Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 12, 2024

Decisions for transfer students have not yet been released and waitlist decisions will be released once admitted students accept or decline their offers. ENROLL NOW Meanwhile, more than 20% of admitted students are the first in their family to attend university, with a similar percentage being Pell Grant recipients.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 22, 2024

News & World Report and has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,500. Peterson said MIT placed a “modest number” of applicants on their waitlist. According to past data, between 10-35 students get off the waitlist each year, primarily because MIT has a high yield rate — around 85% of admitted students joined the Class of 2027.

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Spark Admissions

JULY 7, 2022

Even setting aside the record-low admission rates at Ivy League schools this year, admission rates have dropped precipitously across the country. One answer is the same at these schools as it is at the Ivy League: more applications for the same (or fewer) number of spots. Why Are Admission Rates Falling?

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

THE BOOK THAT LAUNCHED AN INDUSTRY In 1997, Dr. Michele Hernandez wrote A is for Admission , the tell-all book that blew the lid off Ivy league admissions based on her four years as an admissions officer at Dartmouth College. Application Boot Camp Need strategic guidance from start to finish? Try Application Boot Camp®.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ivy League schools Columbia, Brown, and Yale, along with Duke, have reached settlement agreements. They considered the financial need of students on the waitlist, engaged in enrollment management practices to secure full-pay students, and wooed kids of donors or potential donors.

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In addition to Vanderbilt and UChicago, the case involves six Ivy League schools and other highly selective institutions such as Northwestern University, the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University. How did these colleges stray from their need-blind commitment?

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 4, 2023

An additional 1,145 applicants were offered spots on the waitlist. ENROLL NOW The number of applicants is up by nearly 50 percent compared to the pool of students that sought entry to the class of 2024. 776 students were admitted during the early action round and 66 matched through the QuestBridge National College Match program.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 21, 2022

Admissions Madness is not yet another “how-to to write a killer essay” book or a promise of “six easy steps” for Ivy League acceptance. Early Decision policies and aggressive recruitment and questionable enrollment management practices monopolize universities’ leverage over families’ well-being.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This is the first Ivy League school to return to requiring test scores since the pandemic pause (Georgetown, MIT, Purdue, and the public schools in FL and GA returned quickly to requiring testing or never stopped requiring it in the first place). Sophomores looking ahead to fall testing are starting to prep.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A few CTK tips to consider: Tip # 1: Don’t commit until you are ready (and before the enrollment deadline) For the schools where you have been accepted, don’t let all those emails, glossy pamphlets, and stickers from colleges pressure you into making a commitment before you are ready. Watch this space as events develop.

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BestColleges

APRIL 23, 2024

Yield is the percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll. This means 2 in 3 accepted students choose to enroll elsewhere. In this case, that drawing board is the waitlist, the “maybe” of college admissions. For its class of 2025, Penn took 16.64% off the waitlist. But just how does the waitlist affect yield?

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 26, 2024

Ivy Day typically falls in late March or early April and is the day when Ivy League institutions and several other prestigious colleges release their regular decision admissions results. This year, Ivy Day will be on Thursday, March 28. ENROLL NOW SOCIAL MEDIA BUZZ In the digital age, Ivy Day has taken on a new dimension.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

A 2020 data assessment by Ivy Coach crunched the numbers to determine which Ivy League universities admit ED applicants deferred to the regular admissions pool. Occasionally, deferred students are offered a spot on the waitlist, a kind of double-limbo. Another tool in the enrollment manager’s kit is the elusive waitlist.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But before you start asking how to get into UPenn, take a moment to learn as much as possible about the spirit of the school that calls itself “the Ivy League without the ivory tower.” As is the case for any Ivy League school, the competition to gain admission is fierce. Thanks for everything—it's certainly paid off!"

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Stanford, Duke), you’re probably encouraging them to consider applying to perhaps the most famous, prestigious, historical, and globally admired of the Ivies: Harvard. Harvard University ranking Harvard is routinely at or near the top of Ivy League rankings : Forbes: 9 Niche: 4 U.S.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Early action is non-binding , so the applicant applies and receives an admissions decision earlier but is not expected to enroll if admitted. Learn the UChicago acceptance rate and admissions requirements, plus strategies for UChicago supplemental essays the university of chicago is ranked #6 by u.s.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 25, 2023

(Suggested reading: Average GPA and MCAT Score for Every Medical School) Harvard Medical School admissions requirements Coursework: Harvard requires you to complete the following prerequisites prior to enrolling: Behavioral Sciences: One semester to one year. Offers of admission from the waitlist are also extended based on this ranking.

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