RANKED: Ivy League universities from most to least selective
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While tens of thousands of potential students apply to each Ivy League university every year, only a handful get accepted. Harvard University has the lowest admissions rate of all the Ivies, only taking 5.9% of students last year for its current freshman class.
Here's how many students got accepted to each Ivy League school last year:
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- Harvard University - 5.9%
- Yale University - 6.26%
- Columbia University - 6.94%
- Princeton University - 7.28%
- Brown University - 9.2%
- University of Pennsylvania - 9.9%
- Dartmouth College - 11.5%
- Cornell University - 14%
However, Stanford University - which is not in the Ivy League - remains the most selective university in America, with a 5.05% admissions rate for the Class of 2019.
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