Over the years, we’ve detailed on the pages of this blog the discrimination that Jewish applicants faced in the admissions process to Ivy League institutions decades ago — discrimination that included the use of despicable quotas to limit the number of Jewish students. But it’s not like the Ivy League …
Stanford University has opted to extend its test-optional admissions policy. The new extension will impact applicants to Stanford’s Class of 2027 as well as transfer applicants. In all, this marks three years in a row that the Palo Alto, California-based institution has not required test scores for admission. Stanford dropped …
Stanford University, which historically likes to keep its admissions statistics for each incoming class under lock and key until months after the admissions process has wrapped for that cycle, has opened the lockbox for the Class of 2024. In all, between Early Action and Regular Decision, 45,227 students applied to …
As a direct result of the Varsity Blues scandal, California state legislators passed a bill that was signed into law that requires California-based universities to submit data to the state on their admission of legacy students. Specifically, these schools must include the number of applicants who both did and did …
A big congratulations this morning to Ivy Coach’s students who earned admission to Stanford University in the Early Action round. Every single one of you who applied to Stanford this fall learned yesterday that you have been offered a slot in the Stanford University Class of 2024. It marks yet …
While it is the task of admissions officers at America’s elite universities to sift through the applications of students with perfect or near-perfect grades and scores to determine which of the applicants can contribute in significant ways to their incoming classes, it is also their task to not admit the …
As we recently reported, Stanford University will no longer publicize the school’s undergraduate application figures. Many praised the university for this decision, arguing that ceasing the release of admissions figures will alleviate stress on applicants and make the dream of earning admission to Stanford seem more achievable. As our readers …
The admissions statistics are in the books for the Stanford University Class of 2022. In all, 2,040 students earned admission to The Farm. 750 of these students were admitted in the Single Choice Early Action round while the remaining 1,290 earned admission in the Regular Decision round. These students were …
High school students hear the warnings all the time: be careful what you post on social media for it can come back to haunt you. And, yes, it can jeopardize your case for admission to college. But the wisest students learn not from their own mistakes. Instead, they learn from …
Frank Bruni, the always opinionated “New York Times” op-ed columnist, wrote a cute piece yesterday entitled “College Admissions Shocker” that we figured we’d share with the readers of our college admissions blog. Bruni starts off the piece with this zinger: “Cementing its standing as the most selective institution of higher education …
