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The Benefits of Applying Early Admission

Top Tier Admissions

Applying early admission is one of the most strategic moves you can make in seeking admission to a competitive college. Simply put, admissions rates are notably higher for early applicants who are in range, meaning that some students admitted in the early round would not be if they had waited for subsequent admissions rounds.

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Deferred vs. Waitlisted: Understanding the Difference

HelloCollege

Many students will know the feeling of opening an admissions decision and seeing one of two words: deferred or waitlisted. After the already stressful application process, this news might put you in a state of further uncertainty. You applied Early Decision to your dream school, and you received a letter stating that you were deferred.

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Top 10 Early Admissions Trends: Class of 2028

Top Tier Admissions

Between ever-increasing early application numbers, unexpected current events and other external factors, colleges seeking to further diversify (gender diversity, economic diversity, geographic diversity, etc.) TOP 10 EARLY ADMISSIONS TRENDS: CLASS OF 2028 1. Harvard Magazine states, “Of the admitted cohort, 15.5

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Class of 2025 Early Admissions Results

Marks Education

With the Early Decision II rounds coming to a close this month, we wanted to share with you the trends we are seeing as well as our students successes. Brown University , in their first year requiring test scores from applicants since the beginning of the pandemic, saw their Early Decision pool decrease 19%.

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Update on Early Admissions for Ivy League Colleges for the Class of 2026

Excelsior Admissions Consulting

Want to know what is going on in early admissions for the Ivy League colleges for the Class of 2026? Here is a summary of early admissions statistics from December 2021. Brown This year, Brown admitted 896 students Early Decision out of 6,146 applicants for a 15% admission rate. admission rate.

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Early Decision Notification Dates: What You Need to Know

Top Tier Admissions

For those who have applied in the early rounds , many Early Decision 1 and Early Action deadlines are TODAY, while others, including Early Decision 2 deadlines extend into January. Your admissions result does not reflect who you are as a person. Ultimately, you need to do what’s best for you.

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How Did We Get Here? Part 2

Admissions Village

We know that institutional priorities motivate admissions decisions, but colleges do not advertise what their priorities are, and priorities change from year to year. Not exactly sure what is happening there, except maybe the fact that they pulled out of the US News and World Report rankings had something to do with it.