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— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
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May 22, 2023
The oldest Jesuit institution in the U.S. is also among the nation’s most elite undergraduate universities, and its popular Washington, D.C. locale helps draw massive numbers of applicants each...
In the wake of the Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, it wouldn’t be hard to come up with a number of cynical, mocking responses on the topic of “How...
May 18, 2023
Oh, to be alive in 1998… we watched with childlike naiveté as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa launched home run after home run assisted by their “totally natural” superhero...
May 17, 2023
NYU has a reputation for world-class academics with an international flair. In fact, the 29,000+ undergraduates situated in Greenwich Village include the highest number of international students of any...
Outside of “Encourage your ultra-wealthy parents to donate a building” or “Be a heavily-recruited athlete who also happens to have an SAT score in the 99th percentile,” there is...
Along with institutions like UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Michigan, and the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia is considered one of the “Public Ivies.”...
May 16, 2023
Unlike its Ivy League peers, the undergraduates at Brown University shy away from a competitive, cutthroat classroom atmosphere in favor of a more intellectually-curious, artsy, and progressive vibe. Brown’s...
As far as accomplishments go, getting into Columbia University in 2023-24 versus getting accepted into the NYC Ivy a generation ago are wholly incomparable. It would be like equating...
May 15, 2023
Throughout the ’90s Dartmouth College sported an acceptance rate between 21% and 26%. By around 2010, that figure had fallen to 12-13%. In 2023, the school posted a 6%...
When it comes to getting accepted into Yale, the good news is that the school is enrolling more undergraduate students now than at any previous point in the university’s...
April 14, 2023
Welcome to College Transitions’ first look at the overall Ivy League acceptance rates as well as acceptance rates at other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2022-23 cycle. As...
February 24, 2023
“Widow’s First Year,” a piece of microfiction by Joyce Carol Oates, goes like this: I kept myself alive. That’s it. Powerful and heartbreaking, it communicates an entire narrative in...
January 31, 2023
If you are a fan of podcasts like Serial, documentaries like Making a Murderer, and the billions of similar wrongful convictions stories that have been chronicled across various mediums...
January 18, 2023
Welcome to College Transitions’ first look at early round acceptance rates at Ivy League and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2022-23 cycle. As of this posting in...
January 13, 2023
The ‘90s: birth decade of Tamagotchis, Game Boy, The Spice Girls’ debut album, and…Python. Although the first three have been relegated to attic nostalgia status, Python’s popularity and number...
January 10, 2023
Tulane University admits less than 10% of applicants directly out of high school and strongly favors those who apply early decision. If you dream of joining the Green Wave,...
January 9, 2023
Cal Poly’s San Luis Obispo campus is the most selective school in the California State University (CSU) system. Taking less than 30% of first-year applicants, the mid-50% of enrolled...
California residents have no shortage of phenomenal public institutions within the borders of their home state. UC Davis, for example, ranks in the top 40 national universities and in...
January 6, 2023
Only one-quarter of the 111,000 freshman applicants to UC Santa Barbara are admitted. This makes the school about three times as selective as it was back in the late...
If you desire to call yourself a University of California Irvine Anteater, you are far from alone. With almost 120,000 freshman applicants, UCI can only accept 21% of that...
