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Proven Tips For Ivy League Admission
There are no guarantees in the college admissions game, especially at name-brand institutions like those in the Ivy League. Not everyone is going to gain admission, even if, as I noted in my previous post, they meet the top benchmarks for acceptance: stratospheric test results and transcripts. 34,295 students applied to Harvard for the Class of 2018, and only 2,023 (5.9%) gained admission. Harvard could easily fill a second class that’s just as qualified with students from the “no” pile.
So how do you improve your odds of admission with such a super-competitive applicant pool? Since I only attended an Ivy League school, Harvard, for summer debate camp, I am hardly the expert here. Thus, I turned to a former Yale University application reader, and specialist in college admissions counseling, Dr. Kat Cohen, of the appropriately entitled education consulting concern, Here’s a paraphrase — with my advice sprinkled in — of what the good doctor ordered:
1. Start Preparing As Early As Possible
Colleges look at all four years of high school grades, courses and extracurricular involvement. They want to know that students are challenging themselves each year, and deepening their involvement in activities that interest them.
2. Take Harder Courses With Each Advancing Year
Just as college courses are designed to get more rigorous and intense with each passing year, so too should your high school courses
3. Essays Matter: Don’t Slack On The Common App
Highly selective institutions, like those in the Ivy League, ask supplementary essay questions in addition to the main Common Application essay. For example, Brown and Columbia ask variations of the “Why This College?” essay.
4. Boost Your IQ (Interest Quotient): Demonstrated Interest Matters
With more students applying to more colleges than ever before, colleges are having a difficult time predicting yield, or the percentage of admitted students who end up enrolling. Colleges, especially highly selective institutions that might be battling against one another for highly qualified applicants, want to admit students who genuinely want to attend their specific school and are, thus, likely to enroll if admitted.
Early admission rates at Ivy League schools can be much higher than the regular admission rate. For example, for the Class of 2018 Harvard admitted 21% of applicants in the early round, and with an overall admit rate of 5.9%, that means Harvard admitted just 3% of applicants from the regular admissions pool. So, boost your IQ, and dramatically improve your odds.
So how do you improve your odds of admission with such a super-competitive applicant pool? Since I only attended an Ivy League school, Harvard, for summer debate camp, I am hardly the expert here. Thus, I turned to a former Yale University application reader, and specialist in college admissions counseling, Dr. Kat Cohen, of the appropriately entitled education consulting concern, Here’s a paraphrase — with my advice sprinkled in — of what the good doctor ordered:
1. Start Preparing As Early As Possible
Colleges look at all four years of high school grades, courses and extracurricular involvement. They want to know that students are challenging themselves each year, and deepening their involvement in activities that interest them.
2. Take Harder Courses With Each Advancing Year
Just as college courses are designed to get more rigorous and intense with each passing year, so too should your high school courses
3. Essays Matter: Don’t Slack On The Common App
Highly selective institutions, like those in the Ivy League, ask supplementary essay questions in addition to the main Common Application essay. For example, Brown and Columbia ask variations of the “Why This College?” essay.
4. Boost Your IQ (Interest Quotient): Demonstrated Interest Matters
With more students applying to more colleges than ever before, colleges are having a difficult time predicting yield, or the percentage of admitted students who end up enrolling. Colleges, especially highly selective institutions that might be battling against one another for highly qualified applicants, want to admit students who genuinely want to attend their specific school and are, thus, likely to enroll if admitted.
Early admission rates at Ivy League schools can be much higher than the regular admission rate. For example, for the Class of 2018 Harvard admitted 21% of applicants in the early round, and with an overall admit rate of 5.9%, that means Harvard admitted just 3% of applicants from the regular admissions pool. So, boost your IQ, and dramatically improve your odds.
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