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Category: Ivy League Admissions
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Big Changes Are Happening In College Admissions I will be updating this post periodically as many universities are making midstream changes to their application process even as application materials for the Covid year are starting to appear–like the Cornell application essays, which are up now and ready to write for this fall’s applications. Big changes…
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Greetings Rising Seniors and anybody else who wants to look at which colleges are a “fit” for them. While this post is going to take a look at some early application results for this year, first let me digress for a paragraph: the “fit” of a college–how well it matches your needs and qualifications– is…
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Actually, you can more than triple your chances, on a purely mathematical basis. But First: Who should read this post–Anybody interested in applying to the Ivy League or to Stanford this year. How to read this post: Below you will find a (long) preface that gives some context to the data and offers and analogy…
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And my advice is: follow the money. Or at least consider if going to, say, Cornell, is going to offer enough bang for your bucks. Paradoxically, there is evidence that, if you are a “First-Gen” college student, or your family has limited financial means, the extra money is more likely to pay off in the…
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In my last post, I took a look at trends in admissions–finding, most notably, that admission rates at the most competitive schools are continuing to trend downward in the single digits. This post will give three year results for all of the Ivy League universities, below, as well as results on other universities that were…
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