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I'm in tenth grade.

Sophomore

Wants to study Chemistry

Wants to attend Ivy League

Just rejected straightly by UPenn. But there are some factors just so not understandable. How hard is it to get into UPenn and is my situation really carefully evaluated by the committee? I am not r …

Boston College received 2928 applications for (ED1) and accepted 878 which is a 30% acceptance rate. The last 2 cycles were like this: BOSTON COLLEGE - ED 27% (800/2940) vs Class of 2025 ED 39% (1280/ …

JHU accepted 533 students from a pool of 2700 ED 1 applicants this cycle which is an admit rate of 19.74% Last year, 520 were admitted from a pool of 2500 for an acceptance rate of 20.80%

650 ED admits became Columbia Lions today out of a pool of 5738 applications for ED. Although, no one is claiming this drop to the significant retaliatory measures US News applied to Columbia, to me i …

Barnard College received a record 1671 ED applications compared to 1501 last year.

Assuming the incoming class size of 710 remains constant, Barnard filled 60% of the Class of 2027 with ED admits vers …

Just in, Yale reported it accepted 776 SCREA admits from a pool of 7744 applicants.

21 percent of applicants were deferred, 67 percent were denied, and 2 percent were withdrawn or incomplete.

Last cycle …

Copied from Emory Presser:

"Some 903 students breathed a sigh of relief when they received emails Dec. 14 announcing they had earned Early Decision admission to Emory University’s undergraduate Class o …

Just to give a brief background:

I am a Hispanic girl from the Midwest who applied to Columbia Early Decision and received a letter of deferment. I was told to write a letter of continued interest and …

Is it possible to go to elite schools if you have like a very low unweighted GPA (estimate 3.7), but have a good weighted of like 4.5? I want to know because I am curious how that will play out (also …

Last year 7795 HS students applied to UPenn for ED and 1218 made it through for an acceptance rate of 15.6%. This year over 8000 applied so my best guess is around (1200/8050) got in or 14.9%. Typical …

Today Harvard College today accepted 722 students to the Class of 2027 from a pool of 9,553 who applied under the early action program 7.53%. This is lower than the 7.87% figure from the last cycle 74 …

I’m asking this because I have a lot of other things to do and at my school, the class officers are popularity contest. Despite that, if I were to run, I would have a pretty high chance of winning bec …

Texas A&M asks "Please indicate any math course you have completed or will complete during high school from the list below" on the common app. Do the courses have to be offered by my high school or co …

I was accepted into the New York Academy of Sciences this year and I did the Junior Academy challenge this year. I’m thinking of doing another challenge for Spring 2022, but I was wondering: is this p …

I've assessed a couple of essays for the past few weeks, and most of my feedback from the writers has been pretty good. I plan to continue doing so because I feel like I'm able to provide concrete fee …

Today Wash U announced that 700 HS students including 75 Questbridge matches were admitted from around 2000 applications. Last year they had about 1785.

I'm a high school junior and I'm currently enrolled in an accredited online school, but the thing is do I put this activity as an extracurricular or can I summit the transcript from the online school …

The Holiday season is supposed to be the best time of the year filled with great celebrations such as Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year. Yet for many seniors, it's the worst time because it's college …