Opening your UT Austin portal to find out you were offered the Coordinated Admission Program (CAP) instead of standard freshman admission is a frustrating, confusing moment. CAP is a uniquely Texan compromise: UT Austin is… 

Being waitlisted at Cornell University is a massive accomplishment that feels like a defeat. With an acceptance rate plummeting into the low single digits, surviving the initial cut means your academic profile is Ivy League… 

Opening an Ivy League admissions portal in late March and seeing the word “Waitlist” is an incredibly confusing experience. You were not rejected, meaning the admissions committee determined you are absolutely academically capable of thriving… 

Being waitlisted at the University of California, Berkeley is an emotional rollercoaster. You survived the initial rejection wave, but you are now stuck in admissions limbo. Naturally, your first instinct is to fight for your… 

Getting waitlisted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a jarring experience. You survived the initial cut at the most applied-to university in the United States, but you are still stuck on the… 

Opening an admissions update to find out you were waitlisted by New York University is a deeply frustrating experience. You weren’t rejected, but you also cannot buy the NYU hoodie and start planning your move… 

For high school students living in Texas, the college admissions process features a massive, unique advantage that doesn’t exist in most other states: the guarantee of automatic admission. Originally established in 1997 as the “Top… 

As the Ivy League scrambled to reinstate standardized testing requirements over the last year, Princeton University initially stood as a quiet holdout. While Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown rapidly demanded scores, Princeton offered applicants a… 

If you have been following the chaotic whiplash of college admissions policies over the last few years, you know that the “test-optional” era is rapidly ending for the nation’s most elite universities. In the lead-up… 

For several years during the COVID-19 pandemic, getting into Harvard without a standardized test score was a legitimate possibility. Tens of thousands of high school students who suffered from testing anxiety rejoiced at the “test-optional”…