Students and parents approached them during the admissions process with a simply assumption: If you can enter an Ivy League school, you can get inside EVERYWHERE.
Based on that assumption, many applicants devote all the time, energy and effort in their application to Harvard first, then plan to connect with their essays shortly before sending them to other schools to their list. After all, a student admitted to Harvard should be a Shoo in Duke, Northwestern or Vanderbil, right?
However, this acceptance cycle, many talented students are upset to receive an Ivy League acceptance … and a refusal from a € Ower Lower listed on their list.
As a private college admission consultant with nearly a decade experience by successfully leading students during the process, I have made countless calls from surprised parents and students who want to understand what went wrong.
The truth? The old prioritization strategy of accepting Ivy League above all is obsolete.
Admission landscape has changed – and so your strategy needs
The peer -admission landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. It is no longer a simple game of prestige or a selective hierarchy, and many schools that previously adapt to the category of œmmatchâ any Student, regardless of their profile.
In 2013, almost a quarter of students who applied to Notre Dame were accepted. Today, this acceptance rate is absorbed in only 9%. Rice University has experienced a similar increase in desirable, with more application than making from 15,408 in 2013 to 36,749 this acceptance cycle.
But it’s not just the numbers that have changed:
Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and Caltech climbed to UPENN, Cornell and Brown to collectively claim location No. 6 in the latest US news and reports. Likewise, in Forbes of America, Rice University defeated Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown for a place in Top 10.
In other words, these schools are not the second one for Ivy League – they are coveted institutions in themselves.
Umich is not looking for another Dartmouth student
Changes in institutional advantages also imply that students need to occur their IVY -focused strategy.
In the past, applying to college was largely a game with numbers. If students had grades, test results and extracurricular schools to enter a high -level school, they would likely access some so -called schools on their list. This is simply no longer the case.
With pools of applicants full of valedictorians, class presidents, national merits scholars and direct students, admission officers should appreciate other aspects.
For example, a winning application in Dartmouth will emphasize an interdisciplinary curiosity and interdisciplinary student interest to explore the numbers fields through the school’s liberal arts curriculum; Their independent learning and impatience to fix their free semester through D-plan; And their desire to get
Included in the close Hanover community.
If you believe you can make some changes to that request in exchange for an admission letter from Umich, you will write. Why? Because the University of Michigan will not require another Dartmouth student.
Michigan appreciates students who thrive in a large, research -focused environment and will benefit from its wide network of alumni and professional development opportunities.
If you do not emphasize these things, you are unlikely to not get “No because Umich is more competitive or listed too much than Dartmouth, but because you have not failed to demonstrate that you are a suitable competition for Umich campus.
Get to know your audience
Likewise, senior colleges want to see evidence of a student’s knee and demonstrated interest in their school.
Instead of simply stating that they want to live in Atlanta, our team will train the Emory applicants
Displays their unique interest in learning from Mmoray “rigorous academic community. Or emphasize
Specific initiatives related to the wider Atlanta community. Or describe the ways in which they
Would be able to find distinct ways in their target profession within the metropolis.
If your app reads as a mirror, Emory will see it as such.
Applicationdo application – and students must apply for about 11 schools – must adapt intensively to the unique culture and offers of a particular school. This requires time, introspection and expertise.
In their first year of high school, students should begin to think critically about their interests and the type of college they want to participate in. If you find out that you are an extraordinary candidate of liberal arts with a passion for small discussion -based classes and an intimate academic environment, you can be a perfect adaptation for Amherst or Williams, but fight to gain withdrawals at a mass university like the University of Miami, even though it will be.
Meanwhile, an aspirating entrepreneur that blooms in the hands, fast -paced placement can be a weak Brown candidate but a strong candidate for Babson, where the main focus is to educate business.
If this sounds like a complex task that will make the head rotate, this is because it is.
Increasingly, families are realizing that the splendor in today’s landscape of competitive acceptance is almost impossible without expert guidance. One of the biggest assets my team of graduates Ivy League+ brings to command education? This is invaluable to students – whether they are building their college lists or appear to demonstrate their specific knowledge of an institution in their additional essays.
At the end of the day, college admissions are not simply to be – good enough at school; Has to do with the exam of this You belong to there.
The right college consultant can help an application make their case in the most compelling way possible – but only if they pay personalized time and attention to understanding a student’s true interests, intentions and needs.
Many firms try to produce successful applicants through control lists, glowing extracurricuks and unauthentic-crossing projects .â through significant mentoring and long-term investments in an older student-student not only helping us make us authentic and eye-catching.
That is why our students are some of the few who receive admission letters from Dartmouth – ” AND Duke.
Christopher Rim is CEO of Command Education, a New York Post educational partner.
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