Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Why am I re-taking the SAT/ACT? 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.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 14, 2025

In this article, well unpack why MIT doesnt consider legacy admissions, explore some stats (like the MIT Common Data Set and MIT deferral rates), and share tips on how to crush your MIT application. MIT is one of the few elite institutions that doesnt have legacy admissions because it holds steadfast to a meritocratic admissions process.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Applications for freshman admission increased 24.3% SAT Tutoring Expert one-on-one guidance to boost your score. Standardized test scores dont change admissions decisions for automatic admits , but they are used to match these students to their choice of majors. this year, for a staggering total of 90,562 applications.

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 5, 2024

How do college waitlists work ? How do colleges decide who is admitted off the waitlist? How can I increase my chances of admission ? Read more college admissions tips on our blog ! Waitlisted? Here’s What You Should Know Were you waitlisted and are you now wondering about your odds? Don’t panic.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

Scooter adventure in Tabanan, Bali On March 11, 2024, UT-Austin announced significant changes for the upcoming Freshman Fall 2025 admissions cycle. As of writing, UT has not updated it’s admissions page yet. Early Action deadline of October 15 with a guarantee to receive the admissions decision by January 15.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 15, 2024

UT AUSTIN: STANDARDIZED TESTING REQUIRED After four years of test-optional admissions for undergraduate admissions, the University of Texas at Austin will once again require standardized testing scores , beginning with applications for the Fall 2025 semester. SAT Tutoring Expert one-on-one guidance to boost your score.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 12, 2024

Decisions for transfer students have not yet been released and waitlist decisions will be released once admitted students accept or decline their offers. I imagine we will see a rise in students signing up for additional ACT and SAT tests to boost scores. SAT Tutoring Expert one-on-one guidance to boost your score.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

One of the worst parts about college admissions is that tens of thousands of applicants will neither be admitted nor denied outright. Most early applicants are deferred until the regular admissions deadline when their application is considered among all other applicants. Brown admitted only 7 percent of deferred students, for example.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 1, 2024

That tiny number highlights how selective the admissions process is and how wildly popular Yale is among top-tier students aiming for the Ivy League. Here, we’ll break down Yale’s acceptance rate, explore how it’s changed over time, and share some practical tips to help boost your chances of standing out to admissions. 2027 52,303 4.5%

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 12, 2024

This admissions cycle has made clear just how selective these colleges have become. of students were admitted through Regular Decision due to the university’s increasing yield rate (up around 17% in the last 10 admissions cycles). Tulane will be test-optional again for Fall 2025 admission. Try Application Boot Camp®.

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 14, 2019

What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? If a college realizes they may fall short of their enrollment target, they can accept students from their waitlist to fill the gap. So – I'm on the waitlist. Essentially, you can reply to the waitlist offer one of two ways: 1. “No, No, thanks!”

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Humbach Education Consulting

MARCH 13, 2020

What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Why do colleges have waitlists? If a college realizes they may fall short of their enrollment target, they can accept students from their waitlist to fill the gap. So – I'm on the waitlist. Essentially, you can reply to the waitlist offer one of two ways: 1. “No,

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Well dig into trends, compare Early Decision to Regular Decision rates, and explore transfer and waitlist stats. This high yield rate isnt just a fun stat for the admissions office. ED applicants have a clear advantagetheyre signaling their commitment to Dartmouth as their top choice, which the admissions team tends to reward.

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

Part 3: This Process Is Opaque In the first part of this series, we discussed the role that the rise of test-optional (it is now optional to submit standardized test scores, SAT or ACT, at most colleges) has played in opening up the applicant pool to highly selective colleges. What can we say about test-optional admissions policies today?

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 17, 2024

773 students — just 1.34% of applicants — were offered a spot on the waitlist according to the Yale Daily News. The diverse range of strengths, ambitions, and lived experiences we saw in this year’s applicant pool was inspiring,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan said in the press release. “We

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

But you are obviously aware of how competitive Penn is because you’re here for something else – waitlist info. Before we talk about how to get off the waitlist, let’s dive into their recent data re: waitlist. Out of those 2,508 students, 147 were admitted off the waitlist. You gotta tell them that you wanna be there!

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 26, 2024

Make sure to accept your waitlist spot! Read more college admissions tips on our blog ! What should you do if you’re on a college waitlist? The coronavirus pandemic has upended the college admissions process this year. Submit a deposit to another school. Only focus on things in your control! MOST IMPORTANT!

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 11, 2024

Anyways, you’re here because you got waitlisted by Colorado College (CC for short), and you want to know your odds of getting off the waitlist and how to get off the waitlist. This is important context for the waitlist because the waitlist is designed to fill spots when not enough accepted students enroll to fill out a class.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 3, 2024

For the 2022-2023 admissions cycle, they had a 10% acceptance rate. But you’re not here to know overall acceptance data – you’re here to learn about the CMC waitlist and how to get off of it. Thankfully, CMC actually shares their waitlist data, so we know that in 2022, 850 students were offered a spot on their waitlist.

