Our Results
Partial Results of top 35 schools from 2017 to 2026
| Schools | Ranking | Number of students |
|---|---|---|
| Oxford University | #5 | 3 |
| Cambridge Oxford University | #7 | 5 |
| University of Chicago | #3 | 8 |
| Yale University | #3 | 4 |
| Stanford University | #7 | 2 |
| University of Pennsylvania | #8 | 18 |
| Johns Hopkins University | #10 | 11 |
| UC San Diego | #29 | 5 |
| Dartmouth College | #12 | 1 |
| Brown University | #14 | 7 |
| Cornell University | #16 | 19 |
| Wellesley College | #4 | 3 |
| University College London | QS#10 | 7 |
| Smith College | #15 | 4 |
| UC Berkeley | #22 | 10 |
| University of Southern California | #22 | 26 |
| University of Virginia | #25 | 36 |
| Wesleyan University | #15 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | #29 | 14 |
| University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | #27 | 22 |
| UC Santa Barbara | #30 | 32 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | #30 | 44 |
| Hamilton College | #15 | 1 |
| Schools | Ranking | Number of students |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton University | #1 | 2 |
| Harvard University | #1 | 2 |
| Columbia University | #3 | 12 |
| MIT | #3 | 3 |
| Duke University | #8 | 10 |
| Northwestern University | #10 | 13 |
| Caltech | #12 | 5 |
| Williams College | #1 | 1 |
| Vanderbilt University | #14 | 7 |
| University of Washington St. Louis | #14 | 18 |
| Rice University | #16 | 3 |
| Notre Dame University | #19 | 3 |
| Emory University | #20 | 25 |
| Swarthmore College | #3 | 5 |
| UCLA | #19 | 20 |
| Georgetown University | #22 | 8 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | #25 | 9 |
| University of Toronto | QS# 20 | 1 |
| University of Virginia | #39 | 25 |
| Wake Forest University | #27 | 10 |
| NYU | #30 | 51 |
| UC Irvine | #35 | 30 |
| UC Davis | #32 | 17 |
Students Stories
Low SAT students are admitted to Princeton University
Admission schools: Princeton University (early application), Oxford University
Service: Personal Mentor
Grades: GPA: 4.0, SAT: 1530
Chelsea has a proud background in competitions: she started to study college physics in the third year of junior high and entered the national laboratory to do projects in the second year of high school. The gold mentalist of international physics competitions. Princeton has always been Chelsea's dream school, but her SAT scores are low to apply to Princeton. The busy competition, research, and studies made Chelsea had little time to prepare for her application. Chelsea found BosonEd, and her counselors started weekly video conferences with Chelsea in January to plan the background improvement for the year. BosonEd successfully helped Chelsea apply to the world's top science summer program within a month. In March, BosonEd arranged school visits for Chelsea, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Columbia, to establish contacts with professors. Chelsea already had sufficient material when the application season officially started.
Chelsea's advantage is competition medals, but elite schools don't just like medal-winning students. More importantly, students with independent personalities, critical thinking skills, and original ideas. Therefore, her writing particularly highlighted these qualities, and it is highlighted that, as a girl, she can devote herself to physics, which seems to be a masculine major.
The rotten essay was reborn and won the favor of top universities
Admitted schools: Cornell University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University
Service: Essay Editing
Grades: GPA: 4.0, SAT: 1520
The first draft of the essay handed in by the students made the counselor shake his head repeatedly: incoherent, illogical, long-winded, and lacking in theme. Such essay was unlikely to gain admission to any top university. The counselor completely overturned the essay of student M, started from brainstorming, and re-established the structure. After rounds of brainstorming and revisions, the final version of the essay was reborn. After getting an unexpectedly good result, M told BosonEd that without the help from BosonEd, she would never have obtained such an excellent admission result.
