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January 21, 2025

UCLA is a school with a single-digit acceptance rate for freshman applicants. However, unlike at other elite universities like Stanford or Harvard, transferring into UCLA is a proposition with...

January 20, 2025

A good internship offers practical, immersive ways for students to understand what is required of a certain career and field. And high school is often an ideal time for...

January 20, 2025

Commas, semicolons, colons, and em-dashes: what are we supposed to do with all this punctuation? And how could you, a simple student, possibly learn all the rules you need...

January 20, 2025

For those applying as first-year applicants, Rice University has a single-digit acceptance rate. These high standards leave many aspiring Owls outside of the nest. However, not everyone is ready...

January 20, 2025

Ranked among the top 30 public universities in the country, Texas A&M draws a competitive applicant pool for coveted spots in their freshman class. This includes almost 8,000 out-of-state...

January 20, 2025

For entry in the fall of 2023, the middle-50% of successful freshman applicants to the University of Washington had a 3.75-3.98 GPA and a 1410 SAT. If you fell...

January 20, 2025

By any measure, the University of Notre Dame is an elite and highly selective institution. Incredibly, last year, 88 of every 100 freshman applicants were turned away. In more...

January 20, 2025

If you were not among the one-in-five freshman applicants to be accepted into the University of Michigan, your dream of becoming a Wolverine is not over. In fact, the...

January 20, 2025

The University of North Carolina is a dream school for many high-achieving teens from all over the world. While gaining acceptance to UNC Chapel Hill has never been tougher—the...

January 20, 2025

For prospective freshman applicants, Dartmouth—like all Ivies—sports an extremely low admit rate year after year. However, on the transfer front, the outcomes are far more variable. In recent years,...

January 20, 2025

Accepting as many as 450 transfer applicants per year, Emory University is one of the more transfer-friendly elite private institutions in the United States. Most schools with an 17%...

January 18, 2025

The University of Virginia is among the most selective public universities in the country. While they take less than 20% of freshman applicants, UVA remains one of the best...

January 17, 2025

If you’re raising a college-bound teenager in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, chances are you’ve already discovered what families moving from both coasts quickly learn: There are a lot of...

January 17, 2025

Across most professions, experience and training are king—for good reason. Would you want to attend a cooking class led by someone who hadn’t touched a sauté pan since 1995,...

January 16, 2025

Princeton University is a school that rejects 24 first-year applicants for every 1 that it accepts. The odds are even worse for transfer applicants. However, there is some reason...

January 16, 2025

Just a generation ago, Northeastern accepted the vast majority of quality applicants they received. By contrast, last year, they took under 6%. There aren’t many schools that have skyrocketed...

January 16, 2025

Georgia Tech is a far more selective school than many people presently comprehend. They now reject more than 4 in 5 of those who apply and are particularly tough...

January 16, 2025

Getting accepted into Brown as a transfer applicant is every bit as challenging as gaining admission directly out of high school. At the same time, if you’re sure that...

January 16, 2025

For most people, Georgetown University is the premier Jesuit school in the country. Located in Washington, D.C., this university is the number one destination point for many high school...

January 16, 2025

For high school applicants, Northwestern University has a single-digit acceptance rate. Just like other schools of its ilk—Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Rice—the overwhelming majority of those who apply end...