Top Tier Admissions

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At Top Tier Admissions, we take pride in our team of expert counselors who bring a wealth of experience, knowledge, and passion to guiding families through the college admissions process. Shannon Kennedy has over 25 years of experience in the college admissions field.

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Enrollment Catalyst

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From Inquiry to Enrollment: Understanding the Admissions Sales Process In today’s competitive educational landscape, effectively managing the admissions sales process is crucial for private school success. Join me for an insightful webinar where I will guide you through the critical stages of the admissions process.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Dear Class of 2025, The college admissions process can feel like a whirlwind—deadlines, decisions, expectations—it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos. When Michele and I founded Top Tier Admissions over 20 years ago, our goal was to disrupt the college admissions process by creating transparency.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The latest Columbia acceptance rate is only 3.85%, making it one of the hardest schools to gain admission to. Columbia University is known for its cutthroat admissions process, and the numbers for the Class of 2028 just drive that point home. Every year, thousands of students dream of getting into Columbia University.

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Ruffaloni

JUNE 20, 2024

How do students and families perceive the admissions process? This one takes a closer look at the admissions experience. Experience with admissions The first impression that students and their families have of the college is through their experience with the admissions office.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This application season, we’re watching to see how a few things will play out: the reintroduction of the SAT/ACT requirement at several top schools, the drop in enrollments of Black and Latino students, the California ban on legacy admissions , and the predicted “enrollment cliff.”

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Enrollment Builders

AUGUST 20, 2024

Do you worry something is wrong with your higher ed admissions strategies but don’t know how to improve them? Are you unhappy with your enrollment rate of prospective students? You’re not alone!

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

JUNE 7, 2024

Whether it’s making a college list, visiting a college to tour campus, or speaking with an admissions representative, students need to take the lead in the process, while the parents need to step into the background. How could I, a life-long admissions person, sit back and keep quiet on an admissions tour?

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 4, 2024

I recently hosted Top Tier Admissions’ “Ask Me Anything” webinar, where we dove deep into the importance of having a solid early admissions strategy and all the perks that come with it. It was an open floor, where parents and students could literally ask me anything about the college admissions process.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Grades and Course Rigor Matter the Most in College Admissions The most recent National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) State of College Admission Report updated its four-year college members’ survey of the Factors in the Admission Decision. College admissions officers read and re-read your transcript.

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Solomon Admissions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When putting together an incoming first-year class, college admissions officers spend a significant amount of time evaluating hundreds of factors to determine an applicant’s competitiveness for their institution. While many of these factors are important, it’s hard to overstate the value of leadership in college admissions.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 9, 2024

At Top Tier Admissions our goal is to help make the college admissions process more transparent and in this case, as we dive into acceptance rates data and admissions statistics from this most recent application cycle, we noticed a few UC admissions trends that we felt compelled to share with you.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Instead, after watching this cycle repeat itself, here are the three direct messages/ primary hopes I have for juniors entering the college admission experience. The college admission search is internal. Nothing happens to you in college admission. Nothing happens to you in college admission. Seniors did this.

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Enrollment Builders

JUNE 24, 2024

Is there a disconnect between your institution’s marketing department and admissions team? Do you worry about whether your enrollment marketing strategies are providing qualified prospects for your admissions counselors to engage with?

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Enrollment Builders

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Your admissions team has an appointment scheduled with an interested prospective student … now what? Will the prospective student answer the call when the appointment time rolls around? Does the prospective student understand the importance of the call?

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s a piece of writing that you undertake for a very specific purpose: to give college admissions officers the evidence they need in order to admit you to their school. In order to write the most compelling essay that you can, it is crucial to ask: what do college admissions look for in an essay? That is not a good strategy.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

I’ll likely get to the forecasting and unapologetic optimism in a few weeks, but unfortunately this year started the way they all have in college admission — with most nationally known and high-demand colleges posting January 1 deadlines. ” It’s a signal of laziness at best– and negligence or hubris at worst.

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Ivy Central

APRIL 6, 2023

It’s the practice whereby some colleges consider factors such as race when making admissions decisions so that they can increase the diversity of their student population. There is a move through the US Supreme Court that could ban colleges from using affirmative action, and considering special factors when making admissions decisions.

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 16, 2024

Letters of recommendation play a vital role in a student’s successful college or grad school admissions journey. When asked what he’s looking for when reviewing a letter of recommendation as part of graduate admissions at Brown University, Dr. Michael Satlow revealed he looks for three things: confirmation, context and insight.

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Enrollment Builders

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We spent an enormous amount of energy and resources on generating new leads for my admissions team. Why didn’t they enroll and what can my admissions team do to increase these conversion rates? Institutions often ask: Why do only 8% of our leads convert into students?

