Predicting Ivy League Admission

Predicting Ivy League Admission September 23 Ivy Coach has a crystal ball that can predict ones chances of admission to Ivy League and other highly selective colleges. Predicting Ivy League admission is quite easy for us at Ivy Coach. Are we always right? No. Are we usually right? You bet. After all, weve been working in highly selective college admissions for many years. We have a good sense of who is going to get into Harvard, who is going to get deferred Early Decision at Dartmouth, who is going to get into Princeton, and who doesnt have the wildest chance of ever getting into Yale. We like to say that we have a crystal ball that can foresee your college admissions fate. In fact, Dartmouths newspaper, The Dartmouth, has even written about our famous crystal ball. So when parents say something along these lines to us, we reference our crystal ball as its the best way that we know how to convey to them what we think: I want my son to apply Early Decision to Penn. I know its an extreme reach for him but I dont want him wondering his whole life if he could have gotten in. His best shot of getting into Penn is to apply Early Decision so we might as well have him apply and roll the dice. Right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Our crystal ball can predict that this student with subpar grades and abysmal ACT scores doesnt have any shot whatsoever of getting into Penn via Early Decision. And so we would advise this parent not to waste his Early Decision card on a school that isnt going to admit him. After all, he only has one Early Decision card. Rather, he should use his card more wisely on a school thats a reach but not an extreme reach, not a ridiculous reach. He should use it on a school that might actually admit him. He shouldnt use it on a school that 100% will admit him because then hell always wonder like the parent suggested if he could have gotten into a more highly selective college. But to use it on a college that is an extreme reach is just as preposterous. Listen to our crystal ball. Its readings are very accurate And as for the woman in the painting to the right, she is not an employee of Ivy Coach but shes got a crystal ball just like us! And thats some gown!