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Early Decision/Early Action Acceptance Rates for Ivy League Schools & Other Top Colleges - Class of 2010

In order of selectivity for total acceptance rates

School Acceptance %
Yale 8.64%
Harvard 9.27%
Princeton 10.2%
Stanford 10.88%
Columbia 11.42%
MIT 12.96%
Brown 13.79%
Dartmouth 15.43%
Penn 17.69%
Duke 19.52%
Cornell 24.65%
Northwestern 28.23%
UVA 35.87%

Brown University

Up 16% from last year with 2379 early action apps (2046 last fall). 22.7% acceptance rate.

Brown accepted a record low 13.8% of applicants this year of their all time high 18,313 applicants, the lowest rate in Brown's history. Last year their acceptance rate was 14.6%. 94% of the applicants were in the top 10% of their high school class.


Columbia University

Up 5.5% to 2,275 early decision applications (to Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science). 582 were admitted for an acceptance rate of 25.6%.

Columbia accepted 9.6% of the applicants (1653/17,148). The acceptance rate for regular decision only was 7.9%. The college's acceptance rate for early was 23.2%. For SEAS, 614 students were admitted out of 2700 applicants for an admit rate of 22.7%, a school record low.


Cornell University

Up 11% receiving 2,836 early decision applications: 1106 applicants were admitted for an acceptance rate of 39%.

Cornell had their lowest acceptance rate ever with only 6927/28,097 students being accepted for an acceptance rate of 24.7%.


Dartmouth College

Up 12% from last year with 1,321 early decision applicants: 398 were admitted, 366 deferred, 520 denied, 24 incomplete (30.1% acceptance rate).

Dartmouth received 13,937 applicants, accepting a record low of 15.4% of the applicants. Of the 2150 applicants, 398 were accepted under early decision. In the regular round, the admission rate was 13.89% (1752/12,616). The class is 51.4% women with 62% more females admitted than males. 94% of the students hail from the top 10% of their high school class, 41% were ranked #1 in their high school.


Duke University

Down slightly (1%) from last year. Admitted 467 out of 1501 for an acceptance rate of 31.1%.

Duke received 19,282 applications, a 6.6% rise since last year. During regular, they sent out 3000 acceptance letters for an acceptance rate (my calculation) of 16.9%.


Harvard University

Down 5% from last year receiving 3,872 applicants for non-binding early action. Offered admission to 804 students (20.7% acceptance rate).

2,828 were deferred (73%), 149 were rejected (3.8%), 79 had incomplete applications, and 12 withdrew.

Harvard accepted 9.3% of the applicants, 2109/22,753. Nearly 2600 applicants had perfect 800 SAT verbal scores, 2700 with 800 SAT math scores, nearly 3000 were #1 in their high school class.


MIT

Up 10% from last year early action. 377 admitted out of 3098 (admit rate of 12.2%). 2,502 applicants were deferred and 216 were denied admission.

A total of only 13% of MIT applicants were accepted, a record low for the admission office. A total of 11,373 applicants applied, 1474 of whom were accepted. The acceptance rate for international students was only 4% (107/2575). 52% of the admits are male, 48% female.


Princeton University

Up 9% with 2,236 early decision applicants this year (2039 last year), offering admission to 599 students (26.8% acceptance rate).

Overall, Princeton offered admission to 1792 students out of a record 17,563 for a 10.2% acceptance rate (down from 10.9% last year). For regular decision alone, 1193 students were accepted out of 15,327 (including deferred students) for a regular decision acceptance rate of 7.8% (8.4% last year).


Stanford University

Up 4% from last year with 4,503 early action applications. Only 853 were admitted (admit rate of 18.9%).

Stanford admitted a total of 10.88%. 2430 applicants were accepted, 1578 through regular decision and 852 through early decision. For the first time in Stanford's history, they received more than 22,000 applications (22,332). More than 90% were in the top 10% of their high school class, close to 80% had 4.0 or higher in high school.


University of Pennsylvania

Up 21% from last year with 4,148 early decision applicants. 28.6% acceptance rate admitting 1,180 of its 4,120. Of the admitted students, 798 were accepted to the college, 202 to Wharton, 151 to Engineering, 29 to Nursing and 24 to Huntsman Program in International Relations and Business, 18 in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology and 14 to the new Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management.

Penn accepted a record low of 17.7% of applicants this year, accepting 3622 out of 20,479 applicants. The acceptance rate for just the regular round was 13.8% as compared to 28.6% for early. Of the accepted students, 2261 were accepted to the college, 775 to Engineering, 475 to Wharton and 112 to Nursing.


Yale University

Up 3.5% from last year with 4,084 non-binding early action apps. 724 students accepted from a pool of 4,084, (17.7% admission rate). 48% of early applicants were deferred and 33.3% were rejected. The only Ivy to take fewer than 20% for early.

Yale broke all records with the lowest acceptance rate in the Ivy League with an 8.6% acceptance rate. In sum, Yale accepted 1823/21,099 applicants, an 8.5% rise in the total number of applicants since last year. The regular decision acceptance rate was a low 5.8%.