Yale offered a total of 2,006 acceptances to the Class of 2015. The college’s admission dropped to 7.35% from 7.5% last year. A record 27,282 applicants applied to the Yale 2015. 996 students were offered a place on Yale’s waitlist. Last year, Yale offered admission to 1,941 out of 25,869 applicants and before [...]
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New College Rankings from U.S. News and Forbes
August 14, 2010
U.S. News Best Colleges 2011 and Forbes America’s Best Colleges 2010 have dominated the college admissions headlines recently.
Record Applications to Princeton, Chicago, Brown, Penn, Duke, Stanford, MIT…..
January 25, 2010
Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Chicago and other universities received record numbers of applications for the Class of 2014.
Top 20 Best Value Colleges
January 13, 2010
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 [...]
Ivy League, Stanford & Duke Report Increase in Early Applications
December 9, 2009
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
October 2, 2009
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
August 20, 2009
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
June 2, 2009
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
May 19, 2009
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
March 30, 2009
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, [...]
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.