4 Big College Admission Trends for 2024/2025
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- **UPDATE: Starting in Fall 2024, the following colleges have announced that they will now require either the SAT or ACT: Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Caltech and UT Austin.
In this video, we'll explore 4 big trends in college admissions: 1) College admissions are getting more competitive than ever, 2) The SAT is making a comeback, 3) You need a clear application theme, and 4) You need really strong essays. With admissions so competitive, you need to focus on all these areas to give you the best chance of admissions success.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Admissions is harder than ever
01:17 The SAT is making a comeback
03:34 You need an application theme
04:39 Your essays must be great
05:33 Summary
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Very insightful, you basically summarized hundreds of other CZcams videos and articles on college admission in just a few minutes!
Appreciate the consistent uploads 👍
You bet
Can you do a pros and cons video for AP & IB courses?
That's an interesting idea. For now, I would say that they're both excellent. IB (International Baccalaureate) is a two-year degree program for juniors and seniors. AP (Advanced Placement) are college level courses. Your particular high school may offer one, or the other, or both, or neither. IB is a more structured curriculum, and favors collaboration, critical thinking, and intense writing. AP is faster-paced, and has much more multiple-choice testing. If you want fast-paced learning and max flexibility, go with AP classes. If you prefer a slower pace and more depth, IB may be more rewarding for you.
Great video. Where did you get the past admissions rate for various schools (50 second mark)?
All of this information is available online. And there have been numerous studies substantiating this decline.
@@IvyAdmissionHelp I fully agree. Wanted to use the information I am doing for my research. I’m a high schooler doing a paper on reconfiguring the college education system.
I have two primary ‘themes’ in my application-would this negatively affect my chances?
Could you address the glut of Computer Science/Engineering students? My grandson had a 35 ACT score, 4.0 unweighted GPA, excellent essays and extra curriculars according to his AP teachers, and still was rejected by MIT. Now I realize that is a hard school to get into, but his portfolio project I thought would put him over the top. Any thoughts?
MIT probably turns away 3 or 4 "perfect candidates" for every 1 that it accepts. A lot can factor into this: gender, race, geography, first-generation, personal essays, etc. They have many different buckets to fill, and it's no reflection on your grandson. Fortunately, there are about 20-30 top CS/engineering programs in the US and he can be incredibly successful graduating from any one of them.
@@IvyAdmissionHelp Thank you!
Very good advice! Recently I've watched this channel which is a real good help for high school kids. With his perfect SAT score, my son will enroll JHU for premed track this year.
Congrats. Johns Hopkins is an excellent school, particularly for pre-med. But it is also a very difficult school, so be prepared to work very hard. Also, you really need to start thinking about med school starting freshman year. Look into what's required (internships, clinical experience, volunteer work, shadowing, etc.) and start early.
Does doing research / doing an internship count as "having an impact on the community"?
For example, if you conducted research that was published in a respected journal, that adds value to the scientific community. Just showing up for an internship doesn't show impact, but if you used that opportunity to propose and implement a solution to fix a problem, that definitely shows impact.
I have AMAZING extracurriculars, I am the top 5% of my class (4.5 GPA 13 AP courses), but my SAT was lacking. I scored a 1450(770 Math, 680 Reading) and decided not to submit because of all the SAT score inflation. I applied to all the top schools (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc.)… do you think I should have submitted my 1450?
A 1450 is a very good SAT score. Yes, it's a bit below the average for those schools, but it's still a very respectable score. Personally, I would have submitted it. But it's just one piece of the puzzle, so I doubt it will be the sole deciding factor in whether or not your get in.
@@IvyAdmissionHelp Thank you for your response. Technically, I can still update my SAT for schools such as Yale, Dartmouth, etc. Do you think that I should send them my score because of their recent changes on SAT testing?
I would send them your scores because a 1450 is still a very strong score. It will eliminate any doubt that you are a very competitive applicant.
These aren’t trends. This info is known already. You forgot to mention that it helps that not being Asian or a Jew is preferred by ivy schools. Helps a lot.
The return of the SAT is a definite trend, as is the continued decline in acceptance rates. I would have mentioned that it helps to come from an underrepresented background but that info is known already.
@@IvyAdmissionHelp touche
Moving the goal posts for the lower iq makes sense?!?! Glad SATs were added back as a gate keeper. Not everyone is qualified for an ivy. Like saying sports teams should have more diversity not the most qualified should be on the team. We are moving backwards as a society.
How is being Asian or Jewish not preferred when they make up the largest population in IVY league colleges? Victimhood much?