Ivy League schools require supplemental essay responses in addition to the basic Common Application or Coalition Application essay. These elite schools try to gain a deeper understanding of the applicant through these supplemental responses. Think of them as your opportunity to explain how the school is a good match for you and vise versa. Your…
Harvard Accepts Fewest Applicants of All Ivies
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Harvard University admitted just 4.6% of its applicants – 1,962 students for the entering class of fall 2018. This is down from 5.2% of applicants last year. Ivy League applicants were recently notified about their admission status. Seven of the eight schools making up the Ivy League…
Ivy Leagues Release Early-Acceptance Rates
Many students who applied for early decision/action to Ivy League schools can stop checking their mail for their acceptance letters. Nearly every Ivy League university has reported the number of applicants who were accepted early this year, according to a Business Insider article. Harvard had the lowest acceptance rate, with just 14.5% of applicants receiving…
Tips for Answering the Columbia University 2016-17 Supplemental Essay Prompts
Ivy League schools require supplemental essay responses in addition to the basic Common Application essay. These elite schools try to gain a deeper understanding of the applicant through these supplemental responses. Think of them as your opportunity to explain how the school is a good match for you and vise versa. Your goal is to…
Tips For Answering Columbia University Supplemental Essay Prompts
This post about the Columbia supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2016 Common Application supplement for Ivy League and other top schools. In addition to the basic Common Application essay, the Ivy League schools require supplemental essay responses. These extra essays help these…
Tips For Answering Columbia University Supplemental Essay Prompts
This post about the Columbia supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2016 Common Application supplement for Ivy League and other top schools. In addition to the basic Common Application essay, the Ivy League schools require supplemental essay responses. These extra essays help these…
New LinkedIn University Rankings
Exciting news! LinkedIn just launched new rankings that connect prospective students to universities based on career outcomes. Here’s how they did it (in their words) using software developers as an example: 1. First, we identified the top companies where software developers are choosing to work. 2. Next, we found people on LinkedIn who work as software developers and…
The Most Popular Resources at Accepted
For this last post of 2012, I thought you might be interested in what you — our readers, visitors, clients, and friends — visited, read, and watched the most in 2012. Top Ten Most Visited Accepted Admissions Blog Posts of 2012: Harvard Business School 2013 Essay Tips INSEAD 2013 MBA Essay Tips Tips for Completing…
2012 US News Rankings Released
The moment we’ve all been waiting for…the 2012 US News & World Report’s list of the best national universities is finally here! Although the rankings remain pretty similar to last year’s, there is a surprising number of ties this year: Top 10 Universities 1. Harvard University (tied) 1. Princeton University (tied) 3. Yale University 4….
Tips for Completing Your Application to Columbia University
This post about the Columbia supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2012 Common Application supplement for Ivy League schools. When I visited Columbia University, it was clear to me that the undergraduate college takes distinct pride in two things: the 100-year-old Core Curriculum…
Another US News Top Ten!
US News is at it again! The magazine’s newest top ten list is the top 10 Business Schools That Receive the Most Full-Time Applications. Not surprisingly, almost all the top 10 programs listed in US News’s rankings of the best business schools were also on the list of the top 10 business schools that received…
U.S. News’ Best Medical Schools 2012
U.S. News released its 2012 best medical schools report today. The lead article in the med school component of the rankings reports a few of the highlights. You’ll see that Harvard Medical School again snagged the first place spot among the best research universities. While that seems to be pretty constant year-to-year, there were…
U.S. News’ Best Law Schools 2012, Ranked Two Ways
U.S. News released its law school rankings today, with few surprises among the top 20. Yale Law School took its place at the top of the list (where it has been for the last two decades) and was followed by the rest of the top 5 regulars—Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Chicago. There is one…
Columbia University’s Application: Tips to Compel
When I was a high school student, my parents agreed that I could apply to any colleges I wanted, with the exception of those in California and New York City. Consequently, I didn’t set foot on Columbia’s campus until more than a decade later. Among both fellow Ivies and its New York City brethren, Columbia…
Dealing with Rejection
What do investor Warren Buffett, entrepreneur Ted Turner, Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy, American television journalists Meredith Vieira & Tom Brokaw, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and Nobel laureate Harold Varmus all have in common? All were rejected by Harvard. In a Wall Street Journal article of March 24, 2010, these (and other) thought and…
University of Pennsylvania Graduate and Undergraduate Financial Update
Unlike other Ivy League universities, University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has no plans of making significant budget cuts, reports a Daily Pennsylvanian article last week. Yale University, on the other hand, plans to cut graduate enrollment by 10-15% in the coming academic year; Columbia University has similar plans. The DP article…
Top Universities Run Billion Dollar Campaigns
The Chronicle last week updated us on the progress of 33 top universities’ billion dollar fund raising campaigns. Here are some highlights: The schools collectively raised $540.6 million in November 2009. Cornell University raised the most that month, at $88.8 million. The University of California at Berkeley and The University of Cincinnati came in second…
US News College Rankings 2008
US News published its Best Colleges rankings yesterday. And the list of Top Ten Universities is: 1. Princeton University (NJ)2. Harvard University (MA)3. Yale University(CT)4. Stanford University(CA)5. University of Pennsylvania5. California Institute of Technology7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology8. Duke University(NC)9. Columbia University(NY)9. University of Chicago…
MBA Admissions: Visit to Columbia Business School
I had a most enjoyable morning yesterday. I visited Columbia Business School, met with Linda Meehan, a few students, and attended a class. In our meeting I asked Linda about the possible tension that exists between being a top (in her words “the top”) finance program with roughly 50% of all MBA’s going into finance-related…
US News 2007 College Rankings:
For those of you who have not yet seen it yet, the Top Ten in US News this year are: 1. Princeton University(NJ) 2. Harvard University(MA) 3. Yale University(CT) 4. California Institute of Technology 4. Stanford University(CA) 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology…
