Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 21, 2025

This marks a shift from the test-optional policy adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Starting with the Fall 2026 application cycle, undergraduate applicants will once again be required to submit standardized test scores (SAT or ACT) as part of their application.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. Here is an abridged summary of our conversation.

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Admissions Village

APRIL 19, 2023

million additional applications sent by this year’s class compared to their counterparts in the class of 2020 — although the classes are roughly the same size. Applications to all Common App institutions are indeed up 30% since 2020. In 2020, before COVID inflated grades even further, 68.1% That equates to some 1.56

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Ruffaloni

MAY 11, 2023

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that one in five youth aged 13-18 experience a severe mental disorder, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that in 2020, more than 60 percent of high school students reported feeling “nervous, anxious, or on edge” for two or more weeks; more (..)

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

million additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. I then used that percent to plot where 2020 and 2021 enrollment may have been (barring any other significant impact). Further, only an additional 1.8

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many colleges and universities were “test-optional” before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Now much has been said about the diminishing importance of standardized tests in the admissions process. But the virus infected the college admissions process, such that most colleges decided to go test-optional, at least temporarily.

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Admissions Village

MARCH 26, 2023

million additional applications sent by this year’s class compared to their counterparts in the class of 2020 — although the classes are roughly the same size.” That equates to some 1.56 Students are applying to more colleges than they did three years ago.

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Ivy Central

APRIL 6, 2023

As COVID hit the world in the spring of 2020 so the standard orthodoxy around SAT or ACT testing went out of the window as colleges declared themselves Test Optional, meaning that students could choose if they wanted to submit test scores and that their chances of acceptance wouldn’t be impacted if they didn’t.

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Ivy Central

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This year's publication focuses on those students who graduated in the summer of 2020 and provides a wealth of information on what those students were doing. The summer of 2020 was a particularly difficult time for students leaving university, COVID 19 was sweeping the world before it.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

March 23, 2021) Navigating the Waitlist (March 27, 2020) Still have questions? Becky has worked with Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech since 2012, and served as the Director of Enrollment Marketing and Communications since 2020. The Admissions Waitlist.NOOOOO!!!! April 30, 2023) The Waitlist. The last key piece of advice?

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The College Curators

MAY 11, 2021

The 2020-2021 college admissions cycle has been like no other (no school tours, test optional, everything virtual). Students have had to adapt and be nimble. In real time, we have.

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

88% 81% N = 99,807 students from 153 institutions, Fall 2020-Spring 2023 The table above reflects the percentage of students who indicate that the item is important or very important to them and the percentage that say they are satisfied or very satisfied in this area. 93% 83% Billing and payment procedures are convenient for me.

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College Kickstart

APRIL 19, 2020

We’ve enhanced our test-optional recommendation engine to help you better handle the growing list of schools going test-blind for the 2020-21 admission cycle. Entering 2020, less than five institutions in our coverage universe were test-blind. Attention College Kickstart subscribers! Click Continue Reading below to learn more.

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Ivy Coach

MARCH 23, 2023

While test-optional admissions policies existed before the pandemic’s onset, before 2020, most of America’s top colleges required the submission of either SAT or ACT scores for admission. With test cancelations and administrative closures due to … Read More Ivy Coach

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Spark Admissions

APRIL 13, 2022

After the 2020-2021 admissions cycle marked the hardest year ever to gain admission to a top-ranked school, no one quite knew what to expect for the following year. In 2020-2021, top schools saw increases in applications of 30, 40, even 50 percent, leading to their lowest-ever admission rates. We have an answer now.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

Fall 2020 saw 5.9m At the graduate level, fall 2020 saw 844k fewer all-classroom graduate students, but only 470k returned to the classroom in fall 2021. But the data show that—in the aggregate—the students just didn’t show up the same way. I’ll report on 2021 12-month data later.)

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Garnishment became illegal after the CARES Act of 2020. ED continued garnishing wages at least 18 months after the CARES Act of 2020 made the practice illegal. According to the report, the CARES Act of 2020 determined that borrowers should be free from involuntary student loan payments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Data Summary Check Around 23% of college students were food insecure in 2020. [1] 1] Check Food insecurity intensified during COVID-19, with rates of hunger nearly doubling in some states in 2020. [2] of American households were food insecure in 2020. [5] Department of Education, 2020 NPSAS: UG. December 2020.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This year is the first in which the early decision admissions rate at Williams has increased since 2020, according to the Williams Record. WILLIAMS COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE RATE Williams received 964 applications to its Early Decision program and admitted 257 of them to the Class of 2029 for an acceptance rate of 26.6%.

