Great College Advice
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Your Application is Deferred. As early admissions decisions have come over the last few weeks, many students are not being admitted or denied admission. Welcome to the purgatory of college admissions. Basically, the college is telling you that it has been unable to make a final decision on your application.
Top Tier Admissions
MARCH 22, 2024
The elite college admissions landscape has never been more competitive (or more confusing for applicants to navigate). The higher acceptance rate in the Early Action pool suggests a Regular Decision acceptance rate of roughly 3-4%. Meanwhile, 8,052 applicants were deferred — 64.1% of applicants. “I
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Top Tier Admissions
DECEMBER 1, 2022
You submitted your Early Decision and Early Action applications, and you are now resisting the urge to refresh your email as you await good news. Even with top scores and strong grades, a deferral simply highlights how incredibly competitive the early admission landscape has become. You did it! Take heart!
CTK College Coach
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
It’s been another wild ride for 2024 high school seniors, and we’re only halfway through the admissions cycle. Whether you have been deferred in the early action round or are just waiting for your regular decision outcomes, it is completely normal to not hear from many schools until March or even the first week of April.
DC College Counseling
DECEMBER 5, 2023
December’s arrival means students are finishing up any remaining regular decision supplemental essays and applications. While we all hope that the early admission decisions will bring good news, it takes some of the pressure off to know that all of the essays are finished, no matter what. Early decision applications rose by 4.4
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.
The Koppelman Group
DECEMBER 9, 2023
The reason given for this decision was stress reduction, and a desire to shift the focus of the admissions process away from acceptance rates. As of 2021 , the last time the Cornell Daily Sun published anything on acceptance rates, there were over 67,000 applicants to the undergraduate programs in total, and the acceptance rate was 8.7%.
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