Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 15, 2023

I have been overcommitted in the last few weeks. Ironically, while the audience sizes, venue locations, and Zoom formats have varied, the closing question has been ubiquitous: “What is one last thing you would like to say to parents or students?” No, you don’t always get into your first choice. but a magic wand?

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

? Hello, beautiful seniors and other applicants. Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! Often colleges will call you about a waitlist offer before they email you or text you, so they need to be able to reach you. Don’t check it obsessively.

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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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Strategic College Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Road that says success in the asphalt We’ve been in the college planning and admissions business for about 25 years now, and we are so passionate about helping students with their educational goals and helping them earn acceptances to great colleges, year after year. Now what does a growth mindset mean for students ? Growth mindset.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

My wife has celiac disease. While many people do not know exactly what that is, they have at least heard of “gluten” and are familiar with the GF or grain symbol on food labels in the grocery store or at restaurants. Along with my staff, we have written extensively in the past about “what colleges are looking for.”

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Simply Admissions

MAY 17, 2022

If you’ve been part of the Simply Admissions community for a while, you may have seen our 2020-2021 admissions season M&M. Northeastern, which saw about a 20% increase in applications, jumped from an 18% acceptance rate to a 6.7% 1 Five University of California campuses saw over 100,000 applications this year.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Recently, someone asked me what has changed at Georgia Tech since I started in the early 2000s. Our application count was lower, our admit rate was higher, and as a result our review process, admission timeline, and staff structure all looked radically different than today. What are your admission requirements?

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You may not have been following Georgia Tech football in recent years. Suffice it to say, it’s been rough. If you are a senior, my hope is you will also play to win versus playing not to lose in college admission and your final year of high school as well. Here’s what that looks like. Trust yourself.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I appreciate Dr. Nguyen providing well- researched phrasing to what I tried to articulate with fewer citations (but more puns) in my blog : “What are you Strava-ing for?”, Lately, I’ve been coming back and checking to see my pace, achievements, and who else I know has run those segments. Why am I doing this?

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the 2021-2022 application cycle , 14,707 applicants vied for those 400ish spots. It’s a less-than-simple math equation, trying to guess what the yield rate will be — and any students accepted off of the waitlist are a result of that yield guess being off. However, Swarthmore has actively used the waitlist in the past.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

You have to do things well to impress admissions committees, especially to get accepted to the best dental programs. Therefore, efficiency is key during your undergraduate years, and perhaps beyond. But what if your peers are approaching things the wrong way? WE HAVE OVER A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE TO HELP YOU DO JUST THAT.

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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. Don’t bottle up your emotions. Recognize that the admissions decision is ultimately out of your control.

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Discovery College Consulting

JUNE 27, 2023

The remaining episodes contain several lessons about what to do and perhaps more importantly, what not to do during the college admissions process. Spoiler alert: this blog post will reveal major plot points of Season 4. Spoiler alert: this blog post will reveal major plot points of Season 4.

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Admissions Mom

MAY 1, 2024

So if you read the stuff I write (and thank you if you do), you might have already seen this advice and these stories I’m sharing before, but I always think good reminders are important — especially about your mental health. And do you know why? Graduating seniors, y’all might wanna hold on to this post too.

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Ivy College Essay

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Have you been deferred from Early Decision or Early Action? By now, everyone who was applying for college Early Decision for the Nov 1 deadline has gotten everything in and is in a holding pattern. But, what if you don’t get rejected OR accepted for Early Decision or Early Action? What if you get DEFERRED?

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Admissions Mom

MAY 18, 2023

So much so that my May Mental Health Awareness Month Post that I meant to post last week is being posted later in the month than I would have liked – and you know what, that’s ok. It’s the old airplane adage – put your own facemask on first before you help others. And it’s totally ok and normal to be stressed out. I call it wind.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 27, 2022

Universities nationwide have experienced exponential growth in their CS application numbers. Ten years ago, UT received less than a thousand CS applicants. For fall 2019, 729 CS applicants gained admission with 403 enrolling. 90% of Valedictorian applicants will not gain admission to Turing.

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Admissions Village

JULY 31, 2022

This need to compare can get so tricky that some high schools do not release scattergrams to their families. First, for those who do not know what I am talking about, Naviance and Scoir are different software platforms high schools use to help their students with college applications. Why is that? Why did that happen?

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) Why have application numbers skyrocketed at many colleges? Frequently asked questions about the college application process How have colleges responded to the growth in application numbers? Why has it gotten so much harder to get into selective colleges than in the past?

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