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Once I submit an application to a school on the Common App, can I remove that school from my list? I am considering adding a couple more schools to my list but the limit on the application portal is 2 …

Hi, I've applied to a school already but I feel like they will look at my transcript and not really know why it looks the way it does. Covid severely affected my freshman, sophomore and junior years o …

I got deferred from Harvard. Do I need to write a letter of continued interest to Harvard after being deferred in the Restrictive Early Action to increase my chances in the Regular decision round? I k …

I'm a junior who'll graduate with a GPA of about 3.5 Weighted with 8-ish AP and college courses. I have a 1530 SAT, a 36 ACT, and 10/10 extracurriculars. My grades have tanked because of a variety of …

Hi! I just want an opinion from anyone out there whether I should take the ACT... I'm not sure what to do because it's Junior year and I'm also in AP classes so I have to prepare for those exams as we …

I got to a very small school (like maybe slightly above 100 people in highschool) and they do not provide any advanced classes and I can't take a class ment for seniors. Would getting into an Ivy Leag …

I'm in tenth grade.

Sophomore

Wants to study Chemistry

Wants to attend Ivy League

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/ …

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 …

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 …

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%

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21 percent of applicants were deferred, 67 percent were denied, and 2 percent were withdrawn or incomplete.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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …