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The University of Pennsylvania was founded in the 18th century as a member of the Ivy League. This being the case, it’s surprising that it took 250 years for it to become the uber-elite, highly selective institution that it is today. If your parent, grandparent, or older neighbor went...

When it comes to getting accepted into Yale, the good news is that the school is enrolling more undergraduate students now than at any previous point in the university’s history. In recent years, the university expanded its undergraduate enrollment target from 5,400 to 6,200 students. The bad news is…well,...

When you look at a list of the lowest college acceptance rates in the country and your dream school occupies one of the top positions, this is hardly cause for celebration. Stanford’s latest acceptance rate is even more selective than MIT, Caltech, and Yale and is quite similar to...

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 nugget of wisdom that is going to unlock the gates to Harvard Yard. Successful Harvard applicants possess a...

NYU has a reputation for world-class academics with an international flair. In fact, the 29,000+ undergraduates situated in Greenwich Village include the highest number of international students of any school in the U.S. as well as the greatest number of students who elect to study abroad as part of...

Tom Cruise’s iconic Princeton University interview in the ’80s 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 Princeton University acceptance rate was a comparatively unintimidating 20%. Today, the acceptance rate is roughly one-fifth that...

Unlike its Ivy League peers, the undergraduates at Brown University shy away from a competitive, cutthroat classroom atmosphere in favor of a more intellectually curious, artsy, and progressive vibe. Brown’s famous Open Curriculum gives students a chance to genuinely pursue their academic passions from their first moment on campus....

Many of the 26,000+ annual applicants to MIT would qualify as “geniuses” when measured by sheer IQ and traditional academic achievement. Yet, somehow the majority of this highly capable applicant pool gets left behind each year as the MIT acceptance rate remains under 5%. Back in the early 1990s,...