Below is a list of the “Ivy League” colleges ranked by acceptance rate for incoming freshman using the most recent data available, which means the Class of 2024 (which began in the fall of 2020) in most cases:
- Brown University – 6.9% (2533 accepted for fall 2020 out of 36,794 applications)
- Columbia University – 6.1% (2465 accepted for fall 2020 out of 40,084 applications)
- Cornell University – 10.9% (5330 accepted for fall 2019 out of 49,114 applications)
- Dartmouth College – 8.8% (1881 accepted for fall 2020 out of 21,394 applications)
- Harvard University – 4.9% (1980 accepted for fall 2020 out of 40,248 applications)
- University of Pennsylvania – 8.1% (3404 accepted for fall 2020 out of 42,205 applications)
- Princeton University – 5.6% (1823 accepted for fall 2020 out of 32,836 applications)
- Yale University – 6.5% (2304 accepted for fall 2020 out of 35,220 applications)
Based on those figures, about 7.1% of applications to an Ivy League school are accepted. (21,720 accepted out of 297,895 applications)