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, Harvard received 40,248 applications in the 2019-2020 admissions cycle, but in 2020-2021, that number soared to a record-high of 57,000 ! This is because of a massive increase in applications, leaving the Ivy League schools unprepared for the influx.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Indeed, as a central pillar of sound pipeline development, engagement activities are irreplaceable, and donors’ comfort levels with virtual engagement, cultivation, and even solicitation have increased dramatically since 2020.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 13, 2025

Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in admissions; but, as the head of enrollment at Trinity College told the NY Times in 2020 , I cant come up with a class of 20% men thats just not a good campus. Other schools statistics tell a more proactive story of seeking to balance incoming classes.

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College Transitions

AUGUST 29, 2024

Researchers at Tufts found that the college student voting rate in 2020 was a historic high of 66%. For many students, their first opportunity to vote will occur during college. And most will take advantage of that fact. Though student voting declined in 2022, many think that we’ll see increased presence at the polls in […]

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College Transitions

JULY 29, 2024

In fact, the amount of applications received has nearly tripled since 2020, leading to a Colgate acceptance rate that inches closer to single digits every year. […]

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College Transitions

JULY 10, 2024

Prior to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, rarely did a single month pass without another well-known college or university making headlines by announcing that it would no longer require applicants to submit standardized test scores.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 23, 2025

For example, Harvard received 40,248 applications in the 2019-2020 admissions cycle, but in 2020-2021, that number soared to a record-high of 57,000 ! This is because of a massive increase in applications, leaving the Ivy League schools unprepared for the influx.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The NCAA has waived standardized test requirements in Division I sports since April 2020 due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the University of California system voted to eliminate SAT and ACT test score requirements by 2025. 11-14 in San Antonio, Texas.

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College Transitions

MARCH 21, 2025

In 2020, the Common App added a new optional prompt to the Additional Information section that gave students an extra space to detail the impact of COVID-19 on their lives. Then, as the pandemic waned and the world returned to normal, the Common App changed the prompt to be a bit more general, re-labeling it […]

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BestColleges

MAY 17, 2024

Students from both private and public four-year institutions voted at a higher rate in 2020 than students from community colleges. Tufts University calculated a 50% voter turnout rate among people under 30 in 2020, up from 39% in 2016.

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PrepScholar

APRIL 11, 2023

I'll also provide percentiles for SAT combined and section scores for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. In this article, I'll explain what new SAT percentile scores are and how they've changed over time.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The program is offered through their Honors College and has doubled in size since 2020 alone. According to a 2020 report from the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, for the U.S. December 18, 2020. What community college leaders need to do now to prepare for the 2020 election results. October 15, 2020.

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Admissions Village

MARCH 24, 2024

Since 2020, the number of applications to Common App institutions has risen by over 39%, and the number of applicants has risen by almost 28%. This year applications to the Common Application’s 834 returning member colleges increased another 7% for a total number of applications through February 1st of nearly 7.5

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BestColleges

AUGUST 7, 2024

The donations are the largest single gifts to three of the medical schools, passing Bloomberg Philanthropies' last donation in 2020. Bloomberg's 2020 donation allowed nearly every enrolled student to receive up to $100,000 in financial aid. Bloomberg calculated funding for each school based on current class size and growth.

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BestColleges

JULY 12, 2023

Community colleges tend to be less costly than four-year schools: The average total cost of attendance at two-year public institutions started at $9,666 per year for in-state students for the 2020-2021 school year. By comparison, the average annual cost of tuition and fees for four-year schools in 2020-2021 was $19,020.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 20, 2025

2020 43,997 4.8% Stanford has a history of competitive acceptance rate over the past few years : Stanford Class Total Applications Overall Acceptance Rate 2027 53,733 3.9% 2026 56,378 3.7% 2025 55,471 3.9% 2024 45,227 5.2% 2023 47,498 4.3% 2022 47,451 4.4% 2021 44,073 4.7%

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

(Colgate saw a remarkable 102% increase in applications from the 2019-20 to 2020-21 admissions cycles and seems to still be riding that wave.) increase in applications between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cycles and a decrease in acceptance rate from 8.74% to 6.93%; Pomona saw a 4.9%

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 1, 2024

2020 31,455 6.3% 2020 26,793 4.5% 2020 4,662 17.1% Here’s a detailed look at Yale’s admissions data over the last ten years: Yale Class Total Applications Overall Acceptance Rate 2028 54,465 3.7% 2027 52,303 4.5% 2026 50,060 4.6% 2025 47,240 5.3% 2024 35,220 6.5% 2023 36,844 6.6% 2022 35,307 6.4% 2021 32,914 6.9% 2027 44,559 3.5%

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