Class of 2015
A quick roundup of Ivy application numbers
Courtesy of IvyGateBlog
As the spring semester is off to a start, high school seniors eagerly await for spring to approach in hopes of receiving their college acceptance letters. For the Ivy League schools, the percentage of applicants has greatly increased and reached record numbers from past years.
- Brown received about 31,000 applicants; the highest number the school has ever received and follows a 50 percent increase over the last 3 years.
- Harvard obtained the highest number of applicants, 35,000, with a 15 percent increase from last year.
- With the smallest number of applicants in the Ivy schools, Dartmouth had about 21,700 applicants, a 15.7 percent increase.
- Penn had a 17 percent increase with about 30,956 applicants.
- Princeton had the second smallest number of applicants, roughly 27,115, a 3.3 percent increase from the 26,247 of last year.
- Yale sees a 5 percent increase from last year with 27,230 applicants.
- And our own alma mater had a record number of 34,587 undergraduate applications, which is a 32 percent increase from last year.
(Cornell plans to announce its numbers next week)
From the looks of it, acceptance into any Ivy for 2015 graduation makes this one of the most competitive admission years ever.
Who will comprise the future freshmen of the Class of 2015? Freshmeat.
is certainly due to the Emma Watson factor!!
Right my though! We’re joking anyway, aren’t we? Maybe not, her fan base is so crazy I can easily imagine people choosing Brown so that they can get to meet her. I guess those won’t be smart enough to get through, though :-)
Penn received almost 31000 applications:
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/penn-sees-record-high-apps-class-2015
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…..its scary to think about
^Exactly. Columbia’s known to be the most selective after Harvard when it comes to admissions. With more applicants, and lesser seats, there seems to be less hope =(
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Well said. The switch to the Common App was probably one of the main factors in the increase. With the switch, more people can apply without doing any real work. I only hope that Columbia can see the real passionate applicants
“Dartmouth had about 21,700 students…”
Presumably you mean applicants.
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Harvard had “about 35,000 applicants.’ That means 34, 000 and something, probably less than Columbia’s number of 34, 600. And Harvard’s class is double the size of Columbia’s, so Harvard is easier to get into now than Columbia. Congratulations, Columbia!
With so many more applications to process, and less elements to judge, I guess the SAT scores will become more relevant than ever. If the idea of “simplifying” the admissions process was to give better chances to people from less privileged schools, I wonder if it won’t backfire. After all, the SAT scores depend on training those schools hardly ever provide.
As Upper Manhattan is gentrified and Columbia expands into Manhattanville Columbia will outshine all the Ivies. The crime and low socioeconomic status of Upper Manhattan in the 80′s and early 90′s seriously hurt the university’s reputation and ability to attract talent. When 125th St starts to look like 59th or 34th St., Columbia not Harvard will be number one.