Decisions, Decisions
Colleges evaluate applications as they are received versus waiting to evaluate all applications after a hard deadline.
What is Rolling Admissions?
Located in Indiana, this private university with a strong football tradition requires the SAT or ACT.
What is University of Notre Dame?
A four-year undergraduate institution that takes a broader approach to education by focusing on the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences
What is a Liberal Arts College?
While optional at many schools, it is recommended if you can sign up. College admissions offices use this to assess a student’s interests, communication skills, and fit for the school.
What is an interview?
This Ivy League school in Rhode Island has the same surname as the "Godfather of Soul."
What is Brown?
These decision plans are binding: A student who is accepted via this method must attend said college.
What is Early Decision?
This Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut, reinstated its SAT/ACT requirement in the Fall of 2025.
What is Yale University?
Primarily funded by a state government, these colleges and universities generally have larger class sizes.
What is a Public University?
This admissions factor refers to how students show a college they are genuinely interested in attending.
What is demonstrated interest?
This large public university in California is part of the UC system.
What is Berkeley?
With this decision, you have the option to apply to several schools, review offers of admission and financial aid, and make choice.
What is Regular Decision?
This private research university in Houston, Texas, requires standardized testing and is known for small class sizes.
What is Rice University?
Founded before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, these institutions were created to provide higher education opportunities for Black students.
What are Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)?
The financial aid that allows you to work on campus and earn wages
What is Work-study?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This private university in Nashville, Tennessee is know for music and research.
What is Belmont University?
These plans are non-binding: Students receive an early response to their application but do not have to commit to the college until the normal reply date of May 1.
What is Early Action?
This West Coast private university known for engineering and entrepreneurship requires standardized testing.
What is Stanford University?
For students who want to experience the hustle and bustle of city life alongside their studies. Not usually campus-based, but have buildings scattered around the city, so you really feel part of city life.
What is an Urban Campus?
Colleges often request this report to review a student’s academic performance during the first half of senior year.
What is a mid-year grade report?
One of two Jesuit universities in the state of Massachusetts.
What is Boston College?
This admissions decision means a student is neither accepted nor denied, but asked to wait for a final decision.
What is waitlisted?
This large public university won the college football national championship in 2025. They will go back to requiring standardized testing in the Fall of 2026.
What is The Ohio State University?
This kind of campus often features green space, residential halls, and easy access to nearby neighborhoods.
What is a suburban campus?
This application helps determine eligibility for need-based aid and some scholarships.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
This private university in Indianapolis is nationally recognized for strong undergraduate business, pharmacy, and physician assistant programs.
What is Butler University?