Posts by Dave Bergman:
NYU Supplemental Essays 2023-24 Prompt and Advice
Posted on: 17 Aug 2023
In the 2022-23 admissions cycle, NYU received over 120,000 applications. That was a record-breaking figure for the university (13% more than the previous year!), as was the all-time low acceptance rate of 8%. To put these numbers in proper context, consider for a moment that in 1991, NYU had an acceptance rate of 65%. At […]
Yale Supplemental Essays 2023-24 Prompts & Advice
Posted on: 17 Aug 2023
Yale’s acceptance rate of 4.35% for the Class of 2027 is not the type of number you want to simply glide past as you proceed through the application with blind optimism. It is not our intention to inject unnecessary anxiety and fear into the highly selective admissions process (you likely already have plenty of sources […]
Brown Supplemental Essays 2023-24 Prompts & Advice
Posted on: 16 Aug 2023
Applicants to the Brown Class of 2027 were greeted with just over a 5% acceptance rate, similar to the year prior. Given that 19 of every 20 applicants are turned away–even many valedictorians with perfect test scores–aspiring Brown undergrads need to find a way to stand out from a pack of similarly credentialed teens. Fortunately, […]
Boston University Supplemental Essay 2023-24 Prompts and Advice
Posted on: 14 Aug 2023
With almost 81,000 applications from those wishing to join the Class of 2027, Boston University has entered the realm of the most desirable private universities on the planet. It also continues to climb to new heights in terms of selectivity with just an 11% acceptance rate for entering 2023-24 freshmen. In contrast, just twenty years […]
Dartmouth Supplemental Essays 2023-24 Prompts and Advice
Posted on: 11 Aug 2023
Dartmouth receives the fewest number of applications of the eight Ivy League schools. There were 28,841 hopefuls for the Class of 2027, less than half the number at Columbia or Harvard. Yet, that still represented an increase in the number of Dartmouth applications from the two years prior, resulting in the school’s lowest-ever acceptance rate […]
15 Best ROTC Colleges
Posted on: 02 Aug 2023
If you attended college in the US, you likely had classmates in the ROTC. That’s because ROTC programs are near-ubiquitous—more than 1,700 colleges and universities in the US offer ROTC programs. The ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) enables students to take military courses while they earn their bachelor’s degrees. Upon graduating, students in the ROTC […]
How to Get Into UC Irvine: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 28 Jul 2023
In 1997, UC Irvine received 17,000 applications and admitted two-thirds of that group. By 2007, applications had more than doubled and the acceptance rate had fallen to 56%. Fast-forward to 2022, and over 117,000 individuals applied and the UC Irvine acceptance rate was down to 21%. Need further proof of the school’s increased popularity? Ten […]
Villanova Supplemental Essays 2023-24 – Prompts & Advice
Posted on: 28 Jul 2023
Villanova University’s 20.5% acceptance rate for the Class of 2027 is less than half of what it was as recently as 2015. Today, admitted students earned a mid-50% SAT of 1450-1520, and you typically need mostly A’s in AP/honors courses to have a serious shot at acceptance. Writing excellent Common App and Villanova supplemental essays […]
