The Koppelman Group

AUGUST 18, 2024

Barnard is not thought of, generally, as part of the Ivy League, but if you play a sport at Barnard, you are playing for Columbia. About 50% of accepted and enrolled first-year students at Barnard submit scores. Columbia has a number of undergraduate colleges in addition to the iconic Columbia College. What does this tell us?

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Out of the 2,319 students who were accepted, 1,499 decided to enroll. It shows that Columbia is still a top pick for high-achieving students, even when they’ve got other Ivy League offers on the table. 2025 60,551 3.7% 2026 54,072 3% 2025 54,116 2.9% 2025 6,435 10.1% What does that mean for you?

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A new study says small colleges investing in athletics might not realize enrollment growth. Some colleges have successfully used sports programs to increase enrollment. You've just become president of a small, private college with a shrinking enrollment and a meager endowment. Do Athletic Investments Grow Enrollment?

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Out of the 1,284 admitted students, 1,102 eventually enrolled. 2025 33,240 4% 2024 20,075 7.3% A big spike happened with the Class of 2025, when applications shot up to over 33,000. MIT’s rate is lower than five of the Ivies, and just a hair above Harvard , Yale , and Columbia. 2025 18,204 3.4% 2025 15,036 4.8%

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Top Tier Admissions

AUGUST 26, 2024

For rising seniors (those applying for admission in fall 2025), submitting an ACT or SAT score is encouraged, but not required. JHU, considered one of the New Ivies , follows a wave of elite universities who have returned to standardized testing requirements. SAT Tutoring Expert one-on-one guidance to boost your score.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The University of Washington (UW), which has three campuses in Seattle , Tacoma , and Bothell respectively, enrolls more than 60,000 students. UW’s 2024-2025 Prompts The University of Washington sets three essay prompts for applicants. You can receive detailed feedback from Ivy League consultants in as little as 24 hours.

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 7, 2024

Stanford will reintroduce standardized testing requirements for undergraduate admissions starting in fall 2025 for admission to the Class of 2030. This development is likely to drive even higher application numbers to test-blind California schools in the 2025-26 cycle, especially UCLA and UC Berkeley.

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 14, 2024

The term “Public Ivies” has arguably been around longer than any of the other “Ivy adjacent” categories ( “Southern Ivies,” “New Ivies,” etc.). Following recruitment efforts in-state to improve college access, applications from Georgia students increased 13% this year.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The University of Washington (UW), which has three campuses in Seattle , Tacoma , and Bothell respectively, enrolls more than 60,000 students. UW’s 2024-2025 Prompts The University of Washington sets three essay prompts for applicants. You can receive detailed feedback from Ivy League consultants in as little as 24 hours.

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 9, 2024

The ranking, conducted in collaboration with Witlytic, began with over 2,400 institutions, which was then narrowed down to 745 based on criteria like minimum enrollment, data reliability, financial health, and graduation rates. LEARN MORE SURPRISE, SURPRISE While many of these schools are Ivy League institutions (e.g.,

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 12, 2024

HARVARD REVERSES COURSE ON TESTING REQUIREMENT Despite Harvard’s previous commitment to remaining test-optional through the Class of 2030, the college announced on April 11 it would require students applying for fall 2025 admission to submit either an SAT or ACT score. ENROLL NOW Want To Read More About Harvard? in the Class of 2026.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 27, 2024

Students applying in fall 2025 must submit SAT or ACT scores, while those applying this fall are encouraged to do so. The decision follows similar policy changes at Ivy League colleges. Hopkins' decision follows similar policy changes by several Ivy League schools. legacies and 8.1% In 2021, only 3.7%

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 3, 2023

This year’s acceptance rate matches the class of 2025 as the University’s lowest rate in history. According to a survey done by enrollment management firm Maguire Associates, these policies have also helped increase application numbers from low-income students and from students who belong to marginalized racial and ethnic groups.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

AUGUST 16, 2024

UT Austin’s Spring 2024-2025 Prompts UT Austin Long Essay Question Tell us your story. Describe how your experiences, perspectives, talents, and/or your involvement in leadership activities (at your school, job, community or within your family) will help you to make an impact both in and out of the classroom while enrolled at UT.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 6, 2023

More than 59,000 students applied to Penn this cycle, the largest first-year applicant pool in Penn’s history, and over 4,500 more applications than the Class of 2026 and over 3,000 more than the Class of 2025. The Early Decision Program for this cycle also featured the largest applicant pool in the University’s history.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 19, 2024

Located in Providence, Rhode Island, and founded in 1764, Brown University is an Ivy League institution with 7,300 undergraduates. There was a 5% decrease from last year’s applicant pool, a decline that Logan Powell, Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, said was “planned for and expected.”

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 8, 2024

Johns Hopkins , Duke ), you might be encouraging them to apply to the youngest and largest Ivy: Cornell. With one of the largest networks in the Ivy League, Cornell and its alumni will help your child succeed throughout their career. Among the class of 2025, 49.3 Who gets into Cornell?

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Spark Admissions

JULY 7, 2022

Even setting aside the record-low admission rates at Ivy League schools this year, admission rates have dropped precipitously across the country. One answer is the same at these schools as it is at the Ivy League: more applications for the same (or fewer) number of spots. Why Are Admission Rates Falling?

