Mail Call

A stack of college newsletters awaited Team Fennessey after break. They are mostly updates about Early Action and Early Decision review and one important update regarding mid-year grades. Here are some highlights:

• Georgetown University received 6600 Early Action applicantions, and offered admission to 17% of the candidates. Average class rank of these admitted superstars? Top 3%. Mean SAT Critical Reading and Math 680-780 on each section. They do not consider the Writing portion of the SAT.
• Rice University received over 1,000 applications for their Early Decision program, and offered admission to only 298 students. They anticipate over 13,000 applications after the Regular Decision deadline.
• Boston College received 6200 Early Action applications (a 7% increase from last year) and admitted 43% of them. Last year, about 20% of the students who were deferred Early Action were admitted in the Regular Decision review process.
• UNC Chapel Hill received over 14,000 applicants for their first deadline. Important: If you are a UNC Chapel Hill applicant who is admitted during the first deadline or has applied for the second deadline, you are required to self report your midyear grades online. Most colleges ask us to report your grades, so this is different than what is expected from most colleges.
• Ah, Stanford. They received a record-breaking number of Restrictive Early Action applications (5929), an increase of 6% from the previous year. They admitted a whopping 754 of these applicants. Do the math - that's a 13% admit rate. Ouch! Adding insult to injury, only 9% of the students who weren't offered admission were deferred to the Regular Decision process. Everyone else was denied admission.

Good luck finishing up your applications and studying for exams!

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