Honors programs are a terrific way for academically talented students to reap the benefits of a liberal arts education within the context of a large research institution.

To give you a better sense for how this can enrich your college experience, we’ve compiled a list of undergraduate honors programs from top public and private universities across the nation. We've included admission profiles where available, program benefits, whether an extra application is required and a link to each institution's offering for more details.

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Brown announced this month that it will reinstate standardized testing requirements for most applicants beginning with the class of 2029.  

Exceptions will be permitted for some applicants where the IB or a national exam may be substituted, and the school will continue to be test-optional for student veterans, transfer applicants, and Resumed Undergraduate Education students

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The University of Georgia offered 9,000 early action applicants to the Class of 2028.

A total of 26,760 applications were received, up 3.5 percent from the previous year, resulting in an admit rate of 34 percent.  

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Harvard announced today that it admitted 692 applicants to the Class of 2028 under restrictive early action.  

A total of 7,921 early applications were receive, resulting in an early admission rate of 8.74 percent, up over last year's rate of 7.56 percent. 

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Looking for a way to enhance admission odds without obligating yourself to attend?  Here's a list of colleges with early action admission rates that are at least 50% higher than their regular decision admission rates.  

Unlike Early Decision, Early Action is non-binding, so it nearly always works to your advantage.  And as the list shows, this advantage can be meaningful if you're a competitive applicant...all for simply applying 45-60 days earlier than normal.  

With most early action deadlines occurring in early November, the time is now to take a closer look. 

U.S. News & World Report released their 2024 college rankings yesterday.  Approximately 80% of the nearly 1,500 schools ranked returned their information, including 99 of the top 100 ranked national universities and 97 of the top 100 ranked national liberal arts colleges.

Significant changes were made to this year's methodology, including more emphasis on social mobility and outcomes and changes to weightings.

Princeton retains sole possession of the top spot for National Universities, and Williams College tops the list of Liberal Arts Colleges.  

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Hot off the press!  We've had a chance to review the preliminary Fall 2023 admissions data released recently by the University of California and we thought it would be helpful to summarize it and share our key findings.  

Overall freshman admission rates increased systemwide from 60 percent to 63 percent year-over-year, fueled by a 2.1 percent decline in applications and 3.3 percent increase in acceptances. If you're an out of state or international student, pay close attention...there continues to be a window of opportunity to take advantage of favorable rates at a couple of UC campuses.

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Here's our updated list of reported overall admission rates for the Class of 2027. Results are now available for American University, Amherst College, Barnard College, Bates College, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brigham Young University, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Colby College, Colgate, Colorado College, Columbia University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Denison, Duke, Elon, Emory College and Oxford at Emory, Fairfield University, Florida State, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Macalester, Middlebury, MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Pitzer College, Rice, Santa Clara University, Smith College, Swarthmore, Tufts, Tulane, University of Georgia, University of Richmond, University of Southern California, University of Vermont, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, VillanovaWellesley, Wesleyan, Williams College and Yale.  Latest year application totals are available for many more.

Bookmark this page as we'll update frequently as more institutions report results. 

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Here's our updated list of regular decision notification dates for the Class of 2027.  As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here, along with the notification dates from last year.  Bookmark this site, as we'll post updates often.

Good luck, seniors!

Georgetown announced today that it admitted 13 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 3,263 students were admitted out of 25,519 applicants.  

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Duke announced today that it offered regular admission to 2,148 students for the Class of 2027.

A total of 44,489 regular decision applications were received, resulting in a regular decision acceptance rate of 4.6 percent.  

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Emory University announced today it admitted 5,445 applicants to the Class of 2027.

A total of 33,534 applications were received.

A total of 3,428 were offered admission to Emory College and 3,335 were offered admission to Oxford College.  61 percent of applicants applied to both colleges and 1,376 were accepted to both.

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Columbia University announced it admitted 3.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.

2,246 applicants were admitted from a total pool of 57,129 applications.

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Brown announced today that it admitted 5 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 51,302 applications were received for the year.

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Yale announced today that it admitted 2,275 applicants to the Class of 2027.

A total of 52,250 applications were received this year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 4.4 percent. 

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