Posted on: 18 Aug 2026
With an acceptance rate still above 50%, it would be easy to misjudge how challenging the Penn State admissions landscape truly is. University Park draws well over 100,000 applications and admits roughly 55% of them, but that average conceals enormous variation by campus and by major. Among students admitted to University Park, the middle 50% […]
Posted on: 14 Aug 2026
The nation’s oldest Jesuit institution of higher learning welcomed 13% of applicants to the Class of 2030 onto its historical and notably beautiful Washington, DC, campus, admitting roughly 3,500 students from more than 26,900 applications to enroll a class of 1,650. Whenever you are applying to a school of Georgetown’s caliber, where the average admitted […]
Posted on: 13 Aug 2026
Boston College’s 12.7% acceptance rate for the Class of 2030 is less than half of what it was just five years ago, and it came out of a record pool of 41,898 applications. Today, accepted students earn an average SAT score of 1500 and an average ACT score of 34, and 95% ranked in the […]
Posted on: 13 Aug 2026
Cornell’s most recently published acceptance rate, an 8.4% mark for the Class of 2028, was just a touch higher than the prior year’s 7.3%. The university has not released figures for the classes that followed. However, as late as 2003, the school still had as high as a 31% acceptance rate. Clearly, getting into Cornell […]
Posted on: 13 Aug 2026
With a 4.7% acceptance rate, the lowest in school history, getting into Duke in 2026-27 is as daunting a challenge as gaining acceptance into just about any Ivy League school. While Duke University may immediately conjure up images of the “Cameron Crazies” decked out in devil masks and blue face paint, make no mistake, those […]
Posted on: 12 Aug 2026
Division III describes Bowdoin College, where 34 percent of full-time undergraduates play a varsity sport. It also describes New York University, where 1.8 percent do. Both admit fewer than one applicant in ten. Both compete without athletic scholarships. On every dimension a family is likely to check, the two schools occupy the same category. That […]
Posted on: 30 Jul 2026
Picture a student sitting down in October to decide whether to apply to Tufts under early decision. The commitment is binding, it arrives before any aid offer, and the sensible first move is to find out what the early round is actually worth. Until this year, Tufts gave that student nothing to work with. The […]
Posted on: 29 Jul 2026
What is Carnegie Mellon’s acceptance rate? The answer is 11.07 percent for the Fall 2025 entering class, and for almost every applicant asking the question, that number is close to worthless. Carnegie Mellon does not admit students to Carnegie Mellon. It admits them to the School of Computer Science, the College of Engineering, the Mellon […]