Colgate announced today that it admitted 3,010 applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 17,533 applications were received, up a whopping 104 percent from last year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 17 percent.

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NYU announced today that it admitted 12.8 percent of applicants to its New York campus to the Class of 2025.  

Over 100,000 applications were received for all campuses (New York, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai).

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Middlebury announced today that it admitted 15.7 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025.

A total of 11,908 applications were received, up 30 percent from the previous year.   

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Barnard announced today that it admitted 1,084 applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 10,395 applications were received, up 10 percent from last year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 10 percent.

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Boston University announced that it admitted 18.3 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025.  

Overall, 75,733 applications were received for a targeted class size of 3,200. 

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Here's our updated list of regular decision notification dates for the Class of 2025.  As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here, along with the notification dates from last year.  Bookmark this site, as we'll post updates often.

Good luck, seniors!

Williams College announced that 8 percent of applicants were admitted to the Class of 2025.

Nearly 12,500 applications were received this year.   

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Tufts announced that 11 percent of applicants were admitted to the Class of 2025.

A total of 31,190 applications were received this year.   

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Rice University announced today that it admitted 2,749 applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 29,523 applications were received, resulting in an overall admission rate of 9 percent.  

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The University of Southern California announced today that it admitted 12 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 8,804 applicants were admitted from a pool of nearly 71,000 applications.

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Villanova University announced today that it admitted 25 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 24,399 applications were received this year.

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Macalester College announced that it admitted 31 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025.  

In total, 9,049 applications were received for early decision, early action and regular decision.

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QUESTION: what happens when a college wants a balanced class but has to draw on a much smaller male applicant pool?

ANSWER: higher admission rates for guys!

We looked at several popular coed institutions and searched for places where there was a 15% or greater admission rate advantage for male applicants.  The result: an intriguing list of 21 schools to consider.

The majority of the schools on the list are liberal arts colleges, but you'll also be surprised to see names like Baylor, Pepperdine and the University of Miami.    

To help you categorize schools into likelies, targets and reaches, we've included admission rates, mid-50th percentile SAT and ACT scores.  We've also provided links to each school's website to help you explore fit.  

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QUESTION: what happens when a college wants a balanced class but has a much smaller female applicant pool to draw on?

ANSWER: higher admission rates for females!

Like our previous post, we looked at several popular coed institutions and searched for places where there was a 15% or greater admission rate advantage, this time for women.  The result: a list of 46 schools for qualified applicants to consider.

The list is dominated by institutions strong in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), but you'll also find some unexpected names like Connecticut College and Kenyon College.    

To help you categorize schools into likelies, targets and reaches, we've included admission rates, mid-50th percentile SAT and ACT scores.  We've also provided links to each school's website to help you explore fit.  

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Washington University in St. Louis announced it admitted a total of 4,374 applicants to the Class of 2025.  

A total of 33,634 applications were submitted this year, up 20 percent year over year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 13 percent.  

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