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UCAS’s Five Steps to Admissions Reform
Five Steps to Admissions Reform UCAS supports nearly 1.5 million students from 200 countries around the world to apply to higher education in the UK. Over the past three years, UCAS has been working to develop and deliver new improvements to provide a more flexible system. After consulting with 1,200 domestic and international students, over…
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Building a College List with Reach, Target, and Safety
When you are building your college list you will often come across people recommending that you have a mix of reach, target and safety schools in your list. What you are less likely to find is a description of how you can decide which colleges fit into which category, so that is what I am…
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2025 Higher Education Trends
2025 Higher Education Trends The U.S. higher education landscape is undergoing significant transformations. Declining enrollments, financial constraints, and urgency to adapt to technological advancements are the challenges faced by Institutions. Deloitte’s recent report, “2025 Higher Education Trends,” provides valuable insights into these developments. Using the research findings, this blog explores the key factors shaping this…
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Top Summer Programs: Summer Science Program (SSP)
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is a non-profit organization that provides hands-on research experience to high school seniors. It is one of the oldest pre-college enrichment programs that is run and supported by its alumni.
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Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics (YSPA)
The Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics (YSPA) is a research and enrichment program hosted at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium (LFOP) for 36 rising high school seniors. YSPA students learn practical skills in computer programming, data analysis, statistics, writing, and other research methods.
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Gearing Up for a New Academic Year
Entering a new year at school can be daunting, especially if it is high school. While ‘High School’ is a term synonymous with an overload of academics for most students, it is also a turning point for exploring your interests and career choices through extracurricular activities. That is why it is important for you to plan…
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The New Ivies in 2025- A Forbes Study
The Rise of the New Ivies The March issue of Forbes has published an article, “The New Ivies 2025: 20 Great Colleges Employers Love.” The Forbes list reassesses America’s higher education institutions’ hierarchy. There are the traditional Ivy League institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton etc. that have been historically regarded as prestigious, providing intellectual…
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Planning for College: A Guide for High School Students
These first few months of the school year are busy, busy, busy! For those entering their freshman year/Grade 9 it can be a new start to their learning while for those entering their senior year, it can very much feel like the beginning of the end. Whether you are in Grade 9, 10, 11 or…
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Acceptance Rates of Colleges at a Glance-Class of 2029
Acceptance Rates of Colleges at a Glance- Class of 2029 Introduction The 2025 college admissions cycle has seen both record-breaking application numbers and historically low acceptance rates across top universities in the U.S. While some institutions experienced an increase in acceptance rates, others became even more selective. Let us look at what the figures say…
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Public versus Private Universities?
The simple difference between Public and Private Universities is that Public universities are paid for by the state’s taxpayers and private universities run on endowments from alumni etc. This changes the way resources are allocated, and mainly the way students get admitted. For all public universities, the Common Data Set would say that the criteria…