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Like many other elite private colleges, Johns Hopkins University has fared quite well in higher education’s selectivity arms race since the start of the present millennium. As the Baltimore Sun reported back in 1996, the school received an all-time record of 8,503 applicants for a spot in the Class...

The University of Notre Dame has always been a university for high-achieving students. In 1986, the home of the Fighting Irish admitted 43% of applicants. This group, the Class of 1990, sported an average SAT score of 1200; 75% earned a place in the top 10% of their high...

Santa Clara University is a mid-sized, private Jesuit institution in California that caters to around 5,900 undergraduate students. Unsurprisingly, given its location, SCU is known for having one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Fortunately, the academic strength of the school is also quite strong. In particular,...

When applying to any of the University of California schools, you’ll face a series of supplemental essays in which you are asked to quickly and, with sufficient detail, provide personal insight into who you are as a person. These essays can be confusing to students, who might be used...

The 2024-25 admissions cycle saw the nine undergraduate University of California campuses collectively attract 249,824 applications. While this number was a slight drop from the previous year’s record-high 250,959 applications, it’s still a double-digit increase from four years prior. Logic would suggest that institutions receiving over 173,000 applications (UCLA)...

Swarthmore College is one of the most competitive liberal arts colleges in the country, in the same league with the likes of Williams, Amherst, and Pomona. While less-known to the general public than the Ivy League universities, these schools (including Swat) sport single-digit acceptance rates and are a challenge...