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.
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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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Comments
What are your predictions on schools such as Columbia, Vanderbilt and Tulane which has significantly higher applications this year for various reasons? And Cornell which seemed to drop slightly in number of applications? Will their yields be lower? Will waitlisted students have a better chance or worse chance when the application pool jumps so much?
My best guess is that application numbers are higher this year than last because of more applications, not more students. Inevitably, the result will be a lower yield rate. The unpredictability of yield probably does mean that we’ll see more waitlist movement than usual.