Admissions Mom

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You can control how you prepare yourself for the decisions. And if you applied to highly rejective colleges, steel yourself. spoiler alert: even if you don’t have a Surefire Safety that you love and every college rejects you, you’ll still have lots of options. So… ? Hold on to your hearts. Crazy, right?) ?

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The Thoughtful College Search

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So it was several years ago when Akil Bello talked about colleges as being highly “rejective” rather than highly selective. That seems to me a spot-on way to express a guiding principle that drives admission for a certain group of colleges. At those places, rejectivity is not just descriptive but also aspirational.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Massive media contracts and NIL deals make college sports attractive to private investors. Universities already have business deals with sports marketing companies that realize a percentage of revenues. This year, Florida State University will earn roughly $40 million thanks to the Atlantic Coast Conference's (ACC) media deal.

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Being rejected is not fun. College admissions are incredibly competitive. Here are some tips about what to do next: Take a Beat Getting rejected Early Decision can feel like a little bit of a heartbreak. By now, you should have a college list. How many targets do you have? Be sad if you’re sad. Take a little break.

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BestColleges

APRIL 23, 2024

A high yield rate helps colleges minimize the volatility of the admissions cycle. Students assume yield protection is why they get admitted to certain colleges and not others. Colleges aim to boost their yield through several strategies, including early admissions policies. Last year, Amherst College's yield was 39%.

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The Koppelman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

That same year, they rejected 68% and deferred 19% — or nearly 1 in 5 applications. While Brown hasn’t published the statistics on how many previously deferred students were later accepted, being deferred to the regular decision pool makes your likelihood of admission the same as the acceptance rate, or 5%.

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Solomon Admissions

APRIL 26, 2023

, The Common Application , a college application service first created in 1975, has helped billions of eager high school, transfer, and adult students take the first step to reach their educational goals. Before jumping to add your list of colleges to the Common App., Before jumping to add your list of colleges to the Common App.,

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 30, 2023

If you applied to Princeton and were notified that you are being offered a space on the waitlist, you should know that this is not a ‘soft rejection.’ They aren’t waitlisting you because they don’t want to reject you. Next Steps How will you be ready, you ask? Next Steps How will you be ready, you ask?

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 31, 2023

Look, I’m gonna be completely honest — It can really hurt, more than anything else you’ve ever felt before, but here’s the deal: The only way through the pain is to go through it. Still, remember this: You aren’t being rejected, your application is. You can – and should – try to negotiate your aid before moving on from a college.

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BestColleges

MARCH 8, 2023

But each experience I had growing up led me to learn more about myself, how people work, and what motivates them to act in particular ways. I have always known that I wanted to help others. As a child, I wasn't entirely sure in what capacity that would be — whether it would be as a doctor, therapist, or criminologist.

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Admissions Mom

DECEMBER 2, 2022

You can control how you prepare yourself for the decisions. And if you applied to highly rejective colleges, steel yourself. spoiler alert: even if you don’t have a surefire safety that you love and every college rejects you, you’ll still have lots of options. So… ? Hold on to your hearts. Crazy, right?). ?

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 18, 2023

Introduction List of the top 10 best medical schools: 2023 rankings & admissions statistics How to get into top-10 medical schools - Introduction Getting into any medical school is a notable achievement, especially since the majority of applicants do not get in anywhere. Want to learn how? Your guide is on its way. OOS 164 (11.6%

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DC College Counseling

JANUARY 30, 2023

BIGGEST COLLEGE-RELATED NEWS OF THE WEEK MORE MEDICAL SCHOOLS PULL OUT OF NATIONAL RANKINGS Last week Harvard Medical School made headlines when it withdrew from the U.S. The result is a staggering discrepancy between what families thought they had available for college funds versus the newly adjusted totals. It’s reality!

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 3, 2023

There’s all this pressure to take the most honors, APs, or IB courses possible — like there’s some magical combination of classes that will unlock your acceptance to the most fabulous college in the world — as if there were just one fabulous college ;-). Colleges want to see who you are and what you have to offer. Breathe out.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all better and make college admissions somehow feel fair and like it makes sense, but I haven’t discovered that power within me — yet, so I’m gonna stick with providing as much information as I possibly can for those who want it and can use it. You can handle this.

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North Star Admissions Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2021

Almost daily, parents ask me how they can help with their student’s college application process. More often than you might think, parents ignore this advice, making the college application process much harder than it needs to be, and hurting their own children’s chances of getting into college. Applicants with 4.0’s,

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The college application process can feel like it slogs on forever, and it would have been really nice to have an acceptance to a top-tier school under your belt — or even to be done altogether if you’d applied Early Decision. You weren’t rejected, so you still have a shot. The bad news is that you got bad news. But UChicago is!

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Admissions Mom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of my favorite parts about the whole college admissions experience (especially since there are so many stressful aspects) has always been college visits! WHY COLLEGE VISITS? or you may think, “Um…there’s no way I can handle how hectic this quad is.” You may think, “Oh my gosh, this library is freakin’ gorgeous!

