Admission rates around the Ivy League
With acceptance letters mailed out, the anxiety of students everywhere has subsided. However, it’s clear that there won’t be a huge number of happy seniors. With an increase in application numbers, the percentage of students admitted into the Class of 2015 was quite low. Across the board, the acceptance rate ranged from 6.2 percent to 18 percent.
- Harvard: 6.2 percent
- Columbia: 6.9 percent
- Yale: 7.35 percent
- Princeton: 8:39 percent
- Brown: 8.7 percent
- Dartmouth: 9.7 percent
- Penn: 12.3 percent
- Cornell: 18 percent
For Columbia, this admission rate was significantly lower than last year. With an acceptance rate of 8.3% last year, Columbia dropped to 6.9% this year. In contrast, Yale and Princeton had roughly the same admission rates from both years.
President Bollinger stated,
“I do think there is a tremendous overemphasis on selectivity as a measure of academic greatness. It’s one good feature, but I certainly don’t take pleasure in turning down 92 percent of everybody who applies. It has to be kept in perspective.”
And with the numbers of accepted students quite low, congrats to the admitted Class of 2015! You surely deserved it.
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Well Cornell has 13,900+ students and Columbia only has 5000 something. So you do the math. If Columbia was three times as big, it would affect 3 times as much applicants, and it’s acceptance rate would also be at around 18 percent. Don’t diss Cornell!
I do not represent Cornell when I wrote “affect”. I meant “have”.
I got into Columbia RD and rejected from Cornell RD. It has to be a lottery of some sort, haha.
Cornell only reports its figures for arts and sciences. Its hotel management and Agriculture school have about a 30% acceptance rate.
rich don’t be ignorant. The hotel school has the lowest acceptance rate of any school at Cornell along with aap.
I was part of that 18%!!! GO BIG RED!!!
…but I know plenty of disappointed seniors who weren’t so lucky, however, and I was rejected by some of the other Ivies I applied to, so I’ve felt both sides of this year’s admissions madness. Even the faculty at these schools are shocked! I just hope that applicants realize that being rejected from an Ivy (or several Ivies, as was the case with me) says nothing about them as an applicant, or a person. The most selective of these schools reject so many people because their applicants have such similar qualifications, and its hard to distinguish among the best of the best. In closing, to those who were accepted, CONGRATS!!!
To those who weren’t, this isn’t the end, IT DOES NOT DEFINE YOU, and in this day and age, what really matters is grad school, so if you feel you absolutely must get that Ivy league certification, you have another chance, a better chance.
, the devil is in the details And it could not be more actuarce in this article. Having said that, let me say to you just what did deliver the results. Your article (parts of it) can be quite convincing and that is probably why I am making the effort in order to opine. I do not make it a regular habit of doing that. Second, although I can certainly see a jumps in logic you come up with, I am definitely not confident of how you seem to connect the points that help to make the final result. For right now I will subscribe to your point however trust in the future you connect the dots much better.