Educated Quest

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

He and his co-authors looked at data from nearly 167,000 domestic applicants to Harvard between fall 2009 and fall 2014. No less than 43 percent of accepted students decided to deposit, impressive for any university of any size. But the acceptance rate also dropped from a high of 30 percent in 2015-16 to 19 percent in 2021-22.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It is extremely difficult to get accepted to UCLA. The grade point average of people who get accepted to UCLA are in the highest of their class. People who successfully get into UCLA also tend to have impressive extracurricular activities and college applications essays. UCLA is the most applied to school in the country.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

No hanging out at the soda shop anymore: it’s all about AP tests, building an extracurricular resume, and preparing for college. Or perhaps you didn’t take full advantage of the extracurricular opportunities in high school, and you feel a need to get more engaged before heading off to college.

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Admissions.Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

By day you are an overloaded high school senior year who feels dominated by IB or AP course assignments, juggling the responsibilities that come with leading four time-sucking extracurricular activities, and cramming to get an A in every class for your first quarter report card. ’ Your only hope is the Supreme Court.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 30, 2023

A new category of colleges has emerged: the “Highly Rejective” have acceptance rates in the single digits. We’ll get to what “hooks” are and how they influence acceptances below, but first, it’s useful to understand how we got here, and why hooks impact admissions. Acceptance rates are viewed as an index of desirability.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2023

A 2009 study by Jeffrey Kaplan et al. Summer and winter programs can be somewhat inconvenient for premed students, as many individual programs do not fulfill global health degree time requirements and those that do ask you to commit to a full work schedule for weeks, leaving little time for MCAT study or other extracurricular activities.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 6, 2023

1500 characters) Why should AZCOM accept you into this year's class? A repeat of your AMCAS statement will not be acceptable. in their 2009 Lancet publication useful: “the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide”. 2,400 characters.)

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Definition: An extracurricular activity is any activity done outside of class. At schools like Stanford and Harvard, acceptance rates have plummeted to around 5 percent overall in recent years. However, this trend isn’t limited to just Ivy League acceptance rates or those of other private institutions. It can include arts (e.g.,

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 6, 2025

Student life Tend to have larger, more diverse student bodies with a wider range of extracurricular and social opportunities, including high-profile athletics. Amherst College (Amherst, MA) Acceptance rate : 10% Average GPA : 4.0 Bates College (Lewiston, ME) Acceptance rate : 13% Average GPA: 3.96 Jeffrey Wright. Maria Bamford.

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