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Spark Admissions

JUNE 20, 2023

The admissions process at Ivy League schools seems hard to understand. Below, we’ve condensed everything we know about the Yale University admissions process. In 2018, the overall acceptance rate at Yale was only 5.9%, meaning admissions officers rejected 94 out of every 100 students who applied. What about your high school GPA?

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Solomon Admissions

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Admission committees utilize various resources to comprehensively evaluate an applicant, extending beyond the materials submitted directly by the student. One important resource is the Secondary School Report (SSR), and it’s helpful for students and parents to understand its role in the admission process.

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Admissions Village

JUNE 19, 2024

Admissions/Application Language*: Acceptance/Admission: An offer of admission to a college for its incoming class. Admissions Decision: The outcome determined by a college's admissions committee regarding a student's application. For more about activities read our past blog.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 15, 2023

Apparently, months ago when I agreed to these programs and presentations, I either did not realize they were all bunched together, or I forgot that April in Admissions Land is chaos. In many cases they do have nine admission lives, and honestly, have you seen what they eat? but a magic wand? Cats, I say. Forget Beer Goggles.

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North Star Admissions Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

Looking for great MBA admissions advice? but personally having a conversation with my admissions consultant was the deciding factor to lean into my personality and writing style. Admissions committees want to understand who you are as a person. Hello blog readers! To figure this out, I did a lot of googling, reddit, etc.,

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Ivy College Essay

MARCH 25, 2024

Ivy Admissions Day Understanding Ivy Admissions Day For countless high school seniors, the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and aspirations is encapsulated in a single day known as Ivy Admissions Day. Anticipation Builds Ivy Admissions Day, this year falling on March 28th, is an event shrouded in significance.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

What is legacy admissions? Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. In addition, legacy admissions is a sort of business strategy. apply for admission. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

An admission committee is a group of professionals tasked with evaluating student applications. Admission committees consist of admissions officers and sometimes faculty members, particularly at Ivy League schools, who collectively decide which students are accepted. ” How Long Do Admissions Officers Read Applications?

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College Success

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

When it comes to college admissions in the U.S., Many colleges and universities, especially selective ones, embrace a holistic admissions approach, considering a wide range of factors to evaluate applicants. The post Understanding Holistic Admissions appeared first on Kate Sonnenberg College Admissions Success.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Every year we hear stories from students who say they were discouraged from applying to schools ranked below number X; or decided only to apply to schools within the Top 10 in a particular field; or were pressured to ultimately choose the highest ranked school from which they received on offer of admission. Sound ridiculous?

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MIT Acceptance Rate Trends Over the past decade, the MIT acceptance rate has taken a nosedive, making an already tough admissions process even more competitive. MIT’s admissions process is holistic, which means they’re looking beyond just your grades. 2027 26,914 4.7% 2026 33,767 3.9% 2025 33,240 4% 2024 20,075 7.3% 2023 21,312 6.6%

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Top Tier Admissions

AUGUST 27, 2024

FREE TOP TIER ADMISSIONS WEBINAR TONIGHT For most students, writing the Personal Statement is the first major application task they’ll undertake. The post Back to School with Top Tier Admissions appeared first on Top Tier Admissions. Here’s to a fantastic and fulfilling school year!

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Offers of Admission: Approximately 9,000 Total EA Admits -This is somewhat more than last year’s admitted numbers for both In-State and Out-of-State acceptances. I have a previous blog post on how admissions calculates the UGA GPA for your reference. Quick Early Action Numbers (These numbers are mid-ranges, not minimums.)

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Tex Admissions

MAY 26, 2024

View from my house in Bali My freshmen Fall 2024 clients had the strongest outcomes of any admissions cycle. Although UT received the most applications and had the lowest admissions rate ever, 24 out of 37 of my clients (65%) gained admission to their first-choice UT major. Louis, and Tulane Honors with scholarships.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Now that we have reflected on the shifting landscape of college admissions in 2023 , let’s look ahead to 2024 and three key predictions for the year ahead. As we close out the year, we’re especially proud of our growth at Top Tier Admissions to better serve our students and their families.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MARCH 25, 2023

In March and April, college admission is full of decisions. Focus on Admission A few years ago, my friend and colleague Akil Bello coined the phrase “highly rejective” colleges. Some students did not complete their application, some canceled before we could make an admission decision, and some are currently waitlisted.

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Solomon Admissions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

What you need to know about the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) – updated to include the structural changes implemented in August 2024. The LSAT is the test required for admission to every law school in the United States.

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