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— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
June 12, 2023
If you’re a soon-to-be high school graduate or a proud alum wondering how to get a copy of your high school diploma, you’ve come to the right place. In...
April 9, 2023
If you’re a high school student researching colleges, you may have noticed that most colleges require you to submit a high school transcript with your application. But what information...
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...
January 5, 2023
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...
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 feel short of...
January 2, 2023
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...
December 30, 2022
For those applying as first-year applicants, Barnard College has a single-digit acceptance rate. The standards for this Columbia-affiliated women’s college has reached full-blown Ivy League levels. More promising for...
December 28, 2022
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...
December 27, 2022
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...
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 worry—all...
December 26, 2022
Tufts University is now a full-fledged member of the single-digit club—school’s that reject more than 9 of every 10 individuals who apply. While the Tufts transfer acceptance rate is...
December 23, 2022
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...
December 22, 2022
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...
December 21, 2022
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...
December 20, 2022
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...