So you want to go to an Ivy League college. Great.
You definitely should apply. But
what are your chances of getting in?
If we take the stats from this past year's admissions - admitting
for the class of 2019 - we can see that the acceptance rates are quite low
(between 5 and 15 percent) compared to the average acceptance rates for the majority of other
colleges in the nation (60 to 70 percent in recent years).
Here is a list of Ivy colleges - including Stanford, the Ivy
college of the West - with the number of applications, number of acceptances,
and resulting rate of acceptance, according to Business Insider and other
sources:
Total Apps/Accepted (Accept Rate)
Stanford 42,487/2,144 (5.05)
Harvard 37,307/1,990 (5.33)
Columbia 36,250/2,228 (6.1)
Yale 30,237/1,963 (6.49)
Princeton 27,290/1,908 (6.99)
Brown 30,397/2,580 (8.49)
Penn 37,267/3,697 (9.9)
Dartmouth 20,504/2,120 (10.3)
Cornell 41,907/6,234 (14.9)
In addition to the low acceptance rates for all these
colleges, six of the nine lowered their rate from the previous year, while one
stayed the same, indicating that, as far as the Ivies are concerned, it was
slightly more difficult to get admitted to the class of 2019.
For the class of 2020, the rates may rise or fall slightly,
but clearly these colleges are among the most selective in the US, if not the
world.
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