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Elite Open School

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While all applications eventually end in one of these results, applicants are often either first deferred or waitlisted along the way. What does it mean to be deferred or waitlisted to college? And if you’ve been waitlisted to your dream college, what should you do? Step #2: Understand why you’ve been waitlisted.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2023

There’s so much advice floating around about waitlists and letters of continued interest. Sometimes you can tell when the advice is being dispensed from someone who hasn’t ever sat on the admissions side of the table. So the priorities for the admissions officer are: fill that open seat, and fill it quickly.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We aren’t going to sugarcoat it; being waitlisted is not fun. Boston University is one of those schools that is getting more popular every year, which can lead to a long waitlist. What's the first thing you need to do when you are waitlisted? It's a hard pill to swallow, but you shouldn’t rely on BU's waitlist.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Well also give you tips to help boost your odds, break down important deadlines, and share insights into transfer and waitlist stats. Caltechs admissions process is about as tough as it gets. Unlike some schools, Caltech keeps the specifics of its Early Action (EA) and Regular Decision (RD) admissions under wraps.

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SSA Online College Prep

JANUARY 26, 2024

What should I write about to get myself off the waitlist and accepted by the college? Whom in the admissions office do I send my essay to ? Read more college admissions tips on our blog ! What should you do if you’re on a college waitlist? And that means every college’s waitlist is INCREDIBLY long this year!

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

With all the hard work they’ve put into setting themselves up for successful college admissions, it’s important that your child not fall behind during this critical period. ACT or the College Board for the SATs) and university website for up-to-date offerings and application deadlines. Study for ACT or SAT.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MIT Acceptance Rate Trends MIT Regular Decision Acceptance Rate MIT Early Action Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into MIT MIT Transfer Acceptance Rate MIT Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is MIT’s Acceptance Rate? MIT’s admissions process is holistic, which means they’re looking beyond just your grades.

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Ivy Central

JUNE 13, 2023

Admissions Acceptance Rate Williams College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round and admitted 858 students. Applicants who accept their offers of admission will join the 255 incoming students admitted through the early decision program in December to form the Class of 2027. Start today!

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here is a timeline to stay on track and, hopefully, make the college admissions process a little easier. JUNIOR YEAR September - January Schedule and sit for standardized ACT or SAT tests if the student is taking them. Here is a list of colleges and universities that are standardized test-optional for the upcoming admissions cycle.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this guide, we’ll unpack the numbers behind Stanford’s acceptance rate, looking at everything from Regular Decision and Early Action stats to transfer and waitlist rates. Of the 2,099 students offered admission, 1,699 chose to join the incoming class. You’ll also get practical advice on crafting an application that stands out.

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Top Tier Admissions

AUGUST 30, 2024

52% of applicants submitted SAT scores while 18% submitted ACT scores. By working on your applications now , you will be able to reap the benefit of increased odds in the early round of admissions. Top Tier Admissions is tracking the 2024-2025 supplemental essay prompts for all top schools here — we look forward to supporting you !

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Brown Acceptance Rate Trends Brown Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Brown Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into Brown Brown Transfer Acceptance Rate Brown Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is Browns Acceptance Rate? This marks the third-lowest rate in Browns history, just behind 5.1%

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you were denied admission by your early round target school, you are not alone. For example, in a new policy UVA noted this year that “applicants will receive a decision of admit, waitlist or deny for all application rounds (Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular Decision). Schools such as UVA (up 4.4% RD) or Yale (<4.3%

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Harvard average ACT score: 34 25th percentile: 33 75th percentile: 35 Harvard average SAT score: 1520 25th percentile: 1460 75th percentile: 1580 It should be noted that ACT and SAT tests are now optional at Harvard. In the meantime, please let us know how we can help you crack the the college admissions code.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I looked forward to those meetings the way you look forward to taking an SAT- that is to say- not at all. And their desire- or hunger as it were (really just wrote this entire blog to use that phrase)- for choices and options explains a lot about your college admission experience. But they don’t call it Fair Admissions.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 22, 2024

The elite college admissions landscape has never been more competitive (or more confusing for applicants to navigate). MIT offered admission to 1,275 students, for an overall acceptance rate of 4.5% (slightly lower than last year’s 4.8%). Peterson said MIT placed a “modest number” of applicants on their waitlist.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JULY 28, 2022

From an enrollment and admission standpoint this is also true. Our application count was lower, our admit rate was higher, and as a result our review process, admission timeline, and staff structure all looked radically different than today. What are your admission requirements? But I can still make you a promise. An open mind.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Continue reading to discover the Boston University acceptance rate, the Boston University average GPA, and how your child can boost their BU admissions odds. In the meantime, please let us know how we can help you crack the college admissions code. You can also learn more about our 1-on-1 college admissions support here.

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