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Category: Ivy League Admissions Data
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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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Early Application advantage continues for the Ivy leage and for elite private schools. The big trend for admissions to the class of 2024 for Ivy and Ivy League proxies: a drop in total applications and an increase in admissions rates. This was a marginal dip rather than a sea change, but with increases in applications…
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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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For many years, yield was vital to college rankings. Universities tried not only to attract far more qualified applicants than they could possibly admit, they also tried to get a very high yield. From the point of view of applicants, this was, well, a bit devilish. The universities, of course, have a different point…
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