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Rejected Early Decision from Johns Hopkins (JHU) 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

We know that some of you only applied early decision to JHU or only have a few schools on your list. To identify where you stand with each school, check out the middle 50% data for accepted students and compare it with your own GPA and test scores. Rest of you, listen up.

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Rejected Early Decision from Dartmouth 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

You are the kind of student who applied early decision to Dartmouth, which tells us that you are probably extremely Type A. We see a lot of students who get rejected from an Ivy League in early decision and end up at Ivy and Ivy+ schools in regular decision, because they didn’t panic. Don’t worry, so are we.

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Rejected Early Decision from Columbia University 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

Getting rejected early decision sucks. You are the kind of student who applied early decision to Columbia, which means that you probably have so many responsibilities, so many extracurriculars to keep track of, sports, excellent grades, etc. You are exhausted, even if you don’t fully realize it yet.

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Rejected Early Decision from Amherst 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

We build our clients’ college lists in a way where if they were to get rejected from their early decision school, they would not need to panic and add more applications last minute! For most of you, a total redo will not be necessary, especially if you built a strong, balanced college list at the start of this process. A funny quirk?

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Deferred by Dartmouth Early Decision 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

The Early Decision acceptance rate is much higher, closer to 17% , which encourages lots of people to apply ED. A massive number of the applicants admitted Early Decision basically knew that they would get in before submitting. Remember, this shouldn’t be based on gut feeling or ‘intuition’, either. Let’s break it down.

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Rejected Early Decision from Duke University 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

Just because you got rejected early decision from Duke does not mean that you need to get rid of all the other reach schools from your list. Trust the balanced list you built, and if you applied early decision to Duke, then you probably applied early action to a number of other schools.

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Rejected Early Decision from Barnard College 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

So many things about you cannot be measured with a number like your GPA or SAT score. You want to think about what makes you unique, or even just what traits you have that people really notice (pro tip: you can ask friends and family for help with this). So, do you have a quirky habit? A funny or unusual hobby? A crazy story?