10 Best Colleges with Automatic/Guaranteed Admissions
For many teens, the college admissions process has become one of the most stress-inducing experiences of their young lives. For some, the rewards are worth the sacrifice of applying to a dozen of schools, composing countless supplemental essays, and retaking the SATs over and over,…
10 Best Boarding Schools in the United States
If you are considering spending grades 9-12 at a boarding school, then you are about to make a financial investment every bit as a sizable as the cost of tuition and living expenses at a private college. Fortunately for you, there are no shortage of…
How to Get Into Yale: Data & Admissions Strategies
When it comes to getting accepted at Yale, the good news is that they are enrolling more students now than at any previous point in the university’s history; the Class of 2024 will be the fourth class to be part of Yale’s expansion from 5,400…
How to Get Into Princeton: Admissions Data & Strategies
Tom Cruise’s iconic Princeton University interview in the ‘80’s classic Risky Business leads his character, Joel Goodson, to receive an against-all-odds letter of acceptance. Back in 1983 when the film debuted, the acceptance rate into the New Jersey Ivy was a comparatively unintimidating 20%. Today,…
How to Get Into Cornell: Admissions Data and Strategies
Successful applicants to Cornell University universally possess an ‘A’ average in a rigorous high school curriculum, stellar SAT scores, as well as a record of accomplishment outside of the classroom in (typically) two or more extracurricular activities. However, these attributes are necessary but often not…
2024 Ivy League & Elite College Early Acceptance Rates
Welcome to College Transitions’ first look at early round acceptance rates at Ivy League and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2019-20 cycle. As of this posting in January of 2020, there are still many schools who have yet to report their early round…
How to Get Into Harvard: Admissions Data and Strategies
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 no meaningful succinct nugget of wisdom that is going to unlock the gates to Harvard Yard….
What Does “Holistic” College Admission Really Mean?
In 1999, Cornell University received just shy of 20,000 applications for a chance to set foot on the Ithaca-based Ivy’s campus at the dawn of the new millennium. Two decades later, nearly 50,000 applicants formally apply each year to the university. UCLA followed a similar…
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