Ivy League Acceptance Rates for the Class of 2015

Ivy League acceptance rates for the class of 2015 are in. While the admissions process will continue to drag on into the summer as colleges manage their waitlists, most schools now have a pretty good picture of the acceptance numbers for the class of 2015. For the country's most selective colleges, the picture isn't pretty. Below are the acceptance rates for the eight Ivy League schools. For all of these elite schools, acceptance rates are lower this year than last.

The lower acceptance rate isn't necessarily because there are more students going to college this year. Rather, a similar number of students are sending out more applications. The lower the acceptance rates go, the more students feel they need to apply to a lot of schools to improve their chances of getting in. This situation is going to make it more difficult for colleges to predict their yield, and as a result we're going to see a lot of students stuck in waitlist limbo.

The chart below shows what the Ivy League application numbers and acceptance rates look like for the class of 2015. To learn more about each school including typical SAT and ACT scores, click on the school's name in the table.

College	Number of Applications	Acceptance Rate	Source
Brown	30,948	8.7%	Brown News and Events
Columbia	~35,000	6.9%	Columbia Spectator
Cornell	36,392	18%	Cornell Daily Sun
Dartmouth	22,385	9.7%	Dartmouth Now
Harvard	34,950	6.2%	Harvard Gazette
Princeton	27,189	8.4%	News at Princeton
University of Pennsylvania	31,659	12.3%	Daily Pennsylvanian
Yale	27,282	7.4%	Yale News
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