Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 20, 2023

Since the 1950s, Ivy League schools have been using a secret ranking formula called the Academic Index (AI). The Academic Index was designed specifically to regulate athletic recruitment (in the Ivy League colleges, 15-20% of the first-year class is made up of recruited athletes for their sports teams).

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This is the first Ivy League school to return to requiring test scores since the pandemic pause (Georgetown, MIT, Purdue, and the public schools in FL and GA returned quickly to requiring testing or never stopped requiring it in the first place). Sophomores looking ahead to fall testing are starting to prep.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is the first Ivy League school to return to requiring test scores since the pandemic pause (Georgetown, MIT, Purdue, and the public schools in FL and GA returned quickly to requiring testing or never stopped requiring it in the first place). Sophomores looking ahead to fall testing are starting to prep.

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Last year its acceptance rate plummeted to 33% for out-of-state students , less than half of what it was the year before. Other schools, like Clemson and the University of South Carolina , are deferring high percentages of out-of-state students as their application numbers soar.

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