re always delighted and thrilled when our students get into their school(s) of choice! The many college applicants who have worked with us here at Top Tier Admissions can be very enthusiastic about their Ivy League acceptances too, like this Application Boot Camp alum (getting into Yale) and her friends:
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 […]
We’ve been saying for years that admissions officers have about 5-18 minutes MAX to review an application. Every year parents and students are quite surprised to hear this. In years past the process has been that one officer typically does the review, then “pitches” the candidate to the full committee. As The Chronicle of Higher Education […]
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