accept - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png accept - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 A New Kind of Wait List for College Admissions https://greatcollegeadvice.com/a-new-kind-of-wait-list-for-college-admissions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-kind-of-wait-list-for-college-admissions Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:00:04 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=7212 When colleges don't have room to accept a student, but also don't want to reject them, they now have a third option.

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]]> When students apply to a college, they typically get three possible responses:
ACCEPT!!!
REJECT!
WAIT LIST…
But  now there is a fourth option at some schools:
GUARANTEED ADMISSION if the student first attends another college or university for a year or perhaps two. And then they are accepted.
Why is this happening?  As colleges are increasingly swamped with applications, a small but growing number of colleges are offering this fourth option: guaranteed admission if the student goes somewhere else for a year and earns a pre-approved GPA.
According to the NY Times,
“This is an unusual mix of early admission and delayed gratification that has allowed colleges to tap their growing pools of eager candidates to help counter the enrollment slump that most institutions suffer later on, as the accepted students drop out, transfer, study abroad or take internships off campus.”
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Los Angeles, California
 

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]]> Colleges Accepting More Students Who Can Pay Full Fare – NYTimes.com https://greatcollegeadvice.com/colleges-accepting-more-students-who-can-pay-full-fare-nytimescom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colleges-accepting-more-students-who-can-pay-full-fare-nytimescom Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:30:34 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=2061 As students wait to hear from college admission offices in the next couple of days, this story from the New York Times highlights the cold, hard realities of economics. The story is entitled Colleges Accepting More Students Who Can Pay Full Fare. The title is pretty self-explanatory. With fewer parents willing or able to take […]

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]]> As students wait to hear from college admission offices in the next couple of days, this story from the New York Times highlights the cold, hard realities of economics. The story is entitled Colleges Accepting More Students Who Can Pay Full Fare.
The title is pretty self-explanatory. With fewer parents willing or able to take out huge private loans to finance a private education, we will find more colleges will move to admit more students who are able to pay full freight.
It’s not exactly fair, but it’s the reality.
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant

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