The Kolly Journal.
Honest notes on getting into top schools — written by the founders of Kolly.
Admission Requirements for Princeton University
Princeton University, established in 1746, is renowned as one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions within the Ivy League. With a history stretching…
The Kolly Founders · 6 min read
Admission Requirements for Columbia University
Columbia is unusual among the Ivies. It is the only one stitched directly into a global city, the only one that still requires every undergraduate to read the…
The Kolly Founders · 8 min read
Admission Requirements for Brown University
Brown is the Ivy that asks you to design your own education. No distribution requirements, no general education checklist, no "you must take two semesters of a…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
Admission Requirements for the University of Pennsylvania
Penn is one of the trickiest Ivies to read from the outside. It looks like a traditional liberal-arts powerhouse, but the application is structured around four…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
Admission Requirements for Cornell University
Cornell is the Ivy that breaks the mold. It is the largest of the eight, the most public-facing, and the only one where you do not really apply to "the…
The Kolly Founders · 10 min read
Admission Requirements for Dartmouth College
Dartmouth is the smallest Ivy, and it knows it. While Harvard and Columbia compete on prestige and scale, Dartmouth competes on something stranger and more…
The Kolly Founders · 10 min read
Admission Requirements for Caltech
Caltech is the most unusual school on most students' lists. Roughly 2,400 undergraduates total. Acceptance rates that hover near 3%. A test-blind policy that…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
Admission Requirements for Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins occupies a strange and specific place in the American academic landscape. It bills itself as "America's first research university," and that's…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
Admission Requirements for UChicago
UChicago is the school that asks you to write about what can actually be divided by zero, then expects you to mean it. If most elite admissions feel like a…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
Admission Requirements for Duke University
Duke is one of the strangest schools to apply to. It looks like an Ivy on paper, plays like an SEC school on Saturday, and reads applications with a Southern…
The Kolly Founders · 9 min read
