If you happened to apply in the Early Action/Early Decision round of admissions and you received a deferral, it’s no reason to celebrate. Still, it’s no reason to be entirely discouraged. While you didn’t yet earn admission to the school of your dreams, you weren’t denied outright. Most highly selective universities will …
It was a record Early Decision cycle for the University of Pennsylvania’s Class of 2027. Over 8,000 students applied to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Ivy League institution under the school’s binding policy. It marked the largest Early Decision applicant pool in the school’s history, eclipsing last year’s 7,795 applicants and the …
With few exceptions year-over-year, applications to America’s elite universities increase over time — typically rather significantly. Columbia University’s Early Decision cycle for the Class of 2027 marks an exception to this trendline: ED applications to Columbia dipped 9% from last year. The cause? Look no further than Columbia’s unprecedented slide …
It was a banner Early Decision cycle for Dartmouth College’s Class of 2027. As Ivy Coach broke the news on November 3rd when we got the early word on the Dartmouth Class of 2027 Early Decision application tally, a record 3,009 students applied to the Hanover, New Hampshire-based Ivy League …
The 2022-2023 admissions cycle for the Class of 2027 has, in some ways, marked a return to normalcy after a couple of years significantly impacted by the pandemic. After months of canceled in-person college tours and a dearth of visits by regional admissions representatives from our nation’s elite universities to …
While most of America’s universities only offer one round of Early Decision / Early Action, there are some schools, including some of the nation’s highly selective schools, that offer two rounds of Early Decision. For those schools that do offer the second round of Early Decision, the deadline for most …
Early Action applications to the Yale Class of 2027 rose this year — to 7,777 students. It marks the second largest Early Action applicant pool in Yale’s history, trailing only the Early Action pool for the Yale Class of 2025 when 7,939 students applied to the Ivy League institution by …
We had a student a few years back whose dream was Columbia University. She thus applied Early Decision to Columbia, her first choice school. But just because she applied Early Decision to Columbia doesn’t mean she wasn’t able to also apply to schools under non-restrictive Early Action policies. After all, …
A new report, published by a group known as “Education Reform Now,” has sharply criticized Early Decision policies. What? A group is against the notion that students should not have to make binding commitments to universities in exchange for increased odds of admission? This is a radical rebuke of a …
One of the core objectives of Ivy Coach’s college admissions blog has long been to debunk misconceptions about the highly selective college admissions process — misconceptions perpetuated by the press, admissions officers, high school counselors, private college counselors, and, heck, even moms and dads in line at the local grocery …
