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The Ivy League admissions numbers are starting to trickle out

Apr 1, 2015, 00:36 IST

Top high school students from around the world just found out whether they will attend one of the eight prestigious Ivy League universities next year.

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Admissions decisions don't come out until 5 p.m., but Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania have already released their admissions data.

Columbia University accepted 2,228 from a pool of 36,250 applications, according to a university press release, for a 6.1% acceptance rate - a record low for the school. Last year, Columbia admitted 6.94% of applicants.

UPenn accepted 3,697 from 37,267 applicants - the largest in the University's history - according to a university press release. The admissions rate for the Class of 2019 stayed the same as last year, at 9.9%.

We will continue to update this post as more information becomes available.

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Jishai Evers at dadaviz put together this great chart showing how many students applied to each Ivy League university, based on numbers compiled by Business Insider:

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