Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:05     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
I think all of them care about them but this link just highlights a few in a way that is a bit misleading.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:02     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
All college care about rigor and GPA first.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:01     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What doesn’t make sense? It’s not saying other elements are not important. It’s just pointing out what schools have identified as very important. All that info is in the CDS anyway, the article is just synthesizing it.


Don’t think of Tulane for top rigor or NYU for personal qualities.


NYU Very Important factors according to official CDS: rigor, GPA, essays, recommendations, and personal character.

https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/cds-on-website/2024-2025%20(pdf,%20file%20size%20907KB).pdf

This article OP shared is deceptive and questionable, leaving out a lot of facts and info.




Right?

Why are these private college counselors putting crap on their website? You may wonder.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:55     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Of course Northeastern cares about recommendations since they don't essays there's no other way to tell what kind of campus community member you'll be
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:54     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Tulane cares most about if you apply ED
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:51     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
If I really squint hard, I can see ECs at Yale because everyone I know who got admitted was strong in art/music/drama. Other than that, it looks like trying to make sense of a group of hard admit schools.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:51     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What doesn’t make sense? It’s not saying other elements are not important. It’s just pointing out what schools have identified as very important. All that info is in the CDS anyway, the article is just synthesizing it.


Don’t think of Tulane for top rigor or NYU for personal qualities.


NYU Very Important factors according to official CDS: rigor, GPA, essays, recommendations, and personal character.

https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/cds-on-website/2024-2025%20(pdf,%20file%20size%20907KB).pdf

This article OP shared is deceptive and questionable, leaving out a lot of facts and info.




I get it, top schools looking for all of these factors. Odd to me which they chose to highlight I guess on some.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:49     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What doesn’t make sense? It’s not saying other elements are not important. It’s just pointing out what schools have identified as very important. All that info is in the CDS anyway, the article is just synthesizing it.


Don’t think of Tulane for top rigor or NYU for personal qualities.


NYU Very Important factors according to official CDS: rigor, GPA, essays, recommendations, and personal character.

https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/cds-on-website/2024-2025%20(pdf,%20file%20size%20907KB).pdf

This article OP shared is deceptive and questionable, leaving out a lot of facts and info.


Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:45     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Anonymous wrote:What doesn’t make sense? It’s not saying other elements are not important. It’s just pointing out what schools have identified as very important. All that info is in the CDS anyway, the article is just synthesizing it.


Don’t think of Tulane for top rigor or NYU for personal qualities.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:43     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Yeah, this is misleading and using only selective info. For example, the Amherst CDS indicates that rigor, GPA, test scores, essays, and recommendations are “very important” (the article makes it seem Amherst weighs recommendations most heavily and that’s inaccurate).

https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/C%20First-Time%2C%20First-Year%20Admission_4.pdf

Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:39     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
What doesn’t make sense? It’s not saying other elements are not important. It’s just pointing out what schools have identified as very important. All that info is in the CDS anyway, the article is just synthesizing it.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:38     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
I’m not sure how accurate this is. Look at the CDS itself to see how each school weighs all of these criteria. The list seems to only connect one criteria to each school, which isn’t how it works.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:36     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of Secondary Record: Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Tulane, UCLA
Application Essay: Stanford, Princeton, Brown
Extracurricular Activities: Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Yale
Character / Personal Qualities: NYU, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon
Recommendations: Northeastern, Emory, Amherst
https://www.commandeducation.com/the-admissions-criteria-that-top-schools-really-care-about/


I don't think it makes sense. Those are all really competitive admits and you're going to have to be strong in all of those areas for all of those schools.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:35     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
No
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:34     Subject: Does this make any sense? - Admissions Criteria that Top Schools Really Care About
Rigor of Secondary Record: Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Tulane, UCLA
Application Essay: Stanford, Princeton, Brown
Extracurricular Activities: Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Yale
Character / Personal Qualities: NYU, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon
Recommendations: Northeastern, Emory, Amherst
https://www.commandeducation.com/the-admissions-criteria-that-top-schools-really-care-about/