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Stanford Admits 7.2% – Record Low
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Stanford admitted 2,300 of 32,000 applicants to the Class of 2014 and placed 998 on the wait list.
Columbia University, U Michigan and 412 Others to Accept Common Application
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Columbia University, the University of Michigan and 23 other colleges and universities will, for the first time, permit students to apply using the Common Application. 414 colleges and universities will accept the application. Students find that the Common App saves time by reducing redundant entry and allowing them to easily submit the same essays to multiple institutions.
Penn Sends Out “Likely Letters” to Selected Applicants
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Penn sent out approximately 200 likely letters in March 2010 – an increase from last year’s 120. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, many of the students who received the letters expressed interest in studying natural sciences such as physics and chemistry, traditionally “under-enrolled” majors.
MIT Admits 1,021 on Pi (3.14159) Day
Sunday, March 14th, 2010MIT admissions decisions for the Class of 2014 became available on March 14 (Pi Day)
NMSQT / PSAT Qualifying Scores For National Merit Semifinalists
Monday, March 8th, 2010FairTest.org, the “National Center for Fair & Open Testing”, compiled qualifying scores for the Class of 2010 for each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Students in Wyoming qualified with a PSAT score of 201, while 221 was the 2010 cut-off for students in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri and Maryland. It’s easier to become a National Merit contender in Florida and Michigan than California, Connecticut or New York.
Private Colleges Courting Community College Transfers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010According to USA Today, community college transfer students are being courted by selective colleges such as USC and NYU. A wide variety of private institutions, including highly competitive schools, are aggressively recruiting students from two-year colleges, to diversify their enrollment. Community college graduates tend to be strong students, according to some admissions officers, because they [...]
Apply To Tufts via YouTube
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Tufts University is the first selective college in the U.S. to encourage applicants to submit videos about themselves. More than one thousand high school seniors included one-minute video essays in their application to the Class of 2014. According to the Boston Globe, “The videos are judged as one part of a whole picture, with a [...]
MIT By The Numbers
Friday, February 12th, 2010MIT Admissions – Interesting stats about Class of 2014 Early Action applicants and members of the Class of 2013. 19% of Class of 2013 enrolled students who are first generation to college. 48% of
Class of 2013 enrolled students who speak a foreign language at home, with 78 languages represented.
Gender Gap at U.S. Colleges & Universities
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Women have represented about 57 percent of American college students since 2000 according to the American Council on Education.
Student Aid: Meeting Need Without Loans
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Colleges and universities that promise to meet 100% of a student’s demonstrated financial need without loans, with a combination of grants and work study jobs. While most schools include loans into their financial aid packages, some do not. The Project on Student Debt publishes a list of colleges with financial aid programs that limit or eliminate student loans from financial aid packages, reducing costs for students and families.
About Lynn Lubell
Lynn Radlauer Lubell is the Publisher of InLikeMe.com, an internationally renowned website for college-bound students, parents and guidance counselors, and the Founder of Admission by Design, an educational consultancy.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, Lynn completed the IECA's Principles and Practices Institute for Educational Consultants and has broad expertise in college admission strategy and planning.
Lynn served on the MIT Educational Council for ten years interviewing hundreds of undergraduate applicants.
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Admission by Design, consults with students and families in South Florida and beyond.