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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 [...]

Ivy League, Stanford & Duke Report Increase in Early Applications

Penn, Brown University, Duke University and Dartmouth College reported increases in early decision applications for the Class of 2014. Yale University, which has a non-binding early action programs, experienced a 5-percent decrease in applications. Stanford University, offering a single-choice early option action saw a 4-percent increase in applications.

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.

7% Admitted at Harvard - Record Rejections at Ivy Schools

Despite the poor economy, interest in attending many of America’s most competitive colleges and universities has not subsided.
According to the New York Times, this year, 7 percent of applicants will be admitted to the Class of 2013 at Harvard, down from 8 percent last year.
The Times reported that representatives of Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Yale, and [...]

Early Admission 2013 Update - Yale, Stanford, MIT

Yale admitted just over 13% of early action applicants for the class of 2013, a significant drop from last year when 18% of early admission applicants were admitted to the Class of 2012, according to the Yale Daily News.   742 early applicants were admitted from a record applicant pool of 5,557.   In addition, the Yale [...]