Top Tier Admissions

JULY 19, 2024

VANDERBILT: RECORD-LOW ACCEPTANCE RATE While initially declining to report Early Decision statistics , we now know that Vanderbilt received 5,835 ED applicants to the Class of 2028, the most in its history. of students in the Regular Decision admissions round, for an overall acceptance rate of just 5.1%.

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tulane’s Gibson Hall Tulane will release Early Decision II (EDII) notifications to first-year applicants on Monday, February 5, at 5:00 p.m. Tulane also prioritized avoided waitlisting students EDII applicants who were deferred in the Early Action round as to not leave them in limbo for a second time.

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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.

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Berkeley² Academy

MARCH 2, 2024

Applying to colleges with early decision, early action, or rolling decision deadlines may have gotten you responses from some schools as early as December or January! Now, other early decision, regular decision, and rolling decision deadlines will be preparing to release results in February, March, or early April.

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Spark Admissions

JULY 7, 2022

Many colleges rejected astoundingly large numbers of applicants this year, sending shockwaves through schools and communities. For most of these schools, their record-low acceptance rates in the 2021-2022 application cycle followed multiple years of increasing selectivity, suggesting these trends will likely be lasting.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 21, 2023

See Williams’ official announcement below: The College admitted 858 students on March 17 through its regular decision process, according to Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services Liz Creighton ’01. This year, the College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round, a decline of more than a quarter since last year.

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Ivy College Essay

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Early Action or Early Decision: Ivy College Admissions. Choosing Early Action over Early Decision can be confusing. Early Action and Early Decision are both college application STRATEGIES. Early Action versus Early Decision: The Definitions. I think yes.

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Amherst receives nearly 14,000 applications for first-year admissions, and about 10% of those are submitted in the Early Decision round. At Amherst there are two potential outcomes for an Early Decision application: acceptance or deferral. Early Decision applications that are not accepted are deferred.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2024

Should you apply to medical school via early decision? Pros and cons Part 4: Early decision application strategies Part 5: Frequently asked questions about early decision for medical school Part 6: List of early decision medical schools - Part 1: Introduction What is the Early Decision Program for medical school?

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Bowdoin offers Early Decision I and Early Decision II application options, and they defer students who are neither accepted nor denied from each round to the regular decision cycle. Every year , “many applications with the defer decision are admitted in RD.” This process isn’t lip service.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The acceptance rate for the NYU Class of 2028 was 8% , with three of the undergraduate colleges accepting fewer than 5% of applicants from a pool of nearly 120,000. They have also experienced a massive surge in Early Decision applicants, likely related to the decreasing acceptances at top colleges across the board nationally.

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the college spy

MAY 20, 2020

Colleges utilize five types of application deadlines. Early Decision (ED) Applications are due between October 15 and November 15 (check each college’s website). Students are notified by mid-December as to whether they were admitted, rejected or deferred to the Regular Decision round.

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You didn’t know if you would get into Carnegie Mellon Early Decision, but at least if you didn’t get in, you’d know where you stood. In this post, we’ll give you the map you need to have a successful college application experience and increase your chances of getting into Carnegie Mellon in the Regular Decision round.

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You applied to Swarthmore Early Decision because you wanted an answer, early. But now you’re here, with a deferral decision, and everything is up in the air. You can even pull your application if you want. And if there are things you can do to strengthen your application, even better.

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Solomon Admissions

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Imagine this: You’ve spent months perfectly crafting your college applications and are anxiously waiting for your first set of admissions decisions to arrive. Instead of a cheery acceptance letter or even a denial, however, you find that you’ve been deferred (or waitlisted). Deferred vs. Waitlisted What do these decisions mean?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 10, 2024

And while students do get waitlisted, it’s really tough to get off the Carnegie Mellon waitlist. All waitlists are hard to get off. News & World Report , Carnegie Mellon is one of the top 10 hardest schools in America to get off the waitlist. For the 2022-2023 year, 8,986 applicants were wait-listed.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Last year, in the 2022-2023 application cycle, the accepted rate was just 15%. In fact, we’re guessing you recently received a waitlist decision from Boston College and are trying to decide what to do next. First, though, let’s get the ‘lay of the land’ for the BC waitlist. Just 13 were eventually admitted —.1%

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DC College Counseling

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Over the next few weeks, many schools will release their early application decisions - especially those with binding early decision plans (some non-binding early action decisions will not come in until January or even February). You agreed to do this when you signed the early decision form.

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StandOut College Prep

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As shared in the post about early admissions, if you apply to college during Early Action and Early Decision cycles , you will face a lot of competition. When more students apply early, you’re also likely to be deferred from at least one college. Have you been deferred or waitlisted from college?

