<p>is Dartmouth the least selective, or would that be Cornell? I think Cornell, but its also much bigger, so if we rule that out would it be D?</p>
<p>Actually, if you go by average SAT score, Dartmouth is close behind Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but ahead of every other Ivy. Its percent admitted is less than 15 percent overall and, for example, Penn and Cornell. And Columbia has a ton of NY kids bring up the number of applicants.I was admitted into Columbia and Cornell but got waitlisted at Dmouth (might take an off year and apply as a freshman ED to dartmouth next year) so at least for me, Dartmouth was the most selective.</p>
<p>this is a terrible question to ask on the Dartmouth forum, btw.</p>
<p>And i think as far as "selectivity" goes, you can make many arguments. Dartmouth's application process is unique from those of the other Ivies, and because its smaller and more LACish than the other schools, it tends to attract a certain type of applicant and discourages certain other kinds.</p>
<p>Class of 2010 acceptance rates:</p>
<p>Harvard 9%
Princeton 10%
Yale 10%
Columbia 12%
Brown 14%
Dartmouth 15%
Penn 21%
Cornell 27%</p>
<p>if that helps.</p>
<p>xine... not quite right.
yale 8.6%
harvard 9.3%
columbia (college) 9.6%
princeton 10.2 %
brown 14%
dartmouth 15.4%
penn 17.7%
cornell 24.7%</p>
<p>Its much deeper than acceptance rate. If I had to rate them out of ten here's what I think.</p>
<p>10 Harvard
9.7 Yale
9.4 Princeton
8.6 Columbia
8.5 Dartmouth
8.4 Brown
8.3 Penn
7.5 Cornell</p>
<p>The middle schools (Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Penn) have institutional self interests. Columbia is much harder from the tri-state area than the rest of the country, Dartmouth loves the SAT + minorities/ diversity while Penn loves top 10%, etc. Brown will admit athletes that Dartmouth wouldn't even look at. So its hard to rank the middle schools.</p>
<p>Cornell is clearly the easiest.</p>
<p>If you are coming from NY,MA or CA most of the ivies are going to be tough to get into because you have a hugh competitive field of applicants The largest group of dartmouth students are from NYs with most of them coming from NYC schools followed by Westchester County & LI.</p>
<p>NYC admissions... its a jungle out here.</p>
<p>these stats are only one indicator, however. If we could (somehow) take out all the apps to H, Y, & P which were just a waste of the $75 application fee, thier stats would change dramatically. (One kid in our HS applied to H with the hopes of winning the lottery -- he was barely top 10%.)</p>
<p>Moreover, Hanover is the most rural Ivy -- Ithaca is a metroplis in comparison -- so self-selection plays a big role in the Other Five.</p>
<p>At a certain point, it's honestly just a crapshoot. I got into Dartmouth this year and was rejected from Cornell. I also got onto the waiting lists of Harvard, Pton and Columbia. No percentages really could have predicted something like that.</p>
<p>yeah...ditto here...waitlisted Harvard, rejected Yale (SCEA deferred), accepted UPenn/Dartmouth...</p>