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Ivy League Admission Statistics for Class of 2013

Preliminary Results – Early Action and Early Decisions – Entering Fall 2009

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Brown University accepted 551 of the 2,348 it received for the class of 2013. The 2,348 applications for early decision this year represent a small decrease over last year 2,461 early decision applications. The drop in early applications was in part due to the drop in applications to the Program in Liberal Medical Education.

Columbia University failed to report its admission statistics for the Class of 2013.

Cornell reported a 10-percent increase in the number of early decision applicants as 3,405 applications were reviewed in December. In the early decision cycle, Cornell admitted 1,249 students, the highest number of students to ever be granted admission early.

Dartmouth received Early Decision 1,550 applications, an increase of 8.47 percent over last year and the largest number of early applications ever.  Dartmouth accepted 401 early applicants to the Class of 2013.

Penn received 3,610 early decision applications, slightly down from last year’s 3,912. Early decision applications were down by eight percent this fall.

Continuous increases were seen at Yale, where the early application volume grew by 14%, albeit representing a smaller increase than last year’s 38%. Yale received 5,557 early applications this year for the class of 2013 from which the school accepted 742 students.

Stanford and MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received 5,019 (up from 3,937) early applications last year and accepted 540 for an acceptance rate of less than 11%. 

Stanford’s early application admission jumped 18%..  Stanford accepted less than 13 percent of its SCEA pool by admitting 689 out of 5,363 applicants. 

More Selective Schools

Duke reported an increase of 23% as 1,539 applied early from 1,247 in the prior year. This means that Duke finally recovered from its massive drop in early admissions in 2006.  In 2005, Duke had 1,499 applicants.   

Volume of Applications and Changes - Early Class 2013

Preliminary Results – Early Class 2013

Volume of Applications and Changes – Regular Applications Class 2013

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Because of Columbia’s failure to release its admission numbers for the Class of 2013, it is not possible to compare the total numbers for 2013 to last year’s.  However, for the seven remaining Ivy League schools, the total applications jumped from 164,805 to 176,738.

Brown attracted 24,900 applicants for admission into the class of 2013, the highest number in the University’s history and a 21 percent increase from last year’s 20,630 applications.

Continuing the University’s steady increase in applicants in recent years, Cornell received an all-time high of 34,192 applications for the Class of 2013, 1,119 more students applied this admissions year than last year, representing a 3 percent increase over the 33,073 applicants for the Class of 2012.

Dartmouth received a record 18,007 applications for the Class of 2013. The College intends to accept 1,800 applicants during the regular decision process, for a total class size of 2,200, Dartmouth expects an overall acceptance rate of 11 to 12 percent, the lowest in its history. Applications increased by nearly 9 percent over last year. Dartmouth has already accepted 401 students into the Class of 2013 through the early decision admissions program. Approximately 1,095 of those admitted are expected to matriculate in Sept. 2009.

A record-breaking number of more than 29,000 students have applied for spots in Harvard’s class of 2013, up about 5 percent from last year’s 27,462 applicants

Penn received slightly more regular decision applications for the class of 2013 than in past years. Penn received 19,179 regular decision applications, up slightly from last year’s 19,023. Early decision applications were down six percent this fall. Overall, Penn received 90 fewer applications than last year for a total of 22,845.

Princeton University for the fifth consecutive year has set a record for students applying for admission, receiving 21,869 applications for the class of 2013. Over the past six years, the University has experienced a 60 percent increase in applications. The number of applicants for the class of 2013 represents a 2 percent increase over last year’s record of 21,369 completed applications for the class of 2012, which had an applicant pool 6 percent larger than for the class of 2011. Applicants for that class were up 8 percent over the applicants for the class of 2010, whose applicant numbers represented a 6 percent increase over those for freshmen for the 2009 class.

Yale received a record 25,925 applications to the class of 2013, up from 22,813 total applications last year. Yale accepted nearly 150 fewer early applicants than last year, despite a record high number of early applications.  The number of applicants increased by 13.6 percent since last year, when they increased 16.6 percent from the year before. Of the applicants, 5,557 applied under Yale’s early action single decision program, while 20,368 applied regular decision.

Stanford and MIT

MIT accepted 10.7 percent of early applicants this year, in what may be the most competitive admissions season yet. Out of 5019 applications, 540 students were offered early admission. Compared to last year, the early action pool grew by 28 percent, though roughly the same number of students were accepted. MIT received about 15,600 applications, a significant increase over the 13,396 regular applications last year.

Stanford< received 30,349 regular applications, up 20 percent from last year.

More Selective Schools

Applications for undergraduate admission to the University of Chicago increased this year to  13,280 applications, about a seven-percent increase from the 12,409 applications last year. The increase is a result of increased applications for regular admission. Applications for early admission, by contrast, decreased by 15 percent from last year’s record high. Of the 3,795 applications for early admission, 1,146 students were sent acceptance letters for an early acceptance rate similar to the previous year’s acceptance rate of 27.8 percent.

Duke University has received more than 23,750 applications for admission to the Class of 2013, the largest number in school history and a nearly 17 percent increase over the previous record set last year. This year’s jump of 3,400 applicants over last year is the largest increase on record for Duke. Last year, 20,352 students sought admission to Duke. The prior year, 19,206 applications were received, which at the time was the second highest total in school history.

Although Northwestern experienced a 54 percent spike in applications over the past three years, this year’s pool is only expected to be 3 percent to 4 percent higher than last year’s total of 25,013 applicants.  The Office of Undergraduate Admission reported that 25,385 students had applied.

Notre Dame received the second-highest number of applications in history, with about 14,000 applications.  The Admissions Office will be reviewing the regular action applications through March, but they have admitted 1,733 students early action, 200 more students than were admitted under early action last year.

Exceeding last year’s count of over 9,700 applicants, Rice University broke records again, attracting more than 10,000 applications this year for the first time in its history. For the class of 2013, Rice received 720 applications for Early Decision, compared to 661 applications in 2007 and 517 applications in 2006. Of the 720 applications, Rice accepted about 200 students. Not only did Rice experience a 5.5 percent increase in the number of ED applications, which increased for the second year in a row, but also a nearly 12 percent increase in applications in the overall applicant pool with 10,818 applications. Last year Rice filled about 26 percent of its 2008- ‘09 entering freshman class through Early Decision.

The Tufts University Office of Undergraduate Admissions admitted 347 Early Decision I applicants last month, as it began to select the Class of 2013. The university accepted over 12 percent more students than it did during this round of applications last year, despite choosing from a similarly sized pool.  Tufts expects a total of 15,010 Regular Decision applicants, down four percent from last year’s record high of 15,641.”

More than 35,000 accomplished high school seniors from all 50 states and nearly 100 countries have applied for admission to the fall 2009 entering class of USC. Last year USC received 35,899 applications for 2,600 places in the fall 2008 freshman class, representing the highest number of applications ever received at the university. The freshman admission rate was approximately 22 percent.

The University of Virginia, who like Harvard eliminated early admission two years ago, received 21,750 applications for 3,170 places in the fall’s entering undergraduate class, up 17 percent from last year.

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Applications Changes - Class of 2013 versus Class 2012

Admission Statistics for Ivy League & Other Top Colleges

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