Freshman transfers to Columbia
Admission schools: Columbia University, New York University, University of Virginia, USC
Service: Personal Mentor
Grades: GPA: 4.0, SAT: 1530
S decided to go abroad after the college entrance examination in China. Due to hasty preparations, he was only admitted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with excellent grades. After enrolling in school, S found BosonEd and expressed his desire to transfer. The counselors started from the course selection advising, and at the same time planed the extracurricular activities both within and outside the campus. One of the major difficulties in freshman transfer is that it is difficult to get recommendation letters.
From Underprivileged Roots to Yale: A Low SAT Student's Full-Ride Success
Admission school: Yale University
Service: Personal Mentor
Grades: GPA: 4.0, SAT: 1500
Vivian is a high school student from Connecticut. As the only child in a single-parent household, she carries the weight of her mother's high hopes. A straight-A student with a wide range of activities, Vivian had her sights set on Yale — but knew she wasn't quite there yet. She chose BosonEd to guide her college application journey. After a comprehensive evaluation, we decided to leverage the QuestBridge program to highlight her first-generation and underprivileged background. We also helped her build out activities that closely aligned with her academic interests, emphasizing long-term commitment and leadership. Together, we crafted a well-balanced application theme that showcased her academic strengths while also revealing the depth of her personal character. Her essays reinforced that theme through a compelling and authentic personal narrative.
In the end, Vivian received an offer of admission from her dream school — Yale — along with a full-ride scholarship.
Lacked meaningful awards and low SAT got into Penn
Accepted schools: University of Pennsylvania
Service: Personal Mentor
Grades: GPA: 4.0, SAT: 1490
Elaine is a student from New York whose dream was to study engineering at Penn. She had completed a two-year research program with a professor at NYU, but lacked meaningful awards and had an SAT score of only 1490. When she began her college application journey with BosonEd, we put together a comprehensive plan. We helped her pursue leadership roles in school clubs throughout her junior and senior years. We also crafted a strong Common App activity list that was specific, data-driven, and strategically framed. Her essays were exceptionally strong — the activity-focused writing highlighted concrete details, and more importantly, the essays reflected a cohesive application theme anchored by a compelling personal narrative. In the end, Elaine received an offer of admission to Penn Engineering with a full-tuition scholarship.
Accepted by Duke Business School without full-time work experience
Admitted schools: Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California, University of Washington at St. Louis
Service: Two- Year Personal Mentor
Grades: GMAT: 730, IELTS: 8, GPA: 84/100
Jessie signed a contract with BosonEd when she was a sophomore student. At that time, she was studying accounting at a top university in China. The goal was to apply to the top business schools in the United States. In addition to outstanding standardized exams, admission to top business schools is more important for dazzling internships and work experience. This was what Jessie was very worried about. She hoped BosonEd could use two years to improve her background. BosonEd's created a detailed plan for Jessie's background improvement.
Under BosonEd's guidance, Jessie first got a winter internship at KPMG and then at Siemens in the second year. That summer, she got a summer internship at Roland Berger. At the beginning of her application, she got an internship offer from a famous venture capital company. With the excellent internship background, GMAT scores, and professional counseling skills of BosonEd, Jessie achieved satisfactory results.
No SAT admitted by top 15 colleges
Admission schools: Vanderbilt University (early application), Cambridge University, Imperial College, University of Edinburgh
Services: Personal Mentor
Grades: No SAT, GPA: 4.0
When Lucky first joined BosonEd, his background was probably like this: there was no summer school; there were some extracurricular activities and scientific research activities; but there was no systematic planning, so it was rather messy, and there was no connection with each other. Furthermore, his English writing was weak and he had no standardized exam scores nor AP.
After BosonEd’s tailored planning, by the beginning of Lucky’s application, he had summer activities for two consecutive years, determined the application theme, and sorted out extracurricular activities—highlighted the key points and cut off the superfluous. English had been greatly improved as well. BosonEd’s counselors produced 3 different versions of the Common App essay, and finally combined the essence of each version and revised it for about 7-8 rounds. Because of this effort and time, Lucky was admitted to top schools without submitting the SAT.
