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 over half of applicants enter its Amherst campus. While the overall UMass acceptance rate is still far from intimidating, certain...
Read MoreIf 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 2028. However, today, this mid-size private research university in New Orleans is among the most selective schools in the country....
Read MoreThe 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 of applicants. The University of Alabama acceptance rate is a shining example of the latter category. Students flock to Tuscaloosa...
Read MoreIn 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 a transcript may not fully demonstrate. But do you know how a strong letter of recommendation sounds? What makes it...
Read MoreIt’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 printing press, steam engines, machine production, factory automation, the internet. Each one was the kind of turning point that enters...
Read MoreWith 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 median SAT is a 1540 and 98% hail from the top 10% of their high school class. As a result,...
Read MoreFor 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 do little for you, a more apropos comparison might present the essay as the mean, attention-hogging prom queen in a...
Read MoreIn 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 carried an average SAT score of 1074 and a mean ACT just shy of 23. 30 years later, nearly 8,000...
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