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…
Ivy League and the Common App: New, Updated Info!
It’s a new application season, which means we have new advice for college applicants using the 2012 Common Application. We’ve updated our special report, Ivy League and Common Application Tips: How to Get Accepted, to reflect these changes, offering Ivy League applicants up-to-date advice on how to answer the Common App questions and individual…
Tips for Completing Your Brown Supplement to the Common Application
This post about the Brown 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. Today, when I visited the Brown website, the academic page banner proclaimed, “Brown gives students the freedom to direct their education.” If that…
Princeton Supplemental Application Tips
This post about the Princeton 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. I’ve always enjoyed working with students who are applying to Princeton. As a group, they have interesting and engaged minds. Extracurricularly, their accomplishments…
Current Full-Time Cornell Johnson Student Interview
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here’s a talk with a student who came to Cornell Johnson…
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…
Tips for Completing Your Penn Supplement to the Common Application
This post about the Penn 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. As an application reviewer and a college counselor, I struggle with the “why us?” question. The question from the University of Pennsylvania supplement…
Tips for Completing your Cornell Supplement to the Common Application
This post about the Cornell 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. A friend of mine has a son who studying at Cornell. When I look at the Cornell supplement, it isn’t hard to picture…
The Spiced Up MBA
When one applies to business school they typically worry about whether they have enough work experience under their belt, or whether they can compete with Ivy League graduates and 4.0 GPAs. But statistics show that since the financial crisis MBA programs are no longer looking for cookie cutter students. “Diversity” is the name of…
Are You Applying to Harvard College?
This post about the Harvard 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. Last year, almost 35,000 students applied to Harvard College. Of those, 2158 received offers of admission to join the class of 2015. That’s…
How Personal is Too Personal?
The personal statement is a terrific opportunity to share with admissions committees an interesting and unique aspect of your life. However, many applicants are understandably frightened of having to face the “camera” and speak personally about their lives while also trying to impress. So, how much should you tell, and how much is too much?…
Introducing Venture for America: How to Create 100,000 Jobs
This is a guest post by Andrew Yang, currently the President and Founder of Venture for America, formerly the CEO at Manhattan GMAT. Accepted.com is glad to support this initiative. When a company has a serious problem, it sends its best people to solve it. Right now our country has a serious problem…
Summarizing Your Activities on the Common Application
This post about summarizing your activities on the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2012 Common Application supplement for Ivy League schools. You’ll find the activities chart just above the essay questions on the Common Application. It looks straightforward, and in some ways, it is. …
2012 Common Application Essay Tips
This post about the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you fill out the 2012 Common Application supplement for Ivy League schools. If you are a rising high school senior, there is a good chance that the Common Application website is bookmarked on your web browser, or printed,…
Why Were YOU Rejected from College?
Ivy League acceptance rates plummeted this year, reports a Daily Beast article. But that’s not actually the topic of the article which is titled “F-Bombs and ‘Jorts’: 9 Craziest College Rejection Reasons.” Some of the reasons for rejection had absolutely nothing to do with a student’s qualifications. Here are two examples: Profanity in essays…
Ivy League Acceptance Rate Down
Acceptance rates at Ivy League institutions hit an all-time low this year, reports a Daily Pennsylvanian article last week. Penn, for example, accepted only 12.3% of applicants this year, compared to 14.2% last year. And this low rate is actually the second highest in the Ivy League, following Cornell admitting 18%, the highest rate….
Public Service Jobs on the Rise for College Grads
More and more college graduates are turning to public service jobs. The reasons, according to a recent New York Times article? The recession, the scarcity of “normal” jobs, the centrality of community service among millennials, and the fact that President Obama has made public service “cool.” In 2009, 16% more college graduates worked for…
College Admissions News Round Up
Some U.S. colleges are facing a new challenge when it comes to diversification of their freshman classes—too many Chinese applicants. According to a New York Times article, “Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges,” the economic boom in China has made the prospect of attending an American university much more of a reality for…
Britain Tries to Step Up Diversity in Higher Ed
A recent New York Times article, “Elite Institutions Are Tested on Diversity,” discusses a call for increased diversity in Great Britain’s universities — not just a call for racial diversity, but class diversity as well. Extensive research shows that despite efforts to increase diversity in higher education in Britain, little progress has been made. Students…
College Applications Continue to Rise…
…which means competition for colleges is also on the rise. Ivy League schools in particular are receiving record numbers of applications, some with double-digit percentage increases for the second year in a row. According to a Philly.com article, “Competition for colleges increasing as applications rise,” 1.5 million students apply to four-year colleges every year. This…
