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IB vs. AP Classes: Which Should You Take?

HelloCollege

There is no standard requirement for how many you take, so it depends on what your high school offers, your school’s individual policies regarding eligibility for AP courses, and your interests/academic strengths. Both are seen as rigorous, college-preparatory courses and will stand out on your transcript.

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Applying to Northwestern as an International Student

The Koppelman Group

We’re here to help you make sense of the process and pull together an acceptance-earning application. They receive over 50,000 applications for first-year undergrads every year, and the acceptance rate is only 7%. You may know you want to be an engineer, but they want to see the full range of academic disciplines on your transcript.

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Duke Legacy Strategy

The Koppelman Group

Most schools have a slightly higher acceptance rate for legacies than for non-legacy students. While Duke has never published any numbers about their own admissions, a researcher at Duke did a study on legacy admissions at Harvard and published their legacy acceptance rate. Well, it mostly breaks down to an industry standard.

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Dartmouth Legacy Strategy

The Koppelman Group

The short answer is no one knows Dartmouth's current legacy acceptance rate. Most schools do not like to publish a legacy acceptance rate as it is ~controversial~. Back in 2012, the acceptance rate was about 13% meaning the legacy acceptance rate was about 26%. Second, the overall acceptance rate has fallen.

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UPenn Legacy Strategy

The Koppelman Group

Since we have never seen an Ivy League school accept more than 30% of legacies, that means at these top schools the majority of legacies don’t get in. Get Serious about Grades So if you are searching around the internet, you may see that UPenn’s average accepted GPA is 3.9. We bring up this slightly unrelated statistic as a marker.