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— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
January 22, 2025
Cal Poly鈥檚 San Luis Obispo campus is the most selective school in the California State University (CSU) system. Taking less than 30% of first-year applicants, the mid-50% of enrolled...
California residents have no shortage of phenomenal public institutions within the borders of their home state. UC Davis, for example, ranks in the top 40 national universities and the...
Now accepting just 30%-40% of freshman applicants, San Diego State University is one of the more selective schools in the California State University (CSU) system. Unless your high school...
Only about one-quarter of the 100,000 freshman applicants to UC Santa Barbara are admitted. This makes the school about three times as selective as it was back in the...
If you desire to call yourself a University of California Irvine Anteater, you are far from alone. With over 121,000 freshman applicants, UCI can only accept about 25% of...
You long to become a member of the Wolfpack, but you don鈥檛 have the stellar grades and test scores to get admitted to NC State directly out of high...
Florida State University accepts about a quarter of freshman applicants and the mid-50% GPA for admitted students is 4.2-4.6. Given this spectacularly high level of selectivity, many aspiring Seminoles...
If you want to attend UC San Diego as a freshman, you鈥檒l need to possess close to a 4.0 cumulative high school GPA. However, if you fell short of...
January 21, 2025
For those applying as first-year applicants, Barnard College has a single-digit acceptance rate. The standards for this Columbia-affiliated women鈥檚 college have reached full-blown Ivy League levels. More promising for...
Sports fandom these days can be an ethical minefield. For example: should we continue to tune in to college sports when the athletes aren鈥檛 compensated for their labor despite...
Tufts University is now a full-fledged member of the single-digit club鈥攕chools that reject more than 9 of every 10 individuals who apply. While the Tufts transfer acceptance rate is...
If your goal has always been to become a Terrapin but you don鈥檛 have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don鈥檛...
In a typical year, UMiami accepts between 1,000 and 1,500 transfer applicants. This gives hope to many prospective applicants to a school that now boasts a sub-20% freshman admit...
A sharp rise in selectivity at the University of Florida in the 2020s has made the goal of becoming a Gator more difficult to achieve than ever before. While...
If your dream is to become a Nittany Lion but you don鈥檛 have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don鈥檛 worry鈥攁ll...
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland is among the Ivy-equivalent colleges that now perennially sports a single-digit acceptance rate. This means that very few of the deserving crop of...
Much like the Ivy League colleges, Stanford, and MIT, the University of Chicago rejects many applicants who possess near-perfect (or perfect) test scores, grades, and extracurricular profiles. To further...
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of the most competitive private universities in the country. They reject close to 9 of every 10 applicants who apply to...
UCLA is a school with a single-digit acceptance rate for freshman applicants. However, unlike at other elite universities like Stanford or Harvard, transferring into UCLA is a proposition with...
January 20, 2025
A good internship offers practical, immersive ways for students to understand what is required of a certain career and field. And high school is often an ideal time for...
