The Thoughtful College Search

JANUARY 27, 2025

(Originally published in Inside Higher Ed on January 27, 2025) Are many of the ills that plague American society caused by Ivy League admission policies? That is the premise of David Brooks cover story for the December issue of The Atlantic , How the Ivy League Broke America. Those examples seem cherry-picked.

Ivy League 40

Ivy League SAT Standardized Testing Policies 40

Ivy Coach

MARCH 30, 2023

Dartmouth College Waitlist Acceptance Rate The below is Dartmouth College’s waitlist data for the Class of 2026 through 2008, covering 19 years of waitlist statistics for the College on the Hill. Dartmouth Waitlist Acceptance Rates and Statistics Dartmouth College Class Year … Read More Ivy Coach

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Waitlist Acceptance Ivy League 130

Admissions Village

JULY 22, 2024

Recently an article came out in Forbes which explained that all colleges, including the Ivy League, will get slightly easier to get into because of the impending demographic cliff. The move to test-optional admissions for many colleges has also contributed to increased uncertainty about where a student will be accepted.

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Loans Ivy League Accommodations International Students 186

Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 5, 2024

We’re collecting early acceptance rate data at selective schools and providing insight and analysis of our own. percent acceptance rate is the lowest in over two decades. percent acceptance rate is the lowest since Yale adopted its current non-binding early admissions model, which first went into effect for the class of 2008.

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Acceptance Ivy League Financial Aid Early Admission 59

Top Tier Admissions

JULY 19, 2023

LEGACY VS. NON-LEGACY ACCEPTANCE RATES Twenty years ago, legacy applicants to the Ivy League generally saw rates of admission that were 3-4 times greater than the overall rate of admission. In the early 2000s, Harvard accepted a mere 11 percent of its total applicants, but admitted 40 percent of its legacy applicants.

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Admissions Ivy League Financial Aid Tuition 97

BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, one study found "no statistically significant evidence of a casual relationship between legacy preference policies and total alumni giving among top universities" after evaluating data between 1998 and 2008. Recent rumblings at the University of Pennsylvania suggest the Ivy League school is inching away from legacy preferences.

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Admissions Ivy League Minor Policies 98

Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 31, 2024

the Class of 2028 early admissions results continue an ongoing trend in college admissions—higher application volumes (in most cases) and lower acceptance rates. Record-Low Acceptance Rates: Many universities experienced record-low acceptance rates in their early decision rounds, reflecting an increasingly competitive admissions landscape.

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Early Admission Ivy League Admissions Financial Aid 52