<p>Here is a Cornell article that references their class of 2014 acceptance rate as well as some other 2014 Ivys with regard to ED, RD and recrutied atheletes.</p>
<p>Class</a> of 2014 Experiences Record Low Acceptance Rates | The Cornell Daily Sun</p>
<p>The URL in OP doesn’t work. Here is the content from Cornell Daily Sun newspaper :</p>
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<p>With the Class of 2014, the University continued to increase the academic selectivity and diversity of its student body. After surviving the most competitive admissions cycle in its history, on Apr. 1, 5,502 Cornell hopefuls received invitations for regular admission to the University out of an all-time high of 36,337 applicants. The number of applications that the University received represents a 6-percent increase from the Class of 2013 and a 10-percent jump from that of the Class of 2012. The number appears even more significant when compared to the Class of 2005, which saw 24,452 applications.</p>
<p>The 5,502 students accepted through regular decision join the 1,176 admitted early, bringing the total number of accepted students to 6,678 this year. In all, the University admitted 18.4 percent of applicants, continuing the decline in admission rates seen in recent years. By contrast, the class of 2007 saw 31 percent of applicants accepted.</p>
<p>The Class of 2014 was also subject to much greater academic scrutiny, with the average SAT score rising, as it has in recent years. The admitted class has mean 710 verbal and 740 math SAT scores. By comparison, for the Class of 2012, the average verbal score was 700, while the average math score was 720.</p>
<p>Of the pool of admitted students, 50 percent are female and 50 percent are male, as was the case at Princeton and Penn this year, according to their admissions offices. However, at other peer institutions, the ratio between sexes is not perfectly balanced. According to The Harvard Crimson, the accepted class to Harvard College is 52.4 percent male and 47.6 percent female.</p>
<p>The prospective freshmen hail from all 50 states, as well as D.C., Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, and from 79 countries. China, Canada andSouth Korea lead international acceptances to this fall’s entering class.</p>
<p>In addition, 256 recruited athletes and 733 legacies are part of the other special groups of students welcomed to the Class of 2014.</p>
<p>Of the remaining applicants, 2,563 were placed on a waiting list — compared to last year’s 3,311 — while 24, 977 were denied admission.</p>
<p>Doris Davis, associate provist of admissions and enrollment, stated that, as of Apr. 8, 2,135 of the accepted students “had completed a financial aid application and had been reviewed for need-based aid.”</p>
<p>According to Davis, 563 of these students have already received enhanced financial aid packages under the University’s new financial aid initiative released in 2008. The initiative deems students from special groups as “enrollment priorities” and, in order to attract them to the University, provides them with higher quality financial aid packages.</p>
<p>Davis said that she “expects this number to change since there are quite a few admitted students who have not yet completed their financial aid application.” Last year, 10 percent of admitted students benefited from this financial aid program.</p>
<p>Other Ivy League schools also saw drops in their acceptance rates.</p>
<p>According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard accepted an all-time low of 6.9 percent of its applicants, a slight drop from the 7 percent that were accepted last year. Brown’s admission rate dropped from 10.8 percent last year to 9.3 percent, The Brown Daily Herald reported. </p>
<p>The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that, after an increase in acceptance rate last year, Penn’s percentage of admitted students to the Class of 2014 dropped to 14.2. Similarly, at Princeton, after last year’s admission rate increase to 9.79 percent, this year only 8.18 percent of applicants were accepted, according to The Daily Princetonian. According to The Columbia Spectator, admissions between Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science resulted in a combined acceptance rate of 9.16 percent.</p>
<p>In a report on admissions for the Class of 2014 released to The Sun, Davis said that she was quite impressed with the quality of the applicants to the University, adding that “it was an amazing year.”</p>
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<p>While at UPenn–I noted that the Admissions officer said that because so many kids were applying to so many schools–she didn’;t want te app fee to keep kids from applying–so
anyone who felt the app fee was a hardship should check fee-waiver for the app fee.</p>
<p>Why is this brilliant? Because in doing so–UPenn will likely get far more apps next yr–and then the admits will be a smaller percentage…thereby raising its status as a selective school etc</p>