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Ivy League Admission Statistics for Class of 2013

Ivies Plus© – Class of 2013

IVIES + SM	Overall			Early Round			Estimated Regular Decision
2013	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Ivies	24,145	202,942	11.90	4,693	19,465	24.11	19,452	183,477	10.60
MIT + Stanford	3,982	46,089	8.64	1,229	10,382	11.84	2,753	35,707	7.71
Total	28,127	249,031	11.29	5,922	29,847	19.84	22,205	219,184	10.13

Ivies Plus© – Classes of 2011-2013

IVIES + SM	2013			2012			2011
2013	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Ivies	24,145	202,942	11.90	23,893	187,395	12.75	22,953	168,865	13.59
MIT + Stanford	3,982	46,089	8.64	3,954	38,694	10.22	4,017	36,403	11.03
Total	28,127	249,031	11.29	27,847	226,089	12.32	26,970	205,268	13.14

Ivy League – Class of 2013

IVIES	Overall			Early Round			Estimated Regular Decision
2013	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Brown	2,708	24,988	10.84	551	2,343	23.52	2,157	22,645	9.53
Columbia	2,497	25,428	9.82	594	2,945	20.17	1,903	22,483	8.46
Cornell	6,567	34,381	19.10	1,249	3,405	36.68	5,318	30,976	17.17
Dartmouth	2,184	18,130	12.05	401	1,550	25.87	1,783	16,580	10.75
Harvard	2,131	29,112	7.32	0	0	0.00	2,131	29,112	7.32
Penn	3,926	22,939	17.11	1,156	3,666	31.53	2,770	19,273	14.37
Princeton	2,181	21,964	9.93	0	0	0.00	2,181	21,964	9.93
Yale	1,951	26,000	7.50	742	5,556	13.35	1,209	20,444	5.91
Total Ivies	24,145	202,942	11.90	4,693	19,465	24.11	19,452	183,477	10.60

Ivy League – Classes of 2011-2013

IVIES	2013			2012			2011
Overall	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Brown	2,708	24,988	10.84	2,828	20,633	13.71	2,683	19,097	14.05
Columbia	2,497	25,428	9.82	2,418	22,585	10.71	2,255	21,343	10.57
Cornell	6,567	34,381	19.10	6,834	33,073	20.66	6,503	30,383	21.40
Dartmouth	2,184	18,130	12.05	2,228	16,538	13.47	2,166	14,176	15.28
Harvard	2,131	29,112	7.32	1,948	27,462	7.09	2,058	22,955	8.97
Penn	3,926	22,939	17.11	3,769	22,922	16.44	3,637	22,646	16.06
Princeton	2,181	21,964	9.93	1,976	21,369	9.25	1,791	18,942	9.46
Yale	1,951	26,000	7.50	1,892	22,813	8.29	1,860	19,323	9.63
Total Ivies	24,145	202,942	11.90	23,893	187,395	12.75	22,953	168,865	13.59

MIT and Stanford – Class of 2013

MIT + Stanford	Overall			Early Round			Estimated Regular Decision
2013	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Stanford	2,385	30,428	7.84	689	5,363	12.85	1,696	25,065	6.77
MIT	1,597	15,661	10.20	540	5,019	10.76	1,057	10,642	9.93
Total	3,982	46,089	8.64	1,229	10,382	11.84	2,753	35,707	7.71

MIT and Stanford – Classes of 2011-2013

MIT + Stanford	2013			2012			2011
2013	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
Stanford	2,385	30,428	7.84	2,400	25,298	9.49	2,464	23,958	10.28
MIT	1,597	15,661	10.20	1,554	13,396	11.60	1,553	12,445	12.48
Total	3,982	46,089	8.64	3,954	38,694	10.22	4,017	36,403	11.03

Review of Ivy League Plus Stanford and MIT
Class of 2013 – Entering Fall 2009

BROWN

Brown University admitted 2,708 students – 551 of them through early decision. A total of 24,988 applications were received for regular and early decision admissions slots, a 21 percent increase over last year’s pool of 20,633. In 2008, Brown admitted 2,828 students, including 68 from its waitlist, and 1,550 enrolled.

The University set a record low admission rate of 10.8 percent, down from 13.71 percent in 2008.

COLUMBIA

Columbia admitted 2,497 students out of 25,428 applications for a combined admit rate of 9.82 percent. The overall admit rate decreased from 10.71 percent in 2008 when 2,418 were accepted after using the waiting list.

Columbia College received a total of 21,274 applications, and admitted only 1,898 students. The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science experienced a similar surge in the number of applications received, admitting 599 students out of a pool of 4,154, for an admit rate of 14.4 percent.

2013	Overall			Early Round			Estimated Regular Decision
Columbia	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%	Admit	Applied	%
CC	1,898	21,274	8.92	454	2,442	18.59	1,444	18,832	7.67
SEAS	599	4,154	14.42	140	503	27.83	459	3,651	12.57
Combined	2,497	25,428	9.82	594	2,945	20.17	1,903	22,483	8.46

CORNELL

According to its Office of Admissions and Enrollment, Cornell has received an all-time high of 34,381 applications for freshman admission, for the Class of 2013. The overall admit rate reported by Cornell is 19.1 percent, slightly down from last year’s admit rate of 20.66 percent.

Cornell admitted around 6,567 applicants with 5,318 regular decision applicants and 1,249 Early Decision applicants. Cornell admitted 36.68 percent of Early Decision applicants, but only accepted 17.2 percent of applicants for regular admissions. In 2008, Cornell received 33,073 applications, accepted 6,834 students including 44 from the waiting list for an enrollment of 3,139 students.

