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Admission Stats Table: Class of 2014
Record-low acceptance rates at Harvard, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Northwestern and Duke. Admission Stats Table will be updated as new information becomes available.
| College or University |
2010 Applications (Total)
|
2009 Applications (Total) |
Number Admitted 2010 |
Percent Admitted 2010 |
Percent Admitted 2009 |
| Harvard | 30,489 | 29,114 | 2,110 | 6.9% | 7.0% |
| Yale | 25,869 | 26,000 | 1,940 | 7.5% | 7.5% |
| Princeton | 26,247 | 21,963 | 2,148 | 8.18% | 9.8% |
| Stanford | 32,000 | 30,430 | 2,300 | 7.2% | 8% |
| Brown | 30,136 | 24,900 | 2,804 | 9.3% | 10.8% |
| Penn | 26,938 | 22,808 | 3,830 | 14.2% | 17.1% |
| Duke | 26,770 | 23,875 | 3,972 | 15% | 18% |
| Cornell | 36,337 | 6,678 | 18.4% | 19% | |
| Columbia | 26,178 | 25,428 | 9.16% | 9.79% | |
| Dartmouth | 18,778 | 11.53% | 12.04% | ||
| MIT | 16,632 | 15,661 | 1,611 | 9.7% | 10.7% |
| Northwestern | 27,615 | 25,300 | ~6,350 | 23% | 27% |
| U. of Chicago | 19,370 | 3,560 | 18% | 27% | |
| Swarthmore | 6,040 | 16% | |||
| Williams | 6,633 | 6,015 | 1,201 | 18% | |
| Pomona | 6,767 | 6,148 | 980 | 18% | |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 23,238 | 23,050 | 6,960 | 30% | |
| U Virginia | 23,280 | 6,900 | 30.7% | ||
| Cal Berkeley | 50,375 | 48,640 | |||
| Vanderbilt | 21,800 | 19,350 | 3,553 | 16.3% | 18.9% |
| Washington University | ~25,000 | ~20% | ~20% | ||
| Tufts | 15,437 | 24.5% | |||
* Based on available information compiled from various sources. Not responsible for errors.
