This is in response to Y5 parent's query on the college destinations of the recent alumni, by which I assume he or she is referring to the Class of 2009. I wouldn't want to link names to particular colleges for two reasons: (1) not everyone likes having their college destinations being revealed by an 'unauthorized' party (2) the only information with real value to a parent is where our students have been accepted, not where they ultimately choose to enroll. In fact, I'd say that the places where our students have been accepted is far more important because it reveals more about the capabilities of our graduating class, instead of ultimate enrollment decisions which are shaped by things such as financial constraints or preference for one location/culture over another and so on. I hope you also understand why I am not including the number of acceptances because once again, it will add little value while possibly creating misconceptions about one's probabilistic chances (when with universities of this caliber, it's often just a crapshoot).
Since there's been no official document collating all our acceptances, I'm compiling to the best of my knowledge an admittedly incomplete list of places where members of the Class of 2009 have been accepted. If anyone would like to add on places that I have either overlooked or am unaware of, please do. (Vanessa: I've added what I've gleaned from Open House.) For now, here's the list:
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
National University of Singapore
Singapore Management University
Singapore University of Technology and Design
US
Brandeis University
California Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvey Mudd College
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Reed College
Rice University
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of California (Berkeley)
University of California (Los Angeles)
University of Chicago
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Michigan (Ann-Arbor)
University of Texas (Austin)
Wellesley College
Yale University
Australia
University of Adelaide
University of Melbourne
University of New South Wales
University of Queensland
University of Western Australia
UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales)
Bristol University
Cambridge University
Durham University
Imperial College London
King's College London
Oxford University
University College London
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Nottingham
University of St Andrews
University of Warwick
University of York
Last updated: 25th April 2010
Showing posts with label early admits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early admits. Show all posts
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
UK unis for Class of 09
I will be relying on Zhongming to edit this post because although I know some statistics, I definitely don't know the full picture.
Imperial & UCL: If you applied for a science course and your subject and overall CAPs > 4, you probably received an unconditional offer.
Oxford: I know one person has gotten an offer for physics. I don't know if it has conditions though (or which college it's from).
Cambridge: Summarised in table form below; all offers are unconditional, which was surprising considering the Class of '08 received conditional offers.
Cambridge statistics for Class of 2009
4 offers, 2 unknowns, 3 unsuccessful.
If you have any updates, keep me posted. Thanks!
Imperial & UCL: If you applied for a science course and your subject and overall CAPs > 4, you probably received an unconditional offer.
Oxford: I know one person has gotten an offer for physics. I don't know if it has conditions though (or which college it's from).
Cambridge: Summarised in table form below; all offers are unconditional, which was surprising considering the Class of '08 received conditional offers.
Cambridge statistics for Class of 2009
4 offers, 2 unknowns, 3 unsuccessful.
If you have any updates, keep me posted. Thanks!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
ED/EA, and how local unis fit into the picture
So I realised there's nothing on this site about what ED and EA is, or at least, not much. This was written in response to a parent's comments on the tagboard.
ED/EA is a US admissions policy. ED: early decision, EA: early admission. Typically, you apply to a US college under an ED/EA plan or RD (regular decision) plan. As the name suggests, ED/EA means you apply earlier, and you also receive your decision earlier, around mid-December. If you apply RD, you only get your decision in April.
Now the difference between ED and EA. ED is binding, which means if you apply ED to a college and you get in, you are committed to go there. Obviously, you can only apply ED to one school. I'm not really sure what happens if you don't honour an ED agreement, but I'd rather not find out all the same. Schools that have ED options include Duke, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, and most of the LACs.
EA is non-binding, so you have until May to decide if you do want to go to the college or not. For most schools that offer an EA scheme, you can apply to more than one school under EA. It's common for students to apply to one ED school (their top choice), and a bunch of EA schools in case they don't get into the ED school. However, there are two colleges that offer EA but limit you to apply early only at that college: Stanford and Yale. Schools that have unrestricted EA options include MIT, UChicago, UMich, UIUC.
This is all just about applying early. You can still apply regular to as many colleges as you want, except if you get accepted into your ED school, you're obliged to withdraw all other college applications.
There are also some schools that don't have an early scheme, meaning you can only apply regular and get your decisions in April. These include Harvard, the UC schools, UWM.
As for local universities, they don't have ED/EA options. Although NUS High students have to apply earlier to NUS (Dec 1-31) compared to their A-level counterparts, everyone gets their decisions at the same time in April or May. The hallmark of ED/EA is receiving your decisions earlier.
