2024 Admissions Results
Princeton was the most popular “dream school” for our students this year. 12 of our students applied to Princeton, and 3 of those 12 got in (25% acceptance rate).
Big Green Admissions Results for 2024
We’ve just concluded another year of competitive college admissions at Big Green College Prep, and here are some of our company stats and insights for the 2023/2024 application cycle.
Enrollment
This year we helped 24 students with college applications. That’s in addition to 21 students in our SAT/ACT prep program, and 12 students in our Candidacy Building program for middle school students and high school underclassmen.
Demographics
Our students came from all across the country, and all around the world. The most popular regions were the Northeast (#1), California (#2), and Texas and Illinois (tied for #3). We also had 8 international students, and the most popular regions were India (#1), China (#2), and the U.K. (#3).
Admissions Stats
Of the 24 students we helped with college admissions, 22 of them (92%) got accepted to a Top 30 university, and 18 of them (75%) got accepted to a Top 20 university. The two students who didn’t get into a Top 30 university got into NYU (ranked #35) and Boston College (ranked #39), which were their first choice schools. 12 of our students (50%) got accepted to their first-choice school. 100% of our students got accepted to a Top 40 college.
Acceptance Results
Here’s where our 24 students plan to enroll next fall: Harvard (1), Yale (1), Princeton (3), MIT (2), UPenn (2), Dartmouth (1), Stanford (2), Brown (1), Duke (1), Amherst (1), Northwestern (1), Cornell (1), UC Berkeley (1), UMich (1), Georgetown (2), Carnegie Mellon (1), NYU (1), Boston College (1). Three students accepted spots on the waitlists at Stanford, Yale, and Princeton, which may affect their final decision.
SAT/ACT Test Prep Results
21 students enrolled in our SAT/ACT test prep program. The average improvement — from first timed practice test to final official super-score — was 230 points on the SAT, and 4-5 points on the ACT. Two of our students scored a perfect 800 on the English section, and six of our students scored a perfect 800 on the Math. One student scored a perfect 1600.
Conclusions
Once again, we saw that the vast majority of students who got into their top-choice school had three things in common: 1) a strong SAT/ACT score (1550/35), 2) a clear application theme, and 3) well-written essays. Increasingly we’re finding that students need all three. This, of course, is in addition to an excellent GPA and impressive extracurricular achievement.
Testimonials
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MIT was also a popular choice among our students this year, both for the strength of their CS/engineering programs, and for the top-rated undergraduate business program at Sloan. 6 of our students applied to MIT, and two got accepted (33% acceptance rate).
This year, many of our students took the new digital SAT. Our prep work combined practice on both the digital and paper versions. On average, students who enrolled in our Full Course improved 230 points on the SAT, and 4-5 points on the ACT.