Admit Rate for Class of 2013

This post compares between the acceptance rate of various top US Universities for this year, Class of 2013.

Harvard - 7.0% (about 30,000 applicants)
Yale - 7.5% (1,981/26,000)
Stanford - 7.6% (2,300/30,428)
Princeton - 9.8%
Columbia - 9.8% (2,496/25,428)
MIT - 10.2%
Brown - 10.8% (2,708/24,988)
Dartmouth - 12.0%
UPenn - 17.1%
Cornell - 19.1% (34,381 applicants)

Cornell is catching up with UPenn soon.

The info is obtained from the links below:-
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/a-few-more-colleges-report-low-admission-rates/?hp
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/28413
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/28434
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/04/02/News/Admit.Rates.Decrease.At.Most.Ivies.Interactive.Graph-3693289.shtml

Looking into history (using graph by Emily Babay and Kritika Seksaria) - the link by dailypennsylvanian.com

UPenn - About 23% (Class of 2004), then drops to about 20%-21% (Class of 2005-2009), drops to about 18% (Class of 2010), drops to about 16% (Class of 2011), and marginally increase to about 17% (Class of 2012 and then Class of 2013).

Brown - About 15%-16% (Class of 2004-2009), about 13-14% (Class of 2010-2012), drops to about 11% (Class of 2013).

Columbia - About 15% (Class of 2004), About 10%-12% (Clas of 2005-2008), about 13% (Clas of 2009), about 11% (Class of 2010), about 10% (Class of 2011-2013).

Cornell - About 30% (Class of 2004), about 25% (Class of 2005), about 24% (Class of 2006), about 30% (Class of 2007), about 29% (Class of 2008), about 27% (Class of 2009), about 25% (Class of 2010), about 21% (Class of 2011), about 20% (Class of 2012), about 19% (Class of 2013)

Dartmouth - About 21% (Class of 2004), about 23% (Class of 2005), about 20% (Class of 2006), about 17% (Class of 2007), about 18% (Class of 2008), about 17% (Class of 2009), about 15% (Class of 2010-2011), about 13% (Class of 2012), about 12% (Class of 2013).

Princeton - About 12% (Class of 2004), about 11% (Class of 2005), about 10% (Class of 2006-2007), about 12% (Class of 2008), about 10% (Class of 2009-2013).

Harvard - About 10% (Class of 2004-2010), about 9% (Class of 2011), about 8% (Class of 2012), about 7% (Class of 2013).

Yale - About 15% (Class of 2004), about 13% (Class of 2005-2006), about 11% (Class of 2007), about 10% (Class of 2008), about 9% (Class of 2009-2010), about 10% (Class of 2011), about 8% (Class of 2012), about 7.5% (Class of 2013).

If we look at selectivity of those Ivy League universities, from toughest to easiest (Based on my naked eye observation at the graph by Emily/Kritika):-

Class of 2004 - Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2005 - Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth, Cornell
Class of 2006 - Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2007 - Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2008 - Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2009 - Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2010 - Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2011 - Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2012 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Cornell
Class of 2013 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell

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