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January 22, 2021

Regular Decision Notification Deadlines Getting Pushed

January 21, 2021

California Universities Should Take a Bow

January 20, 2021

Most Students Submit Test Scores

Ivy Coach’s Crystal Ball Strikes Again

January 12, 2021

Early December seems like an eternity ago in the world of highly selective college admissions. Back then, some asserted that Ivy Coach’s crystal ball forecast that Class of 2025 Early Decision / Early Action applications to our nation’s elite universities would surge, admit rates would plummet, and the schools would …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: 2020 Early Action Cycle, 2020 Early Decision Cycle, Admissions Crystal Ball, College Admissions Crystal Ball, Ivy League Admissions Crystal Ball

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The Secret Sauce of Ivy Coach’s Letters of Enthusiasm

January 11, 2021

If your child was deferred from a highly selective university in the Early Action / Early Decision round, doing nothing is an unlikely strategy to earn admission to this same university in the Regular Decision round. Likewise, throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks is as unlikely a …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Compelling Letter of Enthusiasm, Letter of Continued Interest, Letter of Enthusiasm, LOE, Powerful Letter of Enthusiasm

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Princeton’s Cancellation of Early Action Does Not Explain Application Surges

January 10, 2021

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton University opted to forego offering students the chance to apply Early Action this fall. Instead, they offered students only the opportunity to apply Regular Decision on January 1st. The announcement, made just a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, read, “The University will move …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Princeton Admissions, Princeton Cancels Early Action, Princeton Early Action, Princeton Early Action Admissions, Princeton's Cancellation of Early Action Does Not Explain Application Surges

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International Applications Rise

January 9, 2021

On the eve of the Trump presidency, which seems like eons ago, we forecasted that international applications to our nation’s elite universities would continue to climb. We felt that even isolationist, “America First” national policies wouldn’t deter young people around the world from applying to the best universities in the …

Categories: International Students

Tags: International Applications Rise, International College Applicants, International Ivy League Applicants, International Students, Internationals at Ivies

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The Virtue Signaling of The Common Application

January 8, 2021

When you’re feeling blue about the state of our country and the heinous acts of sedition committed at the United States Capitol this week by a group of domestic terrorists, it seems natural to want to reach out to someone to express your thoughts, right? Well, enter The Common Application, …

Categories: The Application

Tags: Common App Marketing, Common Application, The Common App, The Common Application, The Virtue Signaling of The Common Application

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Candidates to the Class of 2025 Applied to More Schools

January 7, 2021

Earlier this fall, you may have read headlines that college applications to the Class of 2025 were down across American universities. And while college applications to the vast majority of our nation’s 900+ colleges were slightly down this fall, applications were — of course — not down at our nation’s …

Categories: College Admissions

Tags: Applying to More Colleges, Applying to More Universities, Candidates to the Class of 2025 Applied to More Schools, Long College Lists, Longer College Lists

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Gap Year Students Fill Seats

January 6, 2021

Wondering how all the students admitted to the Class of 2024 who opted to take gap years are impacting the admissions process for the Class of 2025? Well, if you take the word of some admissions leaders as the gospel, you might be left curious to see how it all …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Gap Year 2024, Gap Year 2025, Gap Year Applicants, Gap Year Students, Gap Year Students Fill Seats

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Columbia University Class of 2025 Early Decision Statistics

January 5, 2021

Columbia University historically releases its admissions statistics for the Early Decision and Regular Decision round later on in the year. But the early word is that Early Decision applications to Columbia University’s Class of 2025 were up 49% this fall. That’s right — 49%! As Melissa Korn reports for The …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Admission to Columbia 2025, Columbia 2025 Admissions Stats, Columbia Class of 2025, Columbia University Class of 2025 Admission Stats, Columbia University Class of 2025 Early Decision Statistics

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Early Decision I and Early Decision II Are Not Created Equal

January 4, 2021

Early Decision I and Early Decision II are basically the same thing, right? Wrong. First, let’s start with the most obvious difference. For those schools that offer both Early Decision I and Early Decision II policies (and there aren’t tons of these universities among the highly selective institutions), the Early …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Applying ED2, Early Decision Advantage, Early Decision I, Early Decision I and Early Decision II Are Not Created Equal, Early Decision II

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The Glitches of The Common Application

January 3, 2021

Over the years, we’ve chided The Common Application for their technical glitches, for asking a question that at times disadvantaged underrepresented minorities, and a whole host of other issues. Well, we’re not done yet. Today, we wish to scold them for, yes, more technical glitches. After all these years, you’d …

Categories: The Application

Tags: Common App, Common App Glitches, Common Application, Problems with Common App, The Glitches of The Common Application

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