- April 6, 2023
An overlooked selection factor
There is a LOT of online chatter about ‘finding the right college’ and what factors to consider. One factor that we do not hear a lot about: core curriculum requirements.
Tag: elite colleges
- April 1, 2023
What exactly is the Ivy League? And the Ivy Plus?
(Nothing to do with April Fool’s.)
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising of eight colleges in the northeast with seven of them founded before the United States. Their long history and well-placed alumni have turned the name of an athletic conference into a popular cultural term for elite colleges. These eight schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania & Yale. In recent years, the emergence of elite colleges outside the group of eight gave rise to a new group: Ivy Plus, which is the Ivy League plus Duke, MIT, Stanford and University of Chicago.
- March 26, 2023
College acceptance rates
| College | Class of 2027 acceptance rate | Class of 2026 acceptance rate |
|---|---|---|
| Brown University | 5.1% | 5% |
| Columbia University | 3.9% | 3.7% |
| Dartmouth College | 6.2% | 6.2% |
| Duke University | 6% | 6.2% |
| Harvard University | 3.4% | 3.2% |
| Johns Hopkins University | 6.3% | 6.5% |
| MIT | 4.7% | 4% |
| Northwestern University | 7% | 6.8% |
| Pomona College | 7% | 7% |
| Stanford University | TBA | 3.7% |
| Swarthmore College | 6.8% | 6.9% |
| University of Chicago | 5% | 5.4% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 4.1% (estimated) | 6.5% |
| Yale University | 4.4% | 4.4% |
- March 24, 2023
What is an elite college?
The definition of an elite college can be as unique as the individual considering the question. For purposes of this blog, it is: a private college where the overall acceptance rate is less than 8%.