Okay that's it for now, happy holidays!
ED/EA is a US admissions policy. ED: early decision, EA: early admission. Typically, you apply to a US college under an ED/EA plan or RD (regular decision) plan. As the name suggests, ED/EA means you apply earlier, and you also receive your decision earlier, around mid-December. If you apply RD, you only get your decision in April.
Now the difference between ED and EA. ED is binding, which means if you apply ED to a college and you get in, you are committed to go there. Obviously, you can only apply ED to one school. I'm not really sure what happens if you don't honour an ED agreement, but I'd rather not find out all the same. Schools that have ED options include Duke, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, and most of the LACs.
EA is non-binding, so you have until May to decide if you do want to go to the college or not. For most schools that offer an EA scheme, you can apply to more than one school under EA. It's common for students to apply to one ED school (their top choice), and a bunch of EA schools in case they don't get into the ED school. However, there are two colleges that offer EA but limit you to apply early only at that college: Stanford and Yale. Schools that have unrestricted EA options include MIT, UChicago, UMich, UIUC.
This is all just about applying early. You can still apply regular to as many colleges as you want, except if you get accepted into your ED school, you're obliged to withdraw all other college applications.
There are also some schools that don't have an early scheme, meaning you can only apply regular and get your decisions in April. These include Harvard, the UC schools, UWM.
As for local universities, they don't have ED/EA options. Although NUS High students have to apply earlier to NUS (Dec 1-31) compared to their A-level counterparts, everyone gets their decisions at the same time in April or May. The hallmark of ED/EA is receiving your decisions earlier.
Okay that's it for now, happy holidays!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Skipping a year to apply early.
Typically, our college admission process starts proper in Year 6, but some apply in Year 5. A few of those who were successful eventually go to college in Year 6, hence graduating early and skipping 1 year.
While I am by no means an expert on the psyche of admission officers, here is my take on skipping a year to apply early.
Pros:
1. If you arent successful you get to try again the next year, ie Year 6.
2. If you are successful you get to save 1 year and go straight to college - after all, there isnt very much more you need to learn in Year 6.
Cons:
1. If you are successful, you dont get to defer to go along at the same time as your friends. This means that you have to go.
2. No scholarships available for Year 5 students... (not the typical ones anyway, they want you to apply in Year 6 like everyone else)
3. If you cant go (refer to 1), you can reject them, but if you apply again to that school in year 6, I wonder if they will take in a student who rejected their offer a year ago.
4. The fact that you havent graduated may be detrimental to your chances (UPenn rejected Margaret because of that)
So to me you should apply early if you:
1. Dont have NS or commitments that may cause you to defer
2. Are prepared to pay your way through university or intend to apply for financial aid
3. If you think you are ready to make the jump into college and you dont need to spend another year in school
4. Think that your application is solid enough to make it that year (otherwise, why waste the $$ for applications)
A few kids from my batch applied early, and 2 eventually went (while we were Year 6) to MIT and Boston University (ie Margaret, who is going to UPenn this fall on a transfer after doing well in her 1st year of UG). I believe that another kid in Year 6 this year is going to UIUC (university of illinois urbana champaign) this year as well.
While I am by no means an expert on the psyche of admission officers, here is my take on skipping a year to apply early.
Pros:
1. If you arent successful you get to try again the next year, ie Year 6.
2. If you are successful you get to save 1 year and go straight to college - after all, there isnt very much more you need to learn in Year 6.
Cons:
1. If you are successful, you dont get to defer to go along at the same time as your friends. This means that you have to go.
2. No scholarships available for Year 5 students... (not the typical ones anyway, they want you to apply in Year 6 like everyone else)
3. If you cant go (refer to 1), you can reject them, but if you apply again to that school in year 6, I wonder if they will take in a student who rejected their offer a year ago.
4. The fact that you havent graduated may be detrimental to your chances (UPenn rejected Margaret because of that)
So to me you should apply early if you:
1. Dont have NS or commitments that may cause you to defer
2. Are prepared to pay your way through university or intend to apply for financial aid
3. If you think you are ready to make the jump into college and you dont need to spend another year in school
4. Think that your application is solid enough to make it that year (otherwise, why waste the $$ for applications)
A few kids from my batch applied early, and 2 eventually went (while we were Year 6) to MIT and Boston University (ie Margaret, who is going to UPenn this fall on a transfer after doing well in her 1st year of UG). I believe that another kid in Year 6 this year is going to UIUC (university of illinois urbana champaign) this year as well.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Early admission rate.
