SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 26, 2024

What should I write about to get myself off the waitlist and accepted by the college? What should you do if you’re on a college waitlist? Harvard got 42% more applicants in the 2020-2021 cycle than 2019-2020. And that means every college’s waitlist is INCREDIBLY long this year! Make your writing as specific as you can!

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition to being two of their toughest academic years, your child will be tasked with maximizing their standardized test scores, continuing to pursue high-impact extracurricular activities, securing recommendation letters, and working on their college applications by writing essay upon essay. Rather than include general advice (e.g., “Put

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Berkeley² Academy

APRIL 20, 2024

college applications! Below are six basic steps rising seniors can take to prepare for their upcoming college applications. Regional Admissions Officers will be comparing your academic profile to other students in your high school and area when reviewing applications. Study, study, study for upcoming standardized tests!

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2023

There’s so much advice floating around about waitlists and letters of continued interest. Sometimes you can tell when the advice is being dispensed from someone who hasn’t ever sat on the admissions side of the table. But we’ve sat on that side of the table, and our goal is always to teach you how to think like an admissions officer.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

All Fall 2025 freshman applicants must submit an official SAT or ACT directly from the testing agency to be eligible for admission. Applicants do not need to submit the writing section. Introduction of a waitlist for the first time in many years. As of writing, UT has not updated it’s admissions page yet.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 15, 2024

UT AUSTIN: STANDARDIZED TESTING REQUIRED After four years of test-optional admissions for undergraduate admissions, the University of Texas at Austin will once again require standardized testing scores , beginning with applications for the Fall 2025 semester. SAT Tutoring Expert one-on-one guidance to boost your score.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

One of the worst parts about college admissions is that tens of thousands of applicants will neither be admitted nor denied outright. Most early applicants are deferred until the regular admissions deadline when their application is considered among all other applicants. But hey, better than an outright rejection, right?

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 13, 2020

By now, application decisions should be rolling in to your inbox/mailbox. What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? Why do colleges have waitlists? Essentially, you can reply to the waitlist offer one of two ways: 1. “No, But what if your “final” decision isn’t so final? No, thanks!”

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Elite Open School

DECEMBER 21, 2020

After all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into our college applications, we can’t help but dream of that special moment when we receive our coveted letters of acceptance. there are more potential outcomes to our applications than either outright acceptances or rejections. What does it mean to be deferred or waitlisted to college?

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 14, 2019

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE By now, application decisions should be rolling in to your inbox/mailbox. What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? Why do colleges have waitlists? So – I'm on the waitlist. But what if your “final” decision isn’t so final? No, thanks!”

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

Part 3: This Process Is Opaque In the first part of this series, we discussed the role that the rise of test-optional (it is now optional to submit standardized test scores, SAT or ACT, at most colleges) has played in opening up the applicant pool to highly selective colleges. So, should you even be trying to test?

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 22, 2024

The elite college admissions landscape has never been more competitive (or more confusing for applicants to navigate). Meanwhile, 8,052 applicants were deferred — 64.1% of applicants. “I Peterson said MIT placed a “modest number” of applicants on their waitlist. Of the deferred students last year, only 1.8%

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 12, 2024

HARVARD ACCEPTANCE RATE: HIGHEST IN FOUR YEARS AS APPLICATION NUMBERS FALL Harvard accepted 3.59% of Regular Decision applicants to its Class of 2028, or 1,245 students. They will join the 692 applicants accepted during the Early Action cycle.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Look at the college’s website Colleges and universities maintain comprehensive websites that contain information for staff, faculty, and students, in addition to providing information for prospective applicants. That is the person who may read your application first, and who is most interested in seeing your application.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Among applications submitted, only 13% were admitted. Overall, fewer than 800 first-year applicants were offered admission via Early Decision and fewer than 400 via Early Decision II, while nearly 2,400 were offered admission via Early Action and over 400 via Regular Decision. All decisions have now been released.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 26, 2024

This year’s 3.85% overall acceptance rate is slightly down from last year’s 4%, when Columbia admitted 2,285 applicants from 57,126 applications. During the Early Decision round, Columbia received 6,009 applications and accepted 750 students for an ED acceptance rate of 12.48%.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

APRIL 26, 2021

JUNIOR YEAR January-April Schedule and sit for standardized ACT or SAT tests, if the student is taking them. You will need it for summer jobs, and it can be helpful when meeting with people about your college applications. May Study for and take SAT or ACT tests, if offered. Make a list of each school’s application deadlines.

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Berkeley² Academy

MARCH 15, 2024

Some ,, big changes are coming to UT Austin admissions in 2024—today we’ll go over important details regarding their standardized testing policy, essay prompts, application deadlines, and more. Testing Policy This week, UT Austin announced its reinstatement of mandatory standardized testing as part of the undergraduate application.

