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Admission Trends and Early Admission Results – Class of 2028

Berkeley² Academy

As a result, more and more students are applying under Early Decision and Early Action admissions plans. While early admissions plans often have higher acceptance rates than regular decision, the continuing rise in applicants (and early applicants), means these early rounds are growing more competitive as well.

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Ivy League Witnesses Unprecedented Rise in Early Applications

The Ivy Dean

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s early admissions cycle has set new records for the country’s most prestigious post-secondary schools. As anyone hoping to begin college in fall 2021 is likely aware, all schools with an early application program released their early acceptance decisions within the past few weeks.

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MIT: Regular Decision Acceptance Rate

Top Tier Admissions

MIT REGULAR DECISION ACCEPTANCE RATE For those considering applying early to MIT next year, it’s important to know that 12,563 students applied early to the MIT Class of 2028 and 661 were offered early admission for a slightly higher acceptance rate of 5.26%. Meanwhile, 8,052 applicants were deferred — 64.1%

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Stanford University: Early Acceptance Rate

Top Tier Admissions

Since 2018, the university has ceased disclosing acceptance rates in real time, instead waiting months after admissions decisions have been made to report publicly available data. Both decreased from the year prior when 49% of enrolled students submitted SAT scores and 23% submitted ACT scores.

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Class of 2026 sets early application records, while The Ivy Dean’s students see incredible admissions results

The Ivy Dean

Here at the Ivy Dean, there has been much cause for celebration recently: we helped our students to achieve phenomenal early acceptance results for the Class of 2026. While not surprising, these results are noteworthy given the current and unprecedented higher education climate.

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

BestColleges

Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights by Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), alleges the practice violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What's more, Students for Fair Admissions mentioned legacy admissions specifically in its complaint against Harvard. The complaint, filed with the U.S.

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How COVID-19 is accelerating overdue changes to college admissions

The Ivy Dean

Changes to standardized testing: Many colleges went test-optional this year, giving applicants the choice whether or not to include SAT or ACT scores. Changes in early acceptance rates: As I explained in my previous blog post , schools in the Ivy League received a record number of early admission applications this year.