Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new [...]
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Princeton University has released details of a gap year program under which recently admitted students can defer their studies for the year after high school to participate in international service programs. This seems an interesting idea because it lets young students focus on the issues faced by cultures other than their own at a time [...]
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Just when it seems that admissions to the Ivy League couldn’t get any more competitive, it looks like top English students are beginning to look across the Atlantic for educational opportunities. Why? The simple answer appears to be the superior financial aid packages being offered by the best U.S. schools.
With the decline in public support [...]
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OK, maybe that headline is a bit sensational, but it does look like admissions applications to UPenn are almost level this year compared to last. The other Ivies are seeing their applications climb at a significant rate, so maybe, this year at least, something has happened to affect the relative popularity of this Top Tier [...]
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High school students in the United Kingdom face similar concerns regarding costs as do their peers in the United States. Many select schools close to home just to minimize the overall price of their higher education. This raises special concerns for some disciplines like physics which are not generally taught at regional colleges and universities.
Of [...]
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Want to know what it takes to write a winning essay for your Top Tier admissions application? Need to get the inside info to make sure you make the cut? OK here’s a simple tip from someone who has to read hundreds and hundreds of those applications every year. She’s Julia Ando, an admissions counselor [...]
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Although the avalanche of applications inundating the admissions offices of American college and universities might make their directors smile, it does raise some complications. Everyone has a target class size for which they strive; both under-enrollment and over-enrollment can cause real problems for a university and can significantly shorten an admissions director’s tenure. Part of [...]
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It used to be that students spent the summers before going off to college earning money to fund their studies, but the new trend is for particularly eager (and financially gifted) potential Ivy League applicants to spend their high school summers in attractive study programs that help swell their admissions credentials. These programs can offer [...]
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The national impact of the increasingly competitive world of Top Tier admissions is being felt far from the campuses of these august institutions. The state of Florida has actually begun to post a list of the most intense courses in its high schools to let students put together a tailored curriculum designed to impress even [...]
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Difficult as it might be for most high school students to wend their way through the admissions maze for Top Tier schools, the process for students of the arts is even more complex. First, they need to decide whether to attend a college or university with a broad range of academic offerings or to go [...]
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