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— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
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January 30, 2024
If partway through college, you realize that a different school would be a better fit, this is by no means a failure on your part. There are many valid...
December 18, 2023
The University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus has never been a more desirable postsecondary destination for top students from around the country/world. As a result, many strong high school students...
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,...
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 the...
Now accepting just 30%-40% of freshman applicants, San Diego State University is one of the more selective schools in the California State University (CSU) system. Unless your high school...
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...
You long to become a member of the Wolfpack, but you don’t have the stellar grades and test scores to get admitted to NC State directly out of high...
Florida State University accepts less than one-third of freshman applicants and the mid-50% GPA for admitted students is 4.3-4.6. Given this spectacularly high level of selectivity, many aspiring Seminoles...
If you want to attend UC San Diego as a freshman, you’ll need to possess close to a 4.0 cumulative high school GPA. However, if you fell short of...
December 17, 2023
For those applying as first-year applicants, Barnard College has a single-digit acceptance rate. The standards for this Columbia-affiliated women’s college have reached full-blown Ivy League levels. More promising for...
December 15, 2023
Tufts University is now a full-fledged member of the single-digit club—schools that reject more than 9 of every 10 individuals who apply. While the Tufts transfer acceptance rate is...
If your goal has always been to become a Terrapin, but you don’t have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don’t...
In a typical year, UMiami accepts between 1,000 and 1,500 transfer applicants. This gives hope to many prospective applicants to a school that now boasts a sub-20% freshman admit...
A sharp rise in selectivity at the University of Florida in the 2020s has made the goal of becoming a Gator more difficult to achieve than ever before. While...
If your dream is to become a Nittany Lion, but you don’t have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don’t worry—all...
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland is among the Ivy-equivalent colleges that now perennially sports a single-digit acceptance rate. This means that very few of the deserving crop of...
Much like the Ivy League colleges, Stanford, and MIT, the University of Chicago rejects many applicants who possess near-perfect (or perfect) test scores, grades, and extracurricular profiles. To further...
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of the most competitive private universities in the country. They reject close to 9 of every 10 applicants who apply to...
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