The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this post, we’re going to talk about how you can increase your chances of making it into the 3% of students, out of over 60,000 applications, who are offered a seat in the first-year class. That said, we’ll give it one. Harvard is a university in Cambridge, Massachusetts right alongside Boston that is a member of the vaunted Ivy League.

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the spirit of all things "Leaders and Best," we've pulled together this guide on how to get into the University of Michigan. TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) How hard is it to get into University of Michigan? Are you itching to rock the maize and blue of the University of Michigan? We've got you covered! Let’s dive in.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 7, 2023

However, application results shared by a few top public universities including Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, plus Yale, the only top private university to share data so far, and the Common Application, offer some preliminary insight into how this year’s application numbers might trend. Driving the increase at UVA?

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you’re reading this, maybe you’ve already decided if you’re going to take the SAT or the ACT (and if you haven’t, here's some help ). Getting these tests in the books should feel great, but we’re guessing there’s that little nagging feeling as you wait for your SAT scores or your ACT scores. What’s a good ACT score?”

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

Of these chart-toppers, Pomona College had the lowest Class of 2026 acceptance rate, 6.03%. However, unlike the Ivies , for which overall acceptance rates sat below 7% across the board in the 2021-22 application cycle, some of the top-ranking liberal arts colleges exhibit more generous numbers. or “why study the liberal arts?”

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Berkeley² Academy

MARCH 6, 2024

The charts below illustrate the Early Action and Early Decision admissions results for five Ivy League schools and MIT for the past two admissions cycles (2021-22 and 2022-23). * Cornell, Penn, and Princeton will not disclose admissions results until the end of the yearly cycle. So what does this mean for Texas high school students?

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College Essay Guy

JUNE 7, 2023

So know this—many, many high schoolers wonder each year about how to get into Yale. TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) How hard is it to get into Yale University? Yale University Application Deadlines Yale Early Action Policy Policy Yale Supplemental Essay Prompts How to get into Yale—Essay Tips How hard is it to get into Yale?

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We work with outstanding students, helping them chart a path to a dream college experience. Which group you’re considered in depends on how you complete the defer response form, which will be available in your UChicago account by mid-January. If you’ve been deferred by the University of Chicago, you’re probably pretty disappointed.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

students and families (understandably) often ask us what colleges are looking for in students they admit and how to maximize their chances of standing out in selective college admissions. And we’ll help you understand how and where they do. How have admission factors changed over time? Admission test scores (ACT, SAT) 185 4.9

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 30, 2022

What rank and test scores do you need to be competitive? I have a strict policy of not taking students outside of the top 15% or who score less than a 1400/31 on the SAT/ACT. Students with great academics who are well within the below charts will routinely get denied. Hoping to make the cut for UT-Austin?

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 28, 2023

In the chart below, you can see how the acceptance rate data for in state versus out of state applicants varies by school. These required courses, also known as A-G courses, are listed in the below chart. These required courses, also known as A-G courses, are listed in the below chart.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To understand why, check out this example from Achievement First , which offers a great example of how both quantitative and qualitative information can help admissions officers better understand the world your students come from. Below, we’ll talk through how and why you can (and should) build something similar. I’m no design expert.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Learn why the LSAT is so challenging and what strategies you can use to earn a top score Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Why is the LSAT so challenging? Part 3: How to ace the LSAT Part 4: Should you take the LSAT online or in person? How difficult is it to get a good LSAT score ? How is the LSAT scored?

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Marks Education

MARCH 24, 2022

Do your summer plans include SAT or ACT preparation? . Ah, summer: beaches, barbecues, baseball, buckling down to prep for the SAT or ACT. The first step is to take baseline diagnostic tests for both the SAT and the ACT to determine which test is best for you. Timeline for Early SAT or ACT Test Takers. Wait, what?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 25, 2023

Tufts Univeristy is a private research institution located a hop, skip, and a jump away from Boston. They used to be a small liberal arts school, but decided to start offering PhD’s in the 70s, and now have approximately 7k undergrads and 7k grad students. Also, their mascot is an elephant named Jumbo. Louis University. The mascot comes from P.

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The College Solutions Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

And that includes students who earn perfect SAT or ACT scores and graduate as high school valedictorians. Example: Let’s say a student has a 1100 SAT and a 3.1 This student would be applying to a reach school if the middle 50% of accepted students at this institution had an SAT range of 1110 to 1260 or higher.

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you want to maximize your score on the ACT, you’re going to want to learn in detail what’s on the test, identify what concepts you’re shaky on and drill them repeatedly, master the overall strategies that work best for you, and then practice practice practice. So here they are … ten strategies that will boost your score on the ACT.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, Princeton (charted in 1746, for reference), the last Ivy to integrate, didn’t start admitting Black students until 1947. Admissions have changed a lot in the last few years, but we’re about to see a whole new wave of changes crash into some of our nation’s oldest institutions. We don’t love that! Yes, that’s probably true.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 27, 2022

In this post, I cover the logistics of how to apply to honors, how the admissions process works, tips and strategies for each program, and a discussion of alternative pathways to honors programs. My general rule of thumb is ranking in at least the top 5% of your class scoring a 1450 as a minimum to be competitive.

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Admissions Madness

JUNE 4, 2022

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. ED students guaranteed to arrive on campus help them forecast how many students they need to admit through regular deadlines.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Cornell is test optional for applicants applying in the 2023-2024 cycle, but this may not be a permanent policy across the university as some of the undergraduate colleges haven’t fully bought into the idea that the SAT or ACT isn’t necessary to fully assess students. Some colleges don’t even use test scores, though.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 13, 2023

Then, we’ll offer 7 statement of purpose examples with in-depth analysis from our grad school admission coaches, so you can understand how to create your own statement of purpose for your grad school applications. TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) What is a statement of purpose for grad school?

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