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Tulane reduces number of students accepted Early Decision II

Admissions.Blog

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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Is it Better to be Waitlisted or Deferred?

Solomon Admissions

Instead of a cheery acceptance letter or even a denial, however, you find that you’ve been deferred (or waitlisted). Is being deferred better or worse than being waitlisted? What should you do in response to a deferral or a waitlist decision? Deferred vs. Waitlisted What do these decisions mean?

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Everything You Need to Know About Being Deferred or Waitlisted

StandOut College Prep

As shared in the post about early admissions, if you apply to college during Early Action and Early Decision cycles , you will face a lot of competition. When more students apply early, you’re also likely to be deferred from at least one college. Have you been deferred or waitlisted from college?

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Why Are College Admission Rates So Low and Not Just at the Ivy League?

Spark Admissions

Further, structural changes like the ongoing elimination of standardized testing requirements and rampant grade inflation have also contributed to students submitting more and more applications. For these reasons, selective colleges and Ivy League schools have been making more active use of their waitlists in recent years.

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What You Need to Know About Williams College

Ivy Central

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. In addition to the 858 students who were accepted, 14 students were deferred from the early decision round.

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It’s Time to Get Organized! College Application Timeline for Juniors and Seniors 2023-2024

Excelsior Admissions Consulting

JUNIOR YEAR September - January Schedule and sit for standardized ACT or SAT tests if the student is taking them. Here is a list of colleges and universities that are standardized test-optional for the upcoming admissions cycle. Try to decide whether and where you will apply Early Decision (ED) or Early Action (EA).

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How Did We Get Here? - Part 3

Admissions Village

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. Waitlists are being utilized more than ever before.