BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights by Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), alleges the practice violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What's more, Students for Fair Admissions mentioned legacy admissions specifically in its complaint against Harvard. The complaint, filed with the U.S.

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Expert Admissions

MARCH 30, 2023

Most of the Seven Sisters schools were founded in the 19th century as academically rigorous counterpoints to male-only Ivy League colleges. Admissions Profile Average GPA: 3.75 Test Scores (mid-50% range): 1370-1530 SAT/ 31-34 ACT Admit Rate: 29% Test-optional? Yes Offers Early Admissions?

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The Ivy Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here at the Ivy Dean, there has been much cause for celebration recently: we helped our students to achieve phenomenal early acceptance results for the Class of 2026. While not surprising, these results are noteworthy given the current and unprecedented higher education climate.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Don’t apply to Princeton just because you want to attend an Ivy League school; apply because of how your interests and goals align with the mission of the school and its academic offerings. Moreover, the Classes of ’23 and ’22 were filled 57.15% and 61.46%, respectively, by early admissions. LEARN MORE.

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Expert Admissions

MARCH 23, 2023

Native American less than 3% Most Popular Majors: Economics, Government, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, History Motto: Veritas (“Truth”) History: Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university. Admissions Profile Average GPA: 4.2 Yes Offers Early Admissions?

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 22, 2024

MIT REGULAR DECISION ACCEPTANCE RATE For those considering applying early to MIT next year, it’s important to know that 12,563 students applied early to the MIT Class of 2028 and 661 were offered early admission for a slightly higher acceptance rate of 5.26%. Meanwhile, 8,052 applicants were deferred — 64.1%

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The Ivy Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Changes to standardized testing: Many colleges went test-optional this year, giving applicants the choice whether or not to include SAT or ACT scores. Changes in early acceptance rates: As I explained in my previous blog post , schools in the Ivy League received a record number of early admission applications this year.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 1, 2024

Since 2018, the university has ceased disclosing acceptance rates in real time, instead waiting months after admissions decisions have been made to report publicly available data. Both decreased from the year prior when 49% of enrolled students submitted SAT scores and 23% submitted ACT scores.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Even with top scores and strong grades, a deferral simply highlights how incredibly competitive the early admission landscape has become. After all, being deferred means you are still in the running for possible admission in a few months! Retaking the SAT or ACT, if necessary.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, you can expect that acceptance into the University of Pennsylvania’s Bio-Dental Program will be much more difficult as an applicant to Penn, an Ivy League university with an overall acceptance rate of 6 percent, than as an applicant to Muhlenberg College , which accepts 65 percent of applicants as of the class of 2026.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

The student agrees to withdraw all other applications, and not accept any other offers of admission. Early action programs are a hybrid. Students may apply early under these early action (EA) programs and receive an early admissions decision. So why, then, do colleges like the early decision process?

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CTK College Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Early Admissions Trends for the Class of 2024: How are colleges handling the massive increase in applications? SAT, ACT, and test optional: with Dartmouth now requiring test scores, will the test optional trend reverse? Reach out to me if you want my advice on whether, when, and how to prepare for the SAT or ACT.

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BestColleges

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite more than 300 schools extending their admission deadlines as well as waiving SAT/ACT requirements in hopes of retaining numbers, undergraduate enrollment dropped considerably. Number of Standardized Test-Takers, 2019-2022 Year SAT ACT GRE 2019 2.2 million 341,574 Source: College Board [14] , [15] , [16] , ACT Inc. [17]

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 11, 2023

First, it initially differentiates between early decision and early action (the latter being nonbinding), yet the bill's subsequent language seems to imply only universities offering early decision would face sanctions, unless "early decision" is shorthand for both. The complaint, filed with the U.S. for non-legacies.

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