A total of 15,792 students applied to Columbia College and 1,689 were admitted for an admit rate was 10.7%. At Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science 623 students were accepted out of 2,333 applicants for an admit rate of 26.7%. Finally, the combined Columbia College and Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science received 18,125 applicants of which only 2,312 were accepted for an admit rate of 12.8%.
Overall, the university received 24,452 applications and accepted 6,621 for an overall admit rate (in all 7 colleges) of 27.1%. Of the colleges at Cornell, the College of Arts and Sciences saw the largest increase in applicants (29.1%). For regular decision, they received 21,872 applications out of which they accepted 5,312 for an acceptance rate of 25.4%.
For early decision Cornell received 2,572 applicants and admitted 1,072 for an acceptance rate of 41.7%.
Dartmouth posted a 15% acceptance rate for regular decision, 17% overall (its lowest rate ever). 12,756 applied and 2,171 were admitted (an 8% increase over last year). The average verbal score of the admitted class was a 729 while the average math score was 732.
Dartmouth admitted 33.6% of the 1171 early decision applicants. That was a 9.1% decrease from last year's 7-year high of 1278.
This year Harvard posted its record low acceptance rate of 9.2% overall. 22,296 applied regular decision of which 2,171 were admitted. This represented a drop from last year’s overall acceptance rate of 10.3%. 56% of the applicants scored 1,400 or higher on SATs; almost 2,150 scored a perfect 800 on the SAT verbal; more than 3,200 scored an 800 on the SAT math; and nearly 3,200 were valedictorians of their high school classes.
Harvard admitted 21% of its 4,213 early applicants, the second lowest in the Ivy League. 885 students were accepted, 3120 were deferred, 135 were rejected. Their number of applicants was up 7.2% from last year.
MIT had the lowest early action acceptance rate of the non-Ivies accepting only 13.95% of 2,796 applicants.
During early action, MIT admitted only 13.5% of 2,830 applicants, denied 50 students and deferred everyone else who was not admitted. Overall, MIT received 10,440 applicants, 25 applicants fewer than in the previous year. 1,494 applicants were admitted, compared to 1,664 in the previous year yielding an acceptance rate of 14.3%, a record low. The acceptance rates for the previous two years were 16 percent.
Princeton’s experienced the steepest rise in applicants in the Ivies this year with 20.6% over last year’s number of total applicants. Princeton admitted 10.9% of the 16,510 who applied. 1,214 were admitted through regular decision, 593 were accepted previously under early decision. The Regular Decision acceptance rate was 8.4% versus an Early Decision acceptance rate of 29.1% Princeton plans to increase its class size by 12% over the next 7 years by 2012. To that end they will add approximately 28 new spaces a year.
Princeton admitted 29% of its applicants early decision and showed the biggest increase in early apps this year in the Ivies (10% more than the 1818 last year).
The overall admit rate at Stanford was the lowest ever, with 12% of the 20,195 applicants admitted: 2,426 students for the Class of 2009. Letters are being mailed to 1,559 students admitted through the regular decision process; follow-up letters have been sent to another 867 students previously offered admission through the Single-Choice Early Action program. The total number of applications increased significantly this year, rising above 20,000 for the first time in the university’s history.
The school accepted 3,916 students, or almost 21% of the 18,824 applicants for the class of 2009. The number of applicants was the highest since 2001, when a record 19,153 tried to seek admission. The average SAT score for the admitted class was a 707 verbal score, 727 math. More than 70% of those who applied with combined SAT scores of 1400 were rejected. The School of Engineering and Applied Science admitted 850 applicants, in line with the previous year. The Wharton School admitted 484 applicants for an acceptance rate of 13.6% (down from 15.2% last year). The School of Nursing admitted 123 applicants for an acceptance rate of 41.8%, an increase compared to last year’s rate of 39.7%.
Penn admitted 34% of its early decision applicants in a record breaking year for Penn: it received an all-time high of 3420 applications up from 3343 last year. The average SAT for admitted students was 1383 (1381 last year). The College received 2141 applications, 35 more than last year. The Wharton School received 860 applications, up from 801. The Nursing School received 77 applications, same as last year. The School of Engineering and Applied Science showed a 15% decrease in apps (342 applicants instead of 401).
This year Yale was the second most selective of the Ivies with a 9.7% overall acceptance rate, down from 9.9% last year. Their total number of applicants was 19,451, representing a slight decline of 1.2 percent in Yale’s application pool compared to the previous year. In total, only 1,880 applicants were admitted, the most competitive admissions rate in Yale’s history.
Yale took 17.9% of the students who applied early action (up from only 16.6% last year). 704 students were accepted out of 3,933 who applied. 47% were deferred, and a whopping 33% were rejected. Yale had the lowest early acceptance rate in the Ivy League.
