AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Schools with rolling admissions accept applications on an ongoing basis, meaning there are no strict deadlines. Early admission. This comes in two forms Early Decision and Early Action. If you decide to take one of these exams, start with a diagnostic test for both the SAT and ACT to see which one suits you better.

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Berkeley² Academy

MARCH 6, 2024

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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Expert Admissions

MARCH 30, 2023

Most of the Seven Sisters schools were founded in the 19th century as academically rigorous counterpoints to male-only Ivy League colleges. Admissions Profile Average GPA: 3.75 Test Scores (mid-50% range): 1370-1530 SAT/ 31-34 ACT Admit Rate: 29% Test-optional? Yes Offers Early Admissions?

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The Ivy Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Despite unusually low acceptance rates at top colleges, including those in the Ivy League, our students gained admission to Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Georgetown, NYU and Colgate, among others. Nevertheless, we still had exceptional results.

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Expert Admissions

MARCH 23, 2023

Native American less than 3% Most Popular Majors: Economics, Government, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, History Motto: Veritas (“Truth”) History: Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university. Admissions Profile Average GPA: 4.2 Yes Offers Early Admissions?

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Don’t apply to Princeton just because you want to attend an Ivy League school; apply because of how your interests and goals align with the mission of the school and its academic offerings. Moreover, the Classes of ’23 and ’22 were filled 57.15% and 61.46%, respectively, by early admissions. LEARN MORE.

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The Ivy Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 22, 2024

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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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Next up in our series highlighting early round acceptance rates at top colleges is Dartmouth College — an Ivy League institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth and other top colleges have always known that SATs are an important predictor of first year college GPA.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 1, 2024

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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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Even with top scores and strong grades, a deferral simply highlights how incredibly competitive the early admission landscape has become. After all, being deferred means you are still in the running for possible admission in a few months! Retaking the SAT or ACT, if necessary.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, you can expect that acceptance into the University of Pennsylvania’s Bio-Dental Program will be much more difficult as an applicant to Penn, an Ivy League university with an overall acceptance rate of 6 percent, than as an applicant to Muhlenberg College , which accepts 65 percent of applicants as of the class of 2026.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Early Admissions Trends for the Class of 2024: How are colleges handling the massive increase in applications? SAT, ACT, and test optional: with Dartmouth now requiring test scores, will the test optional trend reverse? You can see my fulsome update on the digital SAT here. for most students than the old SAT.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

The student agrees to withdraw all other applications, and not accept any other offers of admission. Early action programs are a hybrid. Students may apply early under these early action (EA) programs and receive an early admissions decision. So why, then, do colleges like the early decision process?

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Admissions Madness

JUNE 4, 2022

The first early admissions deadlines arose in the 1950s. The 2003 book The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite found that applying ED confers a 100 point SAT advantage, which subsequent 2012 research by Antecol & Kiholm supports.

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 19, 2023

Originally a football conference, the Ivy League has become broadly equated with the nation’s oldest, most selective, and most academically respected schools. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation includes these schools plus UChicago and Johns Hopkins University. As they quip: “Don’t send it. We won’t see it.”

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BestColleges

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite more than 300 schools extending their admission deadlines as well as waiving SAT/ACT requirements in hopes of retaining numbers, undergraduate enrollment dropped considerably. Number of Standardized Test-Takers, 2019-2022 Year SAT ACT GRE 2019 2.2 back to content ⤶ ) 2022 Total Group SAT Suite Annual Report.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 11, 2025

Brown is an Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, and is home to what is widely considered one of the best undergraduate colleges in the country. This means that applying Early Decision is critical if Brown is your top choice school. We love early admissions options, but they arent for everyone or every situation.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 13, 2025

Dartmouth is a highly-respected university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and member of the Ivy League. Most of the Ivy League, and Ivy-adjacent, schools are in large cities. So, they recently brought required standardized test scores back and now all applicants must submit an ACT or SAT to be considered for admission.

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