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 …
If you’re a high school senior, you’re just a few weeks away from Early Decision / Early Action deadlines. That’s right. November 1st is inching closer and closer. So, if you’re freaking out, unsure if your essays are expressing what they should be expressing, if your activities are demonstrating a …
It never ceases to surprise us when a student shares with their classmates where they’re applying to in the Early Decision / Early Action round. Why share this valuable piece of information rather than keep it close to the vest? Other students are surely keeping their choice a secret — …
Vanderbilt University has released Early Decision II notifications for the Class of 2026. Approximately 250 students earned admission through the school’s second binding decision program, drawn from a pool of 2,407 ED II applicants. In total, between Early Decision I and Early Decision II, approximately 900 students earned admission to …
The University of Notre Dame has notified Early Action applicants to its Class of 2026 of their decisions. In all, an all-time record 9,683 students applied Early Action to Notre Dame this fall. Last year, this same figure stood at 7,744. EA applications were thus up over 25% year-over-year, an …
