Columbia just became more competitive than Yale
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Columbia accepted 2,228 students from a pool of 36,250 applications - a record-low 6.1% acceptance rate. In 2014, Columbia accepted 6.94% of applicants.
Yale's admissions rate, by contrast, rose from 6.26% to 6.49% for the Class of 2019. The Connecticut Ivy accepted 1,963 of 30,237 applicants this year. For years, Yale had held the second-lowest acceptance rate in the Ivy League.
Harvard University kept its standing as the most selective school in the Ivy League, with a 5.33% admissions rate for the Class of 2019.
Here are the admissions rates of all the Ivy League university for the Class of 2019, ranked from lowest to highest:
- Harvard University - 5.33%
- Columbia University - 6.1%
- Yale University - 6.49%
- Princeton University - 6.99%
- Brown University - 8.49%
- University of Pennsylvania - 9.9%
- Dartmouth College - 10.3%
- Cornell University - 14.9%
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