With the Early Decision II rounds coming to a close this month, we wanted to share with you the trends we are seeing as well as our students’ successes.
Trends
In the last few years, we’ve seen a trend of much larger application pools, especially as test optional policies were adopted at the beginning of the pandemic. As we recently covered, universities are starting to re-evaluate their test optional policies, and many are returning to requiring test scores. This change in admissions requirements seems to have affected the application pools at some schools this year. Brown University, in their first year requiring test scores from applicants since the beginning of the pandemic, saw their Early Decision pool decrease 19%. Similarly, Yale University saw their Single Choice Early Action pool shrink by 14% after going back to requiring test scores.
Requiring scores, however, doesn’t necessarily mean lower application pools. We’ve recently seen a lot of interest in large, southern schools, many of which require test scores. The University of Texas at Austin reported their applications were up 24%, including an increase of 48% of out-of-state applicants. University of Georgia saw a 14% increase in their Early Action applications, and Emory University had 22% more Early Decision I applications compared to last year.
Results at Marks Education
Tracking changes in the admissions landscape helps inform the work we do every year. Our goal is for students to take strategic, layered approaches to application timing so they can get good news early in the process, which we find lowers stress. This year, over 96% of our Senior Comprehensive clients received good news in Early Decision I and II, Early Action, and/or Rolling admissions pools.
Below is a list of the 82 schools to which our students have been admitted so far this year. We have our fingers crossed for more good news to come in the next month.
American University
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Barnard College
Boston College
Chapman University
Clemson University
Colgate University
College of Charleston
College of William & Mary
College of Wooster
Columbia College Chicago
Concordia University (Canada)
Elon University
Emory University
Fairfield University
Florida International University
Fordham University
George Washington University
IE University – Madrid (Spain)
Indiana University-Bloomington
James Madison University
Lehigh University
Louisiana State University
Loyola University Chicago
McGill University (Canada)
Miami University-Oxford
Michigan State University
Montana State University
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Pomona College
Purdue University
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Santa Clara University
Shepherd University
Southern Methodist University
St. Olaf College
Suffolk University
Syracuse University
Texas A&M University
Texas Christian University
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg
Tulane University of Louisiana
Union College
University of Arizona
University of Chicago
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Oregon
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of San Francisco
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of St Andrews (UK)
University of Tampa
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-M adison
Villanova University
Wake Forest University
West Virginia University
Xavier University
