Did you know it's possible to be guaranteed admission to certain public universities based solely on your academic credentials?  

While institutions like the University of California won’t guarantee you admission to a specific campus, the good news is that most will based on some combination of class rank, GPA and test scores.

For example, if you’re an Arizona resident interested in the University of Arizona, a 3.0+ GPA or top 25% class rank will assure you admission. Or if you’re a Texas resident interested in the University of Texas at Austin, a top 6% class rank will grant you automatic admission.

Better yet, assured admission often extends to non-residents as well. A top 10% class rank or 3.5+ GPA will assure admission to Washington State University, for example, or a 24+ ACT or 1160+ SAT will assure admission to the University of Missouri. 

Of course, you’ll still need to complete an application and sweat the details, like making sure you’ve satisfied curriculum requirements and that your GPA is calculated appropriately. To help you understand the specifics, we’ve included links to program criteria for the public institutions listed.

If that’s still too much work, consider checking out College Kickstart. We track assured admission criteria for over 25 programs across the nation and will automatically flag situations where your academic credentials appear to meet assured admission criteria for schools on your list.  It's a great way to take some of the stress out of the process!  

Click on Continue Reading to see our list of selected institutions with assured admission programs.

Here's a good article from the Washington Post with an inside look at college admissions at the University of Maryland.

Click here for the article.

Boston College announced today that it admitted 3,170 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 10,360 early action applications were received this year, up 15 percent, resulting in an early admission rate of 31 percent.  

Boston College hopes to fill approximately one-third of the Class of 2022 with students accepted early action.   

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Georgia Tech announced today that it admitted 4,677 early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Early action applications grew 16 percent to 18,124, resulting in an early action admission rate of 26 percent—46 percent for residents and 19 percent for non-residents.

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Northwestern University admitted 1,072 early decision applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Early decision applications rose 6 percent to 4,049, resulting in an early admission rate of 26 percent. With total applications topping 40,000, the overall admission rate is projected to fall to approximately 8 percent. 

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Wesleyan University admitted 279 early decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.

A total of 718 applications were received, resulting in an EDI admit rate of 39 percent.  

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Emory College admitted 503 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2021.

The overall ED1 admission rate was 31 percent.

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Oxford College at Emory admitted 223 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.

The overall ED1 admission rate was 25 percent.

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Cornell accepted 1,533 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants rose to 6,319, resulting in an admisison rate of 24.3 percent.

Legacy students made up 22.1 percent of early admits and athletes made up 11.5 percent.   

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Here's our latest list of early decision and early action dates for the Class of 2022.  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 where available, as well as last year's notification dates for reference.   

Case Western is set to announce today at 8pm ET (both EDI and EA).  Colorado College (EA), Kalamazoo and the University of Michigan are on tap for Wednesday 12/20.

With ED/EA decisions released for virtually all of the schools we track, we'll call this 38th update our final one this season. 

Good luck, seniors!

Georgetown University admitted 1,002 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 8,383 early action applications were received this year, up 7 percent, resulting in an early admission rate of 12 percent. 

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Dartmouth accepted 565 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early admission applicants grew to 2,270 this year, up 13.5 percent.  This resulted in an early admission rate of 24.9 percent.

Dartmouth anticipates these early admits will account for 47 percent of this year's class.    

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Middlebury College announced today that it admitted 326 early decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 650 early decision I applications were received this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 50 percent.

Middlebury expects admitted early decision applicants to comprise 45 percent of the targeted class size of 715.  

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The University of Notre Dame announced today that it admitted 1,636 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 6,598 early action applications were received this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 25%. Total early action applications were up 10% over the previous year.   

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Johns Hopkins admitted 610 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

A total of 2,037 early decision applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 30 percent.

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