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It’s important to remember that, especially in the Ivy League, there are countless students who are more than qualified to get in, and there’s simply not enough space for all of you. When building a college list, aim for a balanced mix of safety, target, and reach schools—places where you’d genuinely be happy to enroll if accepted.

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The Koppelman Group

AUGUST 12, 2024

Stanford is a renowned research university in California that is considered to be on par with the east coast’s Ivy League. Submitting an ACT or SAT score is not required for students applying for admission in the fall of 2025. This should be taken as strong encouragement to submit scores as part of your application.

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 4, 2024

ENROLL NOW RECENT TRENDS AND CHANGES IN STANDARDIZED TESTING In recent years, the role of standardized testing in college admissions has been under scrutiny. Despite this trend, with many Ivy League colleges returning to mandatory testing for the 2024-2025 application cycle, standardized tests are back in the spotlight.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 26, 2024

Next up in our series is Brown University , an Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. of applicants were deferred to the regular decision round, continuing a pattern of decreasing deferral rates in recent years — 30% for the class of 2025, 25% for the class of 2026 and 19% for the class of 2027.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

University of Florida’s 2024-2025 Prompts There are a few different types of essays required by UF. When the admissions team asks the above questions to honors program applicants, they are expecting to hear from students who know their interests and know how they will take advantage of UF’s resources once enrolled.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 1, 2024

Stanford has a total undergraduate enrollment of around 8,000 students who study on a beautiful 8,000-acre campus in Palo Alto, California. Both decreased from the year prior when 49% of enrolled students submitted SAT scores and 23% submitted ACT scores. Meaning, of the 2,099 students (out of 53,733 applicants!)

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BestColleges

MAY 6, 2024

Vanderbilt University wants more students from Nashville to attend, so it's giving scholarships to students from Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) for 2025. All qualifying students must decide to enroll in the university through Early Decision I or II, a binding acceptance to the university.

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BestColleges

MARCH 20, 2024

This piece delves into the lower SAT score percentiles of popular schools, including the Ivy Leagues and other highly selective private colleges. Lowest SAT Scores for Popular Colleges In the table below, we see what the bottom 25% of enrolled students scored on their SATs at some popular colleges.

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The Koppelman Group

AUGUST 22, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania, or Penn , is an Ivy League in Philadelphia, PA. This makes it one of the largest Ivy League undergraduate populations. More than 70% of recently admitted and enrolled first-year students at Penn submitted scores. The overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2028 was 5.8%

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Butler University in Indiana is creating a free two-year college for historically underserved students that will launch in fall 2025. CTB selected Butler because of the university's commitment to access, capacity, enrollment trends, and the number of lower-income prospective students who could benefit from the new college. "I

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 23, 2024

Most recently, Harvard reversed course in an April 11 announcement that it would require students applying for fall 2025 admission to submit either an SAT or ACT score. Last year, 53% of enrolling students submitted test scores. Provost Michael I. Brooks School of Public Policy, and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations).

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BestColleges

MARCH 5, 2024

Note Reference [6] And at Cornell University, legacy students account for just under 15% of the class of 2025. Note Reference [8] While these numbers may seem exclusive to Ivy League institutions, it's not just the Harvards and Yales of higher education that consider legacy status. Accessed February 2024. Stanford University.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But before you start asking how to get into UPenn, take a moment to learn as much as possible about the spirit of the school that calls itself “the Ivy League without the ivory tower.” As is the case for any Ivy League school, the competition to gain admission is fierce. UPENN CAS 2025!!!!! Thanks again!!!!!!"

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BestColleges

MARCH 27, 2024

USF plans to open the college on all of its campuses in fall 2025 if everything goes as planned with governance and board of trustees approval. It even enrolled its first two first-year virtual students, Ann and Fry, who will learn alongside real students and choose their educational paths.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every year, thousands of students from around the globe send in their applications, hoping to land a spot at this Ivy League school. The idea behind this is that UPenn values students who are genuinely eager to enroll, so they give those applicants a slightly better shot at acceptance. No backing out. Stay informed.

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Admissions Village

JULY 22, 2024

Recently an article came out in Forbes which explained that all colleges, including the Ivy League, will get slightly easier to get into because of the impending demographic cliff. 43% of high school completers immediately enrolled in 4-year institutions and 19% immediately enrolled in 2-year institutions. We disagree.

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BestColleges

MARCH 26, 2024

Dartmouth said the new policy will benefit about 350 families of currently enrolled students. One-quarter of the gift will go to the Tuck School of Business to fund scholarships for students with higher financial burdens, like first-generation students — who make up 19% of the school's class of 2025.

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 20, 2024

Even within the Ivy League there is division: Brown University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , and Yale University have all returned to requiring test scores while Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University remain test-optional (at least for now). Test-aware?

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What we know: a total of 1,500 students enrolled in the Class of 2026 – the largest class ever. As a measure of comparison, the Class of 2025 admissions cycle saw 1,647 students admitted for an overall acceptance rate of 4.38%, and, of these, 1,345, or 3.58% of total applicants, enrolled. ENROLL NOW. LEARN MORE.

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