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MIT Yield Steady at Around 64%

Around 64% of students accepted their offers of admission to join the MIT Class of 2014, about the same percentage as last year, a

Admission Results for Duke, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Northwestern and More….

Class of 2014 Admission Results for Duke, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Stanford and More….

MIT Admits 1,021 on Pi (3.14159) Day

MIT admissions decisions for the Class of 2014 became available on March 14 (Pi Day)

MIT By The Numbers

MIT 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.

Record Applications to Princeton, Chicago, Brown, Penn, Duke, Stanford, MIT…..

Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Chicago and other universities received record numbers of applications for the Class of 2014.

Top 20 Best Value Colleges

Princeton Review released its 2010 list of colleges and universities that give the most for your money.
Topping the private school list:  (1) Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA); (2) Harvard College (Cambridge, MA); (3) Wesleyan College (Macon, GA); (4) Princeton University (Princeton, NJ);  (5) Yale University (New Haven, CT); (6) Williams College (Williamstown, MA); (7) Rice University [...]

College Blogs Offer Admission Advice & More

You can read students’ perspectives about dozens of colleges - including MIT, Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, Vassar, Wellesley and and Yale — by checking out student blogs on the schools’ web sites.

Student blogs are a valuable tool for prospective applicants seeking “behind-the-scenes” information about admission and student life.

U.S. News & Forbes Publish 2010 College Rankings

America’s Best Colleges, published by Forbes Magazine, and Best Colleges 2010 from U.S. News are out. Many of the usual suspects - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT - ranked high on both lists. There were surprises as well.

College Board’s Score Choice Sets Off Debate and Angst — Some Schools to Require All SAT Scores

The College Board’s new policy that lets students report selected SAT scores has set off both a national debate and heightened anxiety. Until now, students who took the SAT more than once had no choice but to submit scores from all test administration dates. Score Choice eliminates that requirement, except when the college or university opposes the policy.

Admission Yield & Waitlist Update for Class of 2013

Admission yields at Ivy League institutions were in the estimated range. Harvard University’s yield remained at 76%. Yale University reported a 68% yield and the yield at Dartmouth decreased by two percent from last year to 49%. According to published sources, all of the Ivy League schools, except Yale, expressed plans to accept students from their waitlists. Princeton University is expected to admit 31 waitlisted students. Harvard University is expected to admit least 85 students off the waitlist. MIT admitted 63 students (including some international students) off the waitlist to the Class of 2013.