Shemmassian Academic Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The number of people taking the LSAT increased by 40 percent between 2014 and 2021. The closing date varies drastically for every law school, but top law schools have deadlines in early February. Select schools have begun to offer applicants the chance to be admitted through a binding, early decision application cycle.

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

They have been test-optional since 2014, and if you submit scores, they are only “considered.” Finally, Consider Applying Early For the class of 2026, Wesleyan had a 14% overall acceptance rate. Their Regular Decision acceptance rate was 12.4%, and their Early Decision acceptance rate was 40%. But should you?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 10, 2023

The study found that between 2014 and 2019, Harvard let in around 30% of legacies. Especially because, for the Class of 2025 , "Legacy students were more likely to apply early decision than regular decision to Duke—81.7% Why are we talking about Harvard? Probably a bigger difference than the legacy vs non-legacy rates.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And more than a dozen Massachusetts legislators want to eliminate legacy admissions, donor preferences, and binding early decision programs at all the commonwealth's colleges and universities. Johns Hopkins University, a Maryland institution, abandoned its legacy policy in 2014.

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Admissions.Blog

JULY 17, 2022

Early Decision vs. Regular Decision Acceptance Rates (Created by Jennie Kent and Jeff Levy ). Research away! Admissions Data/Insights/Statistics . See and analyze colleges on a map with CollegeOverlook.com (Created by Bob Poulsen). Standardized Testing. Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.

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Admissions.Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Below is an example of a scattergram for a particular high school showing current students (and parents) at that high school how alumni from that high school fared when applying to University of Maryland College Park from 2010 through 2014. Two images of scattergrams are included below. depending on a school’s grading scale.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Here is an example of an effective response to this question: I was born and raised in Mumbai, spending the first twelve years of my life in the city before my parents immigrated our family to Boston in 2014. As with most American medical schools, SKMC uses AMCAS for its application process.

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BestColleges

APRIL 7, 2023

For the 2021-2022 academic year, international applicants were back on the rise from countries like China and Korea and overall have increased by 63% since 2014-2015. The number of international student applicants rose by 63% between the 2014-2015 and 2021-2022 academic years, according to new data from the Common App.

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2014, New York State Education Law 2-D barred the commercialization of such information. Once again, early decision programs are the way to go if students don’t need to compare scholarship offers and want to end up at highly selective schools. I am so incredibly proud of them!

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rates are even lower among regular decision applicants vs. early action or early decision applicants. Even though I’ve been helping students get into top colleges since 2004, I only started writing about college admissions in 2014. I’ll offer an example from my own professional career to demonstrate the point.

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