뉴욕타임즈 기사 : Harvard, Yale and Other Ivy League Schools Are More Selective This Year

 

 

 

 

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Harvard, Yale and Other Ivy League Schools Are More Selective This Year

By TANYA CALDWELL

As high school seniors learn the results of their college applications on Thursday, we’ve been collecting admissions figures from colleges across the country.

Many of you may have already received your admissions decisions. There are others, however, who are going online and checking their mailboxes to hear the final word from those remaining institutions, including the Ivy League schools, which are all announcing their decisions Thursday night.

Here’s some of what we know about the schools that are reporting:

Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools were more selective in their admissions this year, though many were choosing from a smaller pool of applicants.

Harvard admitted 2,032 students this year, or 5.9 percent of its 34,302 applicants, officials said. (Last year, Harvard admitted 6.17 percent of its 34,950 applicants.) This year’s applicant pool included 3,800 students who were ranked first in their high school classes.

Yale was also more selective this year. Its acceptance rate, 6.82 percent, was lower than the 7.35 percent admitted last year. Yale admitted 1,975 of its 28,974 applicants this year. Last year, the pool was smaller, with 27,282 students. An additional 1,001 students are on this year’s waitlist. (If you’ve been waitlisted, here’s a statistic: of the 996 waitlisted last year, Yale eventually accepted 103 of them.)

At Princeton, the acceptance rate was 7.86 percent, a record low for the school. It offered admission to 2,095 students of the 26,664 who applied. Princeton officials called its applicant pool the second-largest in the university’s history.

At Columbia, fewer students applied, but a higher percentage of applicants were accepted. This year, 2,363 students of the 31,851 applicants were accepted at the university. This amounts to a 7.4 percent acceptance rate, compared to last year’s 6.93 percent rate.

As regular readers of this blog know, most of the estimated 2,000 four-year colleges in this country accept almost everyone who applies. one need not attend a highly selective school to receive a stellar education. But we know that the eight colleges of the Ivy League released their admissions decisions earlier this evening, so we thought we’d share news on their overall statistics — at least so individual applicants can put their own decisions in perspective. We’ve also been surveying a range of other colleges and universities on their admissions statistics. We will be posting that data soon.

We’re very interested to hear your reactions, reflections and words of wisdom in Thursday night’s communal kitchen table, which we posted earlier. Please join today’s discussion about the admissions decisions.