college admissions results 2024

Research and passion projects are shown to have a material impact on college applications. They help you craft your personal narrative and tell your story in a way that grades and test scores cannot. The 599 Polygence alumni that graduated high school in 2024 and responded to our survey are proof that passion projects can play a role in being accepted to your dream school.

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1741

acceptance letters

from

281

universities

5x

greater admissions chances at Top 15 Schools

$10.5M

earned in academic scholarships by our students collectively

Polygence acceptance rate to Ivies

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Penn

30%

of polygence alums who applied to ivies were accepted to one or more

5.1%

average national acceptance rate to ivies

UPenn university logo

27%

polygence acceptance rate to upenn - which is 5.5x the average 5% acceptance rate

1/3

“Nearly 1/3 of the admitted students engaged in academic research during in high school .” - upenn dean of admissions

Polygence acceptance rate to top engineering schools

MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, Purdue

51%

of polygence alums who applied to top engineering schools were accepted to one or more

CalTech university logo

38%

polygence acceptance rate to caltech - which is 12.5x higher than caltech's 3% acceptance rate

45%

of incoming caltech students included their own past research in their college applications

12.5%

polygence acceptance rate to mit - which is 2.8x higher than MIT's 4.5% acceptance rate

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Polygence acceptance rate to top UC schools

Many Polygence students have their sights set on West Coast schools. About half of our alumni applied to at least one school in the University of California System.

208

acceptance to the top uc schools this year

49%

polygence acceptance rate to berkeley - which is 4.2x the average 11.6% acceptance rate

34.7%

polygence acceptance rate to ucla - which is 3.9x the average 9% acceptance rate

Polygence acceptance rate to Top 25 schools

Top 25 Universities based on US News & World Report ranking.

58%

polygence alumni acceptance rate into top 25 schools

Stanford university logo

17.5%

polygence acceptance rate to stanford - which is 4.4x the average 4% acceptance rate

Johns Hopkins university logo

32.4%

polygence acceptance rate to johns hopkins - which is 6.5x the average 5% acceptance rate

polygence alum

accepted to mit, from state of ny

Polygence project title:

Factorization Time versus Size of Large Numbers Used In Cryptography

Polygence Results for U.S. News Rank Top 50 Universities

Polygence Results for U.S. News Rank Top 50 Universities

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