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Don’t panic though, their acceptance rate has gone down because their number of applicants has grown over the last 11 years. This year, they accepted 850 students for the 2023 freshman class, with an Early Decision acceptance rate of 26%. If you’ve been placed on a waitlist, reach out to us.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So you have been waitlisted at UVA; you might be asking yourself, ok, what do I do now? Getting waitlisted isn’t fun, we’re sorry. UVA actually publishes a sizable list of FAQs about their waitlist. They are very transparent about their waitlist, which is honestly refreshing. Who is on the waitlist right now?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 4, 2024

Being waitlisted can be a pretty stressful process, especially if it’s for your dream school. In this article, we’ve put together some tips and information that will help you have the best chance of turning your waitlist notice into an acceptance letter. It’s neither a guarantee nor a rejection, so the uncertainty can be overwhelming.

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ACM College Consulting

JULY 3, 2024

We spoke about all things related to the college application and have some great advice for students and their families. Check out the video for top college application tips for 2024 related to: Score choice vs sending all scores Should you go test-optional? and so much more!

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 2, 2023

In the 2022 application cycle, they received more than 50,500 applications and admitted just 2,500 students for an overall acceptance rate of just 5% ( a record low , continuing more than a decade-long decline in acceptance rate). Historically, the waitlist has been a key part of Brown’s admissions strategy.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Applying to college and going through the college application timeline is excruciatingly overwhelming, especially if you don’t have someone like a parent or older sibling who’s been through it to guide you. Curious if you’re keeping up with everything you need to do for college applications during senior year?

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

All Fall 2025 freshman applicants must submit an official SAT or ACT directly from the testing agency to be eligible for admission. Applicants do not need to submit the writing section. Early Action deadline of October 15 with a guarantee to receive the admissions decision by January 15. My primary concern is the timing.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 1, 2025

UChicago Acceptance Rate Trends UChicago Regular Decision Acceptance Rate UChicago Early Action Acceptance Rate UChicago Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into UChicago UChicago Transfer Acceptance Rate UChicago Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is UChicagos Acceptance Rate?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 7, 2023

Most recently, 46% of the class was filled in the early decision cycle and the acceptance rate for that cohort was 19% , an all-time low for the university. This rise in exclusivity has impacted the waitlist process, too. Those aren’t great odds, so you should probably call-in help if you’re eyeing a shot at the waitlist.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You will need it for summer jobs, and it can be helpful when meeting with people about your college applications. Begin creating your Activities List for college applications. Draft your personal statement for the Common Application. Try to decide whether and where you will apply Early Decision (ED) or Early Action (EA).

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Elite Open School

DECEMBER 21, 2020

After all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into our college applications, we can’t help but dream of that special moment when we receive our coveted letters of acceptance. there are more potential outcomes to our applications than either outright acceptances or rejections. What does it mean to be deferred or waitlisted to college?

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Applying to Wesleyan early took time and effort, and this can feel like a major setback. Make no mistake, Wesleyan’s admissions office is still seriously considering your application. Contact us here for specialized help with all things related to college applications. Once you have an application completed, submit it!

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MAY 27, 2024

Worse still- you may see people get into a college you really wanted to go to or get selected for a scholarship you were hoping to receive, while you are dealing with the disappointment of being deferred or denied or waitlisted. Bottom line is college admission is not all about applications or test scores or college decision letters.

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CTK College Coach

JUNE 27, 2024

While Yale, Cal Tech, and Haverford will want to see the highest rigor in courses across the board (along with As), not every school will, and getting Cs and Ds instead of As and Bs will make life much harder for the college applicant. Be patient: deferrals and waitlists Oh, the agony of the deferral! How Do I Pick the Right Courses?

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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. Many of these issues come down to Early Decision and Action processes that I discussed in the previous video. Another tool in the enrollment manager’s kit is the elusive waitlist.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For students who take advantage of the early admissions rounds, there are four possible outcomes: acceptance, denial, deferral, or direct-to-waitlist (a rarer option used at a few schools like UNC). Across the more competitive schools, roughly 10% of deferred students are ultimately accepted in the regular decision round.

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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. Admission Rate: The proportion of the pool of applicants that is admitted to the college.

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Ivy College Essay

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What to Do if You Are Waitlisted – Ivy League College Admissions Letter of Continued Interest: The College Waitlist What to do if you are waitlisted? College waitlists can be a frustrating experience for students. However, being waitlisted is not necessarily the end of the road. The adcom is BUSY.

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