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Regular Decision Admits


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Yale, like many highly selective colleges, hosts students admitted via Regular Decision every spring (photo credit: Ragesoss).

We’re often asked around this time every year why our students who were admitted via Early Decision aren’t invited to their school’s admitted students weekend. After all, they committed to attend their future alma mater over every other college. They sent in applications back in the fall, so sure that this was the college for them. So why don’t they get invites to admitted students weekend? That’s an easy one! Because the college doesn’t have to convince them to matriculate! They only have to convince Regular Decision admits to attend.

The point of admitted students weekend is for the college to boost their yield. They roll out the red carpet. They assign prospective students a current student who will house them. They serve prospectives lobster dinners and sing and dance. This weekend is, in no uncertain terms, the best marketing tool the college has — its own students. No flyer will have the energy of current students. No email will make you feel like this is the college that you must attend over all others.

So if you’re a student (like many of ours) who was admitted early and didn’t get the invite to admitted students weekend, don’t worry too much. Maybe you can ask the admissions office if you can attend. The answer is likely no, though, as they quite often simply don’t have the room to put you up with all of the other prospective students on campus. During this weekend, you’re just not the priority. They already have a binding commitment from you! One last thing — don’t forget to be on your best behavior during this weekend if you do end up going as the last thing you want to happen is get your admission rescinded. It happens each and every year.

Check out our Ivy League Admissions Statistics.

Admitted High School Seniors


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Students admitted to college need to keep up their grades or risk their admissions decisions being rescinded.

If you’re a student who recently received an acceptance letter — or many acceptance letters — to the college or colleges of your dreams, be sure not to start slacking off. Why’s that? Because the very same college that may have once offered you a spot in their incoming freshman class may now choose to rescind their offer should your grades slip or should you get yourself into trouble.

About two-thirds of rescinded decisions are the result of slipping grades. Does that mean that if you get your first “B,” you’ll lose your offer of admission? No. That would be extremely unlikely. What if you get an “F” or a couple of “D’s?” In that case, yes, your offer of admission is certainly now in jeopardy. Why would you put yourself in this position? If you were able to maintain great grades for so many years, why couldn’t you do it for just a few more months? Is it really worth it to risk it all?

And what’s the other one-third of rescinded admissions decisions? Disciplinary actions. That could mean acting out at school, getting suspended, getting arrested, or even participating in senior pranks. Just because you got into college doesn’t mean you can become this whole new person who doesn’t have any regard for the rules and regulations of your school and society. Such disregard for the rules (or laws) can very well jeopardize your offer of admission. So stay out of trouble. Admitted high school seniors need to behave and keep their grades up or risk losing so much of what they’ve ever worked for.

Check out our newsletter on Senioritis.

College Admissions Glitch


The University of Delaware made a major error this past Friday when the admissions office accidentally sent out acceptance decisions to 61 applicants. It was not Delaware’s intention to admit these applicants and after the weekend they were informed of the true decision.

Writes Ellen Tumposky in an ABC News article, “[A] link for ‘my invitations’ brought students and parents to a page where they could sign up for accepted-students’ visits — and there they saw the happy words, ‘Congratulations on your acceptance to the University of Delaware.’”

Continues Tumposky, “Trouble was, only those 13,000 applicants who really had been accepted — out of 24,000 who applied — should have seen that page. Louis Hirsh, director of admissions for the university said ” ‘a chunk of computer code’ caused the problem, even though his office had tested the portal again and again before it went live.” “The college first realized something was wrong when students who had been rejected started signing up for visits. Over the weekend, they contacted the 12 students who had signed up, then on Monday realized that 61 applicants had been misled. Thirty-eight of them were actually rejected, while the rest were put on the school’s waiting list.”

This is certainly not the first time that a university admissions office has made mistakes by sending out acceptances to applicants who really should have been denied but weren’t because of a computer glitch or human error. It typically happens every year. We think that students who receive these false admissions, if they are really in the ballpark of admissions, should in the end be admitted because of the university’s error. But rarely does that ever happen.

Check out Ellen Tumposky’s ABC News article here.

Read about other computer glitches in the college admissions process: Our blog on Missing Parts of Your Submitted Application and our blog on  Truncated Essays.