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How to Get Into UNC Chapel Hill: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

It is rare to find a college, even of the public variety, with an annual tuition figure only four digits in length. It is even rarer to find a university that provides an elite undergraduate education with numerous top-ranked academic programs for such an affordable sum. UNC-Chapel Hill is...

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How to Get Into Tufts: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

Situated just five miles outside of Boston, the campus of Tufts University has long been a destination point for high-achieving teens in the Northeastern United States. However, as with many other prestigious institutions over the last few decades, Tufts has seen a consistently climbing number of applications and a...

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How to Get Into Northwestern: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

Located in Evanston, Illinois, near the desirable city of Chicago, Northwestern University is home to slightly more than 8,800 brilliant undergraduates and several of the top academic programs in the world. The notion of Northwestern being a highly selective school is nothing new, but—as with most elite institutions in...

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How to Get Into Duke: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

With an acceptance rate solidly under 5%, the Duke acceptance rate is now slightly lower than that of Dartmouth, Tufts, or Rice. Their exclusivity is matched by their sheer popularity—Duke receives as many applications as Brown and Yale. While Duke has always been an academically competitive institution, gaining admission...

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How to Get Into Caltech: Acceptance Rate & Admissions Strategies

A popular filming location for shows/movies about brilliant young scientists (Big Bang Theory, Numb3rs, Real Genius, and countless others), the California Institute of Technology is a magnet for the most accomplished STEM minds in the country. You might think of Caltech as “MIT-West,” and in many ways that would...

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