DARTMOUTH

Dartmouth College extended offers of admission to 2,184 applicants for its Class of 2013, from a pool of 18,130 – the largest of number of applicants in the College’s history – and a 10 percent increase. In 2008, Dartmouth admitted 2,128 applicants from a pool of 16,538. Dartmouth admitted 41 students from the waiting list for a total enrollment of 1095 students for the Class of 2012.

HARVARD

Harvard accepted a record low 7.3 percent of applicants to the Class of 2013. 2,131 high school seniors were selected from a pool of 29,112 applicants. The pool reflected an increase from 27,462 in 2008 and 22,955 in 2007. After admitting about 200 students from its waiting list in 2008, Harvard is expected to admit about 85 students in May 2009.

PENN

Penn admitted a total of 3,926 of 22,939 applications. Penn’s overall acceptance rate increased to 17.11 percent for the class of 2013. Last year, 22,935 students applied and 3,902 or 17% were accepted, including close to 300 students from the waiting list. In April 2008, Penn announced a total admission of 3,769 of 22,922 applications.

2,411 students were accepted to the College of Arts and Sciences, 837 to the School of Engineering and Applied Science, 544 to Wharton and 134 to the School of Nursing.

PRINCETON

Princeton University has admitted 9.93 percent of the 21,964 applicants who sought admission to the Class of 2013. Only 2,181 members of the largest applicant pool in the University’s history were offered spots in the second admission cycle without Early Decision. There were 31 students admitted from the waiting list for the Class of 2013.

The acceptance rate is higher than it has been in each of the last two years. Last spring, the University admitted a record-low 9.25 percent of the 21,369 applicants who sought spots in the Class of 2012. In 2007, the University accepted 9.46 percent of those who applied to the Class of 2011.

MIT

MIT admitted 1,597 students out of 15,661 applicants for the Class of 2013. As a result, the acceptance rate plummeted to a record-low 10.2 percent, a substantial decrease from the Class of 2012’s 11.6 percent acceptance rate. The 15,661 applications for the Class of 2013 represented an increase of 17 percent over the previous year. In 2008, MIT admitted 1,554 students of 13,396 applicants for a 11.6 percent admission rate.

STANFORD

Stanford University received an unprecedented 30,428 applications and offered admission to 2,385 candidates for its undergraduate Class of 2013.

The figure, which includes 689 candidates admitted in December through Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action Program and 85 students admitted via the waiting list, represents an admission rate of just 7.6 percent, the most competitive in the university’s history.

Last year, Stanford admitted 2400 students out of 25,298 applicants for admission to the Class of 2012 for an overall admission rate of 9.5%.

YALE

Yale College admitted a record-low 7.5 percent of applicants this year. Last year, Yale’s final admit rate was 8.6 percent after students were admitted from the waitlist. Yale accepted 1,951 students out of the 26,000 total early and regular applicants for the class of 2013. Yale admitted 1,209 of the 23,088 applicants in its regular decision pool, an initial regular admission rate of 5.4 percent. Out of the 4,888 students who applied early action to Yale for the Class of 2012, 885 were accepted for an 18.1 percent acceptance rate. This year, the application pool grew to 5,556 but with only 742 admitted students, the admission rate fell to 13%.

Other Selective Universities and LACs

Class 2013	Admit	Applied	Admit
Amherst	1,151	7,667	15.01%
Bowdoin	1,104	5,940	18.59%
Chicago	3,652	13,600	26.85%
Claremont McKenna	671	4,276	15.69%
Duke	4,065	23,843	17.05%
Emory	4,500	15,611	28.83%
Johns Hopkins	4,000	16,119	24.82%
Middlebury	1,520	6,904	22.02%
Northwestern	6,864	25,000	27.46%
Pomona	966	6,151	15.70%
Smith	2,000	4,008	49.90%
Swarthmore	959	5,574	17.20%
Wesleyan	2,201	10,068	21.86%
Williams	1,218	6,017	20.24%

The admissions rate for the University of Chicago class of 2013, the first to use the Common Application, reached a record low of 26.8 percent, down one percentage point from last year and 13 points down from admissions rates four years ago. Chicago also reported a nine percent increase in applications, from 12,381 to 13,600. Despite the decrease in the admissions rate, the University admitted more students than ever, accepting 5.7 percent more students than last year for a total of 3,652 students.

With the 548 students who were accepted under the early-decision process, a total of 4,065 were admitted from the 23,843 high school seniors who applied to Duke for the Class of 2013. Duke received 1,539 early-decision applications, the second-largest number in the university’s history. The preliminary acceptance rate of 17 percent is expected to increase slightly as Duke University plans to admit additional students off the waitlist in May. In 2008, Duke announced the admission of 3,814 from a pool of 20,337 high school students, but admitted more than 200 waitlisted a few weeks later.

After admitting 25.8 percent out of 17,448 applicants in 2008, Emory University received fewer applications during the 2009 application season than in past years resulting in an increased acceptance rate. The acceptance rate rose 3 percent from 25.8 percent to 28.8, and applications dropped this year to 15,611, a 10.5 percent decrease from last year’s 17,448.

This year, Northwestern accepted 27 percent of about 25,000 applicants, compared to 26.2 percent last year. From the total of 6,864 admitted students, NU expects to receive about 2,200 deposits.

The admissions office of Tufts offered enrollment to 26 percent out of 15,038 applicants. This applicant pool had a 4-percent decrease from last year’s 16,644.

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