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tulane’s Gibson Hall Tulane will release Early Decision II (EDII) notifications to first-year applicants on Monday, February 5, at 5:00 p.m. and an average standardized test score – for those who submitted a score at all – of 1450 on the SAT and 32 on the ACT.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 11, 2023

for Early Decision 1) are reporting increasing numbers of early round applications. It was once customary for schools to defer most ED applicants who were not successful in the first round for a second chance at consideration in regular decision (RD). Schools such as UVA (up 4.4% This makes early round outright denials more common.

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Ivy Central

JUNE 13, 2023

Admissions Acceptance Rate Williams College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round and admitted 858 students. Applicants who accept their offers of admission will join the 255 incoming students admitted through the early decision program in December to form the Class of 2027.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 26, 2024

For many applicants, it represents the final verdict on their college aspirations, as they eagerly check their email or log into admission portals to discover whether they’ve been accepted, denied, or waitlisted. Deferral/Denial and Waitlist Analysis & Guidance Launch an action plan to maximize your chances of admission.

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The Ivy Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Moreover, the school introduced and has extended its test optional policy for first-year and transfer applicants for the next three admission cycles applying in the falls of 2023, 2024, and 2025. As such, applicants may submit an ACT or SAT score only if they wish to do so.

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The Ivy Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

In keeping with national trends, Cornell University has extended its two-year suspension of SAT/ACT requirements to 2023 and 2024 applicants. However, this is a significant decrease from its 14% acceptance rate in 2016.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

While approximately 78%, of admission offers at Emory are made Regular Decision and roughly 22% of offers are extended to Early Decision applicants, that doesn’t mean an applicant’s statistical odds of getting into Emory Regular Decision are better than getting in Early Decision.

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StandOut College Prep

APRIL 10, 2023

From understanding acceptance rates and admissions criteria to exploring financial aid options and crafting a well-rounded application, we’ll cover everything you need to know to maximize your chances of becoming a proud member of the MIT family.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Harvard average ACT score: 34 25th percentile: 33 75th percentile: 35 Harvard average SAT score: 1520 25th percentile: 1460 75th percentile: 1580 It should be noted that ACT and SAT tests are now optional at Harvard. Submitting them is entirely up to the applicant. tuition, room, board, and fees) ranges from $82,950-$87,450.

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CTK College Coach

MARCH 17, 2022

You may already have some acceptances in hand from rolling, early action, or early decision applications, or you may be waiting for your very first acceptance as colleges release their decisions for the regular round. Many schools require a tuition deposit, food service contract, and housing application and deposit ASAP.

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BestColleges

MARCH 16, 2023

Users must sign up for the waitlist for access. Score: 149/180 (40th percentile) Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Evidence-Based Reading & Writing GPT-4 Score: 710/800 (93rd percentile) GPT-3.5 The model still makes simple factual and logical reasoning errors. OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Boston University is a premier educational institution that attracts over 80,000 applicants every year. For the Fall 2022 entrance, BU received 5,810 transfer applications; 614 of these applicants eventually matriculated. But in general, Boston would prefer to see AP Chemistry, AP Biology, or AP Calculus from a STEM applicant.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Why am I re-taking the SAT/ACT? Because if I get 20 points higher I’ll be able to beat my brother’s score to rub it in his face—capture! Some schools require a transcript, test scores, and a completed application with supplements to count as an app. Beware of value capture. What are you chasing—the grade or the preparation?

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Admissions Mom

APRIL 13, 2023

I keep seeing tons and tons — and tons — of posts with this school or that school, about negotiating financial aid, and looking for colleges that might still be accepting applications. So, take your application decisions, look at yourself, and take a deep breath. You might have to choose between schools.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In fact, last year our denied SAT average was over 1400–the top 5% of global test takers. If you are applying to a number of schools with admit rates of 1 out of 4 or less, expect turbulence along the way, including deferral and waitlist decision. Do I think you are smart? Absolutely! After all, you are reading this blog.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I know those seniors who applied early action back in November may feel like it has been FOREVER since you submitted those applications, and the waiting game is killing you, but for most seniors who applied regular decision , you have several weeks more until you have final decisions from colleges. And the cycle continues.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Instead, they ask applicants to approach their application by “simply being yourself and writing in your own voice.” It’s neither required nor recommended for applicants to take the SAT or ACT. Among the class of 2024, 41 percent submitted SAT scores and 36 percent submitted ACT scores.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From years of helping students navigate MIT’s application and essay questions, we’ve put together key tips for how to get into MIT, including how your child can write standout essays to earn a place there. MIT application requirements MIT does not use Common App, Coalition App, or the Universal College Application.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I looked forward to those meetings the way you look forward to taking an SAT- that is to say- not at all. Deferrals- and ultimately waitlist decisions- are part of the process. See, I was admitted to/ got a scholarship from (insert supposedly better college here), so I’d like you to re-review my application.”

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