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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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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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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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Knowing what the acceptance rates look like can help set realistic expectations and guide you in crafting a stronger, more targeted application. The Columbia acceptance rate for this class was a mere 3.85%: out of a massive 60,248 applicants, only 2,319 were let in. What Is Columbia’s Acceptance Rate? Let’s break it down a bit.

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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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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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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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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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Princeton College Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While being deferred or waitlisted can be disappointing and in many respects can feel like a rejection, it is important to understand what being deferred or waitlisted means. Typically, a student who is deferred may still have a very strong application but the admissions committee feels they need to see a bit more from that student.

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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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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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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition to being two of their toughest academic years, your child will be tasked with maximizing their standardized test scores, continuing to pursue high-impact extracurricular activities, securing recommendation letters, and working on their college applications by writing essay upon essay. Rather than include general advice (e.g., “Put

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois, finalized is Regular Decision selection process and notified applicants of their decisions today, Friday, March 24. Last year Northwestern reviewed 51,554 applications. Northwestern’s Fall 2022 ED applicant pool grew by 3.5% to just over 5,200 applicants.

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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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Spark Admissions

MAY 30, 2023

Meanwhile, many additional colleges, from Boston University to University of Virginia (UVA) to the University of Miami, saw their admission rates drop below 20% (meaning fewer than 1 in 5 applicants are admitted). Northeastern University, for instance, received more than 90,000 applications last year!

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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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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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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 18, 2024

You’ve submitted your applications, checked your portals, and now you are waiting for your results to roll in. Those of you who have heard good news from your Early Decision and Early Action schools can start looking forward to your freshman year of college. For many seniors, the coming months seem like a time to relax.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every year, thousands of students from around the globe send in their applications, hoping to land a spot at this Ivy League school. UPenn received an impressive 65,235 applications for its Class of 2028 , marking a 10% increase over the prior year. When Does UPenn RD and ED Decisions Come Out? If you get in, you’ve got to go.

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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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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Factors to Consider When Committing to a College What to Do if You’re Waitlisted Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways How Do You Commit to a College? Before diving into the technical steps of how to commit to a college, take a moment to reflect on your decision. How Do You Commit to a College?

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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 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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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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BestColleges

APRIL 23, 2024

Colleges aim to boost their yield through several strategies, including early admissions policies. Around this time of year, high school seniors conduct post-mortems on their college applications, trying to make sense of the increasingly unpredictable and seemingly capricious nature of undergraduate admissions. Why Is Yield Important?

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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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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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