Remove Acceptance Remove ACT Remove High School
article thumbnail

Financial Aid Timeline for High School Seniors

Great College Advice

The financial aid timeline for high school seniors is critical if you want to maximize the amount of financial aid for which you are eligible. The FAFSA typically opens on October 1 but for 2024-2025 it opens on December 1 (although they are now accepting applications in late November).

article thumbnail

Yale University Acceptance Rate & Admission Requirements Guide

Spark Admissions

At the same time, you know the acceptance rate at Yale is very low. Is your SAT score or ACT score high enough to get into Yale? What about your high school GPA? The admissions process at Ivy League schools seems hard to understand. How do schools like Yale choose who to accept?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

To Test or Not To Test in 2023-24? Deciding if you want to go Test-Optional

Ivy Central

Recently, Columbia University was the first Ivy League to no longer require SAT/ACT testing as of 2023-24 and will be test-optional permanently. On the face of the above information, it would appear that including a test score greatly increases your chances of acceptance. If you need further guidance contact the Ivy Central team.

Testing 243
article thumbnail

Stanford’s Acceptance Rate Continues to Drop

Ivy Central

The acceptance rates of Stanford University's Class of 2024, Class of 2025, and the Class of 2026 portray the changing landscape of admissions at Stanford. According to Stanford University's 2022-2023 Common Data Set, the undergraduate acceptance rate for the Class of 2026 hit a historic low of 3.68%. Start today!

article thumbnail

My Son Applied to Colleges Alone: A Cautionary Tale

Grown & Flown

Guess what the ACT did Mom, they sent my scores to the wrong school. Given that administering tests and sending scores is the entire scope of the ACT Board, I was not jumping on the hate bandwagon just yet. I fell in love with the school when we were there. That was until I got this gem of a text in early December.

Minor 246
article thumbnail

Top Summer Programmes: Simons Summer Research Program

Ivy Central

The Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University is an outstanding opportunity open to US citizens and permanent residents, attending high school who are interested in pursuing careers in science, mathematics, and engineering. Students who have completed their junior year and are at least 16 years old are eligible to apply.

Programs 241
article thumbnail

Thoughts On What 2023 College Admissions Tell Us About Future Applications

Ivy Central

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. Start today!