Yale admitted 13.4 percent of its early action applicants for the class of 2013, a significant drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate, according to the Yale Daily News. 742 early applicants were admitted from a record applicant pool of 5,557. In addition, the admissions office reports to have sent rejection letters to more than twice as many early applicants as they did last year, denying 38.3 percent of applicants and deferring 47.6 percent to the regular decision period. According to the article, Yale decided to admit fewer students this time because an unexpectedly high number of students admitted early from the class of 2012 chose to enroll.
Stanford accepted 689 of the 5,363 applicants to the Class of 2013, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. More than 25,000 students are expected to apply to Stanford through the regular admission process. The expected overall admit rate to be lower than 9 percent, the lowest rate in Stanford's history.
MIT admitted 540 of the more than 5,000 early action applicants.
http://inlikeme.com/news/college-university-news/early-admission-update-yale-stanford-mit.html
That works out to be about, let's see, 12.8% for Stanford, 13.4% for Yale, and about 11% for MIT. Even for early admits!
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The number of early decision applications decreased for the third year in a row, admissions officials announced yesterday.
(This site is good, it shows the number of applicants you are up against for the ivy league schools and the trend every year.)
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/12/04/News/Early.Decision.Applications.Drop.8.Percent.Interactive.Feature-3569319.shtml
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Yale admitted 13.4 percent of early action applicants to the class of 2013, a sharp drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate. A total of 742 early applicants were granted admission from a record pool of 5,557, Dean of Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said. The admissions office significantly increased the number of students rejected rather than deferred in the early round, a shift that garnered unanimous approval from a dozen college counselors interviewed.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26970
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Dartmouth has accepted 401 students into the Class of 2013 through the early decision admissions program. Students admitted in the early decision program will comprise approximately 35 percent of the class that matriculates in the fall of 2009. A total of 1,550 early decision applications were received, the most ever, an increase of 9 percent over last year. Students were notified via a secure website on December 10.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/12/11.html
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Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Getting admitted to Harvard College or another selective university in the U.S. is likely to grow more difficult this year because of a record number of applicants, many attracted by financial aid.
More than 29,000 students applied to Harvard, a 5.6 percent increase, breaking last year’s record of 27,462, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school said yesterday. Almost 78 percent of the applicants are seeking financial aid, compared with 73 percent a year ago, school officials said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqaX89Rg1pnc&refer=us
Stanford accepted 689 of the 5,363 applicants to the Class of 2013, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. More than 25,000 students are expected to apply to Stanford through the regular admission process. The expected overall admit rate to be lower than 9 percent, the lowest rate in Stanford's history.
MIT admitted 540 of the more than 5,000 early action applicants.
http://inlikeme.com/news/college-university-news/early-admission-update-yale-stanford-mit.html
That works out to be about, let's see, 12.8% for Stanford, 13.4% for Yale, and about 11% for MIT. Even for early admits!
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The number of early decision applications decreased for the third year in a row, admissions officials announced yesterday.
(This site is good, it shows the number of applicants you are up against for the ivy league schools and the trend every year.)
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/12/04/News/Early.Decision.Applications.Drop.8.Percent.Interactive.Feature-3569319.shtml
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Yale admitted 13.4 percent of early action applicants to the class of 2013, a sharp drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate. A total of 742 early applicants were granted admission from a record pool of 5,557, Dean of Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said. The admissions office significantly increased the number of students rejected rather than deferred in the early round, a shift that garnered unanimous approval from a dozen college counselors interviewed.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26970
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Dartmouth has accepted 401 students into the Class of 2013 through the early decision admissions program. Students admitted in the early decision program will comprise approximately 35 percent of the class that matriculates in the fall of 2009. A total of 1,550 early decision applications were received, the most ever, an increase of 9 percent over last year. Students were notified via a secure website on December 10.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/12/11.html
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Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Getting admitted to Harvard College or another selective university in the U.S. is likely to grow more difficult this year because of a record number of applicants, many attracted by financial aid.
More than 29,000 students applied to Harvard, a 5.6 percent increase, breaking last year’s record of 27,462, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school said yesterday. Almost 78 percent of the applicants are seeking financial aid, compared with 73 percent a year ago, school officials said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqaX89Rg1pnc&refer=us
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