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Class of 2025 – Ivy League & Elite College Early Decision 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 2020-21 cycle. As of this posting in January of 2021, there are still many schools who have yet to report their early round results. As such, you...

Out-of-State versus In-State Acceptance Rates at Top Public Universities

It is unsurprising that the top public universities in the United States annually draw massive numbers of residents who seek a quality education close to home at a low (relative to the market) tuition figure. Yet, the magnetic pull of many of these schools has a radius that extends...

How to Apply to a US College as an International Student

Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,169,464 international students were studying at colleges and universities across the United States. While this number was already slightly down from previous years due, at least in part, to the political conditions in the United States, American institutions of higher education...

How to Support Your Teen in the College Admissions Process

Back in 2012, a student at the University of Cincinnati won a restraining order against her parents for “stalking” her in college. They had installed spyware on their daughter’s phone and computer, regularly made unannounced visits by traveling over 600 miles to campus, and even met with her dean...

How Higher SAT Scores Can Lower Your Tuition

Widely considered one of the best documentaries of the 2000s, The King of Kong takes you deep within the surprisingly fascinating subculture of competitive retro video gaming. The film tells the story of two middle-aged men competing to obtain the world record in Donkey Kong, a rudimentary arcade game...

5 Reasons American Teens Should Consider College in the U.K.

Even the brightest and most worldly college-bound American teens are not usually able to name more than a handful of universities in the United Kingdom. Sure, there’s Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics and…well, the list dies off after that. Yet, there are close to 400 universities across...

Should I Submit My SATs or ACTs to Colleges in 2020-21?

The notion of test-optional admissions was born in 1969, in the coastal town of Brunswick, Maine. There, the newly-minted, fresh-faced Dean of Bowdoin College, Roger Howell Jr., all of 33 years old, made a bold decision—he would eliminate the SAT as an admissions requirement for his school. Howell explained...

Common App Changes for 2020-21

As the higher education community waited with bated breath for the annual Common App launch party on August 1st, rumors flew about what revolutionary changes to the popular application platform might shock the world in the coming days. Some of the most hardcore fans spent days glued to their...

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