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Hey Seniors – greetings from the College Guy! Winter’s grip has loosened here in Maine (well to be honest – it never really tightened) and those of you who applied Early Decision and Early Action have heard from your colleges by now. Here’s a chock-full-‘o-info College Guy Rant. to discuss. ” sez I.

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DC College Counseling

MAY 4, 2023

As we scrolled through Instagram and saw all of the excited smiles and college swag, we couldn’t help but get nostalgic. We started thinking about our own college admissions experiences and the decisions we made! We’ll admit that our journeys had a few bumps in the road, but there’s a LOT you can learn from our experiences.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Wesleyan University is a dynamic and diverse liberal arts college that is predominately undergraduate and is located in Middletown, Connecticut. The undergraduate college is extremely popular among students looking for an exceptional education in a small school setting, and, in 2022, the acceptance rate was 14.4%.

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The Thoughtful College Search

JANUARY 9, 2023

How many of us have been asked by Google or other websites to prove that? soon be a required question on college applications? That brings those of us in the college admissions and counseling worlds to consider the college application essay. I prefer to think that it’s real aim is to inconvenience me.

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Admissions.Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Considering how much the word “inclusive” is bandied about these days, Wake Forest University would, at first glance, appear to be taking a big risk by creating a new Early Action admissions option that will be the exclusive domain of only certain applicants based on their demographics alone.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Columbia College, the undergraduate college of Columbia University, is incredibly difficult to get into. Columbia doesn’t publish their deferral rate, so we can’t know how big of a pool you’re now swimming in. If you weren’t, they would have rejected you. In 2021, the overall acceptance rate was a minuscule 3.73%.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Princeton is one of the toughest schools to gain admittance to in the United States, but this post will break down every element of the Princeton Application Checklist to explain how you can maximize your opportunities. How Selective Is Princeton University? Scott Fitzgerald to Aaron Burr. Princeton University Statistics. SAT and ACT.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

APRIL 24, 2023

College essay examples from students accepted to Harvard, Stanford, and other elite schools REVIEWING SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE ESSAY EXAMPLES CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR ODDS OF ACCEPTANCE Responding effectively to college essay prompts is quite different from other essay writing. Use specific information.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And some are put off by the extreme competitiveness of the Canadian school admissions process—where around 80 percent of applicants are routinely rejected from every institution to which they apply. How expensive is tuition at U.S. In the meantime, please let us know how we can help you crack the the medical school admissions code.

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The College Solutions Blog

JULY 11, 2022

How do you research financial aid and merit scholarships that a student might get at individual colleges and universities? With college sticker prices continuing to climb, it’s an important question to ask because the financial aid and merit award policies at schools will vary widely. Using CollegeData.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 17, 2023

What do you do when you are deferred from your first choice college? Being deferred in the early round of college admissions really stinks. It’s disappointing, especially if the college in question was your first choice. It’s disappointing, especially if the college in question was your first choice.

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Admissions Madness

JUNE 4, 2022

At first glance, Early Decision seems like a good deal that benefits students because it promises higher admissions chances. ED students guaranteed to arrive on campus help them forecast how many students they need to admit through regular deadlines. Upon closer inspection, it’s mostly b t.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all better and make college admissions somehow feel fair and like they make sense, but I haven’t discovered that power in me yet, so I’m gonna stick with providing as much information as I possibly can for those who want it and can use it. Don’t check it obsessively. That’s not healthy.

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DC College Counseling

JANUARY 18, 2023

BIGGEST COLLEGE-RELATED NEWS OF THE WEEK CYBER ATTACK SHUTS DOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT Students in Des Moines, Iowa, received two unexpected days off of school last week. The Des Moines school district canceled classes following a cyber attack. And if it doesn’t come automatically, the student knows to ask!

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Tex Admissions

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Check out my new book Surviving the College Admissions Madness and Youtube Channel Most decisions have been released for Fall 2023. Almost everyone was rejected. The other thing you can do is request a less in-demand major, so if you were rejected to business, perhaps ask for Communications or Liberal Arts.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Learn the different types of MMI interview questions and how to answer them. MMI interviews allow schools to get a more holistic understanding of how you think. In this guide, we’ll explain what the MMI is, what types of MMI interview questions you might run into, and how to succeed in different scenarios.

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The Thoughtful College Search

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Should a student be admitted to college without ever applying to college? But the idea of having to apply for admission has become the newest front in the debate about whether we need a new college admissions paradigm. Until recently that question would have seemed absurd, perhaps even a joke.

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Admissions Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

One of my favorite parts about the whole college admissions experience (especially since there are so many stressful aspects) has always been college visits! WHY COLLEGE VISITS? or you may think, “Um…there’s no way I can handle how hectic this quad is.” You may think, “Oh my gosh, this library is freakin’ gorgeous!

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Campus Tours Admissions Applications Programs 52

Next Admit College Admissions Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yale University Statistics How Selective is Yale University? As of fall 2021, Yale College (the undergraduate school) had about 6500 students, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 6:1, and an endowment of $42 billion, the second highest of any university. percent, compared to 4.62 percent for the class of 2025 and 6.54

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