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August 14, 2025

UMass Amherst is one the top public universities on the East Coast. Yet, in 2025, as acceptance rates at highly-ranked schools plummet nationwide, the University of Massachusetts still lets...

August 14, 2025

If you blinked at some point during the 2010s, you may have missed Tulane’s meteoric rise in selectivity that resulted in a 13% acceptance rate for the Class of...

August 14, 2025

The United States is filled with excellent schools that are extremely hard to get into. There are also a solid number of excellent schools that accept the vast majority...

August 13, 2025

In most cases, recommendation letters are a standard requirement for the college admissions process. Admissions officers use these letters to better understand the applicant’s promising qualities and characteristics that...

August 13, 2025

It’s happened to us before. A new technology cresting like a giant inevitable wave, blotting out the horizon and a clear view of the future along with it. The...

August 13, 2025

With an acceptance rate of 3.6%, Stanford University is in a league of selectivity with only a handful of other schools including Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. At Stanford, the...

August 13, 2025

For all of the first-class treatment applicants give to their Common App essay, the Common App Activities Section is all too often relegated to steerage. If antiquated steamship analogies...

August 13, 2025

In the autumn of 1995, Ohio State University welcomed a typical freshman class of 5,794 individuals to campus. Ninety percent of this Buckeye cohort were Ohio residents and they...

August 12, 2025

A 3.6% acceptance for the Class of 2028 gives you a pretty informative introduction to the ultra-competitive admissions process at Harvard University. To dive deeper, Harvard rejects the majority...

August 12, 2025

When applying to a school like Carnegie Mellon that only accepts 11% of applicants, it’s important to keep in mind that the other 89% of applicants will ultimately be...

August 12, 2025

With over 78,000 applications from those wishing to join the Class of 2028, Boston University has entered the realm of the most desirable private universities on the planet. It...

August 12, 2025

With over 38,000 total undergraduates, Michigan State University caters to more BA/BS-pursuing students than its in-state rival, the University of Michigan. In addition, the Michigan State acceptance rate is...

August 12, 2025

Sitting in the company of other top public university gems like UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, the University of Michigan, and UT Austin, the University of Washington-Seattle perhaps flies a...

August 12, 2025

This past cycle, Florida State University received over 78,000 applications, an all-time high. FSU’s rise in popularity has—not coincidentally—also led to a spike in selectivity. For example, in 2005,...

August 12, 2025

In 2025, enthusiasm for Indiana University-Bloomington extends well beyond the Hoosier State. In fact, the majority of the record 67,000+ applications received by IU Bloomington for the Class of...

August 12, 2025

The oldest university in the state of Texas, A&M has long outgrown the “Agricultural & Mechanical” portion of its name. At least 40,000 student applicants have applied for the...

August 12, 2025

Prior to the turn of the new millennium, the University of Maryland, College Park welcomed 75% of the applicant pool into the Terrapin family. In recent years, the University...

August 11, 2025

Monmouth County is home to some of New Jersey’s strongest public, private, and magnet high schools. Families here benefit from exceptional academic options—from nationally ranked magnet programs like Biotechnology...

August 11, 2025

The 2025-26 college football season is set to begin on August 23, when Iowa State and Kansas State square off at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Then on August...

August 11, 2025

Charging an annual in-state tuition of approximately $6,400, the University of Florida allows residents to get a full year’s education for roughly the same cost of a single course...