Not Applying To College Early Is A Major Mistake
The biggest mistake so many applicants make when applying to highly selective colleges? They don’t apply in the Early round.
We have argued for many years that to not apply to college during the Early Decision / Early Action round is to make the biggest mistake in highly selective college admissions. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
Why Applying Early to College is Vital
Students who choose not to apply to college in the Early round are making a major blunder.
Many students and parents wonder if they should be applying Early Decision or Early Action or if they should be waiting until the Regular Decision round before submitting applications. The fact that students and parents even debate this issue drives us mad. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
Early Admission Policies
There is an outstanding piece by Robert Massa up on “Inside Higher Ed.” Did we mention that it’s outstanding?
Have you read a lot of criticism directed at Early admission policies of late? If so, stick around because there’s another side to the story — a side we’ve been championing for many years. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
Yale Early Admissions
Ivy Coach is featured in today’s “Yale Daily News.”
Yale Early Action Numbers for the Class of 2021
Ivy Coach was featured in today’s “Yale Daily News,” the newspaper of Yale University. The piece, by Luke Ciancarelli, is entitled “Early applications increase across Ivy League” and it focuses — naturally — on the rise in Early Action applications across the Ivy League for the Class of 2021. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action, Ivy League
Applying Early and Financial Aid
Ivy Coach salutes the important work that Harold O. Levy did for New York City’s public schools. But we disagree with him on his arguments against Early Decision and Early Action policies (photo credit: Anthonybaracat).
Harold O. Levy is a former chancellor of the New York City public schools and we have long been fans of his work for students from underpriviledged backgrounds seeking to attend our nation’s most highly selective universities. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
Johns Hopkins Class of 2021
Congratulations to all students admitted to be members of the JHU Class of 2021!
Johns Hopkins University has released data on its Early Decision pool for the Class of 2021 and we’ve got it for our readers. In all, 591 students who applied Early Decision to the Baltimore-based school have been offered admission to be members of the Johns Hopkins Class of 2021. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
Early Decision at Dartmouth
Ivy Coach is cited today on the pages of “The Dartmouth.”
Ivy Coach is featured today in America’s oldest college newspaper, “The Dartmouth.” In the piece in Dartmouth College’s newspaper written by Joyce Lee entitled “Early decision students to comprise 47 percent of class,” the Founder of Ivy Coach, Bev Taylor, praises Dartmouth for its outreach in the last couple of years in particular to international applicants. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action, Ivy League
Tufts Class of 2021
Well hello there, Jumbo!
Tufts University has released its figures for the first of two rounds of Early Decision — for the Class of 2021. In all, 574 students have already been turned into elephants. We mean Jumbos. And in a refreshing change of pace, the new dean of admissions — unlike the dean at just about every other highly selective university — didn’t reference the number of applicants or even the admission rate in her post about the first round of Early Decision at Tufts. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action
UPenn Class of 2021
Penn has a history of filling a major chunk of its incoming class in the Early Decision round.
The numbers are in for the Early Decision pool at UPenn for the Class of 2021! The University of Pennsylvania has a history of filling a sizable chunk of its incoming classes through its Early Decision program. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action, Ivy League
Harvard Early Action Decisions
One can rarely prepare for a flood. We don’t even try. We turn off our electronic devices and go into hiding. We kid, we kid — you’ll understand more after reading this piece (photo credit: Bidgee).
The Harvard Early Action decisions are out! Run for the hills, for higher ground! The floodgates usually open the day that Harvard releases its Early Action decisions. Read more >
Categories: Early Decision / Early Action, Ivy League
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