Rank the following in terms of admissions difficulty.

Applying to College
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<p>Even though the differences might be small, based on anecdotal evidence, rank the following in terms of admissions difficulty, with #1 being the hardest and #13 being the easiest.</p>

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Penn (Wharton), Penn CAS, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, MIT, Caltech</p>

<p>As a fellow applicant, I'm just curious.</p>

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<p>Personally, I would say: Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Stanford, Duke, Penn CAS, Penn Wharton, Cornell</p>

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<p>These schools are all very close and change year to year. What we’re looking at here is from 6-18 percent, but eliminating the extremes of the Cornell land grant schools, pretty much 6-15 percent and likely to go down this year. Truly crazy!</p>

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<p>^^Wharton is tougher to get in to than Penn CAS</p>

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<p>and stanford should be a little higher</p>

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<p>Yeah, Stanford had the second lowest admissions rate last year didn’t they?</p>

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<p>I would say: Yale, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn Wharton, Penn CAS, Cornell
Just my 2 cents :)</p>

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<p>^ Not a fan of CalTech?</p>

<p>I’m not at all into this enough to have any true idea of selectivity but just from name recognition:</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Columbia
Penn (Wharton)
Penn CAS
Dartmouth
Brown
Duke
Cornell</p>

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<p>Admissions difficulty for undergrad,</p>

<p>1) Has to be Yale, with an SCEA pool of all HYP hopefuls and a RD rate of 5.
2) Harvard, 7%.
3) Princeton 8.18%, but slightly more self-selective applicants.
4) Stanford 7.5%
5) Penn (Wharton), they get to have their pick of all the soon-to-be Ivy League finance golden-poos.
6) Brown, 9.35%, the applicant pool is large, this University IMO has the most random process ever. It’s very hard to see on paper why they make the decisions they make.
7) Columbia 9.44%, NYC, most desired school my most artists/musicians.
8) MIT and Caltech, not as selective as others because their applicant pool is extremely self-selective. It is possible to be nearly assured admission (provided that you do truly exceptional things with engineering) so admissions is slightly less of a crapshoot if you are a deserving candidate.
9) Dartmouth, 12% small class size and location puts off a lot of applicants, so a slightly smaller pool, but lesser spaces to compete for as well.<br>
10) Duke 15%, best school in the south, sports. Attracts a lot of applicants.
11) Penn (non Wharton), 15%, this might deserve to be above Duke actually, but that is more because of the Ivy tag, region than anything else.
12) Cornell 18%, not as selective as the others. Still quite selective. Large availability of spaces. Yale sent out 1940 acceptances, Cornell sent out 6600, not quite the same league of selectivity</p>

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<p>^Harvard, gets many applicants from kids who just apply there because its “Harvard”, trying to see if they can get in, when they have a near 0% chance. Thats why I think getting into Harvard is easier than getting into Yale. ^I agree with the above poster on his comments about MIT/Cal Tech.</p>

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<p>Based on anecdotal evidence and what I’ve seen on CC, I would think it’s this: MIT, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, Penn (Wharton), Columbia, Brown, Penn CAS, Dartmouth, Duke, Cornell.</p>

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<p>Harvard
Yale/Stanford/Princeton
Penn (Wharton)
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn CAS
Duke
Cornell </p>

<p>these two are not really comparable… they represent a specialized subset of college applicants.</p>

<p>Caltech
MIT</p>