Princeton University is an Ivy League school in you guessed it, Princeton, New Jersey. The student to faculty ratio is 5:1, just over 5,200 undergraduate students attend, and the academic programs are fantastic. The school is hugely popular for many reasons: exceptional resources, lovely facilities, loan-free aid packages, and its long-standing reputation as a school where smart kids have tons of fun. Princeton also has a long and checkered past with early action applications. We wrote a long-form blog post about it here, please read it!
UPenn Transfer Acceptance Rate
We’re just going to start off by saying, transferring into an Ivy League is hard. There is a common misconception that you can go to a state school or community college for a year, do alright, and transfer into an Ivy. That’s not the case. Students who might be able to get into an Ivy as a transfer are kids who were already qualified to go when applying the first time around, but didn’t quite make the cut.
What is the M&T Program at Upenn
UPenn is a fantastic school. So much so that lots of people want to go there. In fact, with a 2020 acceptance rate of just 8 percent, it’s one of the most selective schools in the nation. That’s in part because of its unparalleled academic offerings. The school has numerous specialized and interdisciplinary tracks for students interested in things like international business. One of its most renowned programs is the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. In this post, we’ll tell you more about it and who should apply.
Yale University Transfer Acceptance Rate
Yale is an incredibly hard school to get into. In fact, its acceptance rate is about 6 percent. Transfer rates are notoriously hard to pin down, but a 2017 said the transfer rate at Yale was about 2.5 percent. Why is the transfer rate so low, you might ask? Well, very few people leave Yale each year. You see, when a university accepts its freshman class, it doesn’t typically leave spots open for transfer students to join in sophomore year. A school like Yale has high matriculation rates anyway, so they’re really hoping to seal the deal with the 6 percent-or-so of applicants they admit each year. So, if you’re hoping to be in the teeny, tiny fraction of people who does make it in as a transfer, we have some advice for you:
How to Write the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Supplement Essays 2020-2021
Harvard is Test-Optional for 2020-2021 because of Coronavirus/COVID-19
It’s official! Harvard released an stating that not only are SAT Subject Tests optional (which they announced in March) but now SAT and ACT scores are also going to be optional for this upcoming application cycle. In their introduction, Harvard states that due to elevated levels of anxiety and uncertainty, that they are making this adjustment because they: “want to be helpful in any way we can.”
Harvard Acceptance Rate for Legacy Students
Students work hard their entire high school careers with their eyes on the Ivy League. But while they might be busting their behinds to break the single-digit entry rate barriers, what they may not realize is the odds might be even less in their favor. According to data published in the Harvard Crimson, legacies are given a significant amount of preferential treatment. While we don’t know how many seats are reserved for legacy students each year, we can tell you that legacy students are typically represented disproportionately in every freshman class.
What Are My Chances at the Ivy’s?
As we’ve stated before, we do our best to answer the emails we receive from our readers. Recently, we wrote a blog post titled “Which Ivy League Should I Go To?” and in that post we kindly requested that our readers stop asking both that question, and variants of it. If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you should know that we do not subscribe to the theory that everyone needs to go to an Ivy League school.
What are my Chances of Getting into Cornell?
Our clients and the regular readers of this blog should know by now that we do not subscribe to the insane theory that everyone should go to an Ivy League school. The truth is that most students ’t better off at an Ivy, and one of our goals is to demystify the application process so that kids can apply to schools that they actually have a chance of getting into. That said, there are still a lot of high school students (and parents) out there that think the Ivy League is the only way to go.
Which Ivy League School Should I Go To?
Subject: College choice
Message: Hi! I’ve read your website and it seems like you’ve helped a ton of people get direction on their university choice. I was wondering if you could help me out too? I really have no idea where I want to go and I’m in my senior year of high school. I want to get into one of the Ivy’s but I don’t know particularly why or which one.
Ivy League Freshman Class Size
Getting Into an Ivy League School with C’s?
Recently we got this email:
Subject: Getting into ivy league with C's??
Message: Hi, I am currently a junior in high school and I was never really interested in studies and getting into good colleges back when I started 9th grade. But now, I finally found the motivation but I feel like its too late. Is there anything I can do with the time I have to boost myself?
B+/A- Students: What You Need to Know about Top Tier Admissions
The Ivy Leagues schools are the way they are for a reason. That is, they are extremely exclusive. There are a number of really strong students across the country, but only a handful are Ivy league applicant material. Colleges advertise to B+ and A- students. We advise that students who fall into that range be skeptical. You’re clearly smart and successful, but at the end of the day, the Ivies ’t probably ’t going to accept you.
Help with an Ivy League Application
When it comes to Ivy League applications, the hardest part is figuring out exactly what to write about. We’re written about Ivy League common app essay topics, but this blog post is exclusively about supplements. Here you can read our advice on how to write the supplements for all of the Ivy’s: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. But this post will provide general tips that apply to every Ivy.
Helpful Harvard College Essay Tips
The Harvard supplement is optional, which is one of the reasons for their very, very low acceptance rate. Plenty of unqualified kids think, “Hey. No essay? I’ll throw my hat in.” If you’re serious about applying and your scores and GPA fall into Harvard’s range, then write the essay.
How to Write the Stanford Supplement 2018-2019
Stanford has become iconic for being hard to get into. It’s a great school, we know, but deciding to apply to Stanford is picking to fight an uphill battle. Last year, over 44,000 people applied. 2085 got in. The acceptance rate was 4.7%. That’s half of what it was just 10 years ago (2008 was 9.5%). The scores kids got in with? Pretty close to perfect.
Applying to all Ivy League Schools is a Bad Idea
Here is a typical email (paraphrased) that we get this time of year…
My kid is applying to college, and we’re looking to hire someone to help us. He isn’t sure where he wants to go, so can you just do all of the Ivy League apps with him? We can do the rest on our own.
The only answer we give (albeit in a wordier and more *slightly* friendly format) is “N.O. Absolutely no.”
How to Get into an Ivy League School with a B+ GPA
2018 Acceptance Analysis
2018 acceptances for the Class of 2022 are out and what we predicted has come to pass: it is harder to get into college than ever. HOT TAKE. Acceptance rates are plummeting, and the rates at top schools have yet again hit record lows. At the same time, the number of applicants who were waitlisted is off of the charts. Colleges are becoming more conservative in their admissions decisions. Unfortunately, students are bearing the brunt of it.