With applications at record levels to many of America’s best colleges, The Daily Beast crunched the numbers at 28 top schools to find projected admission rates. Kristina Dell on Harvard’s low rate and more.
Ivy LeagueHarvard
Columbia
Yale
Princeton
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Brown
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Dartmouth
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University of Pennsylvania
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Cornell
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State SchoolsUniversity of California, Berkeley
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University of California, Los Angeles
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University of Virginia
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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William & Mary
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University of California, San Diego
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Georgia Institute of Technology
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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University of Washington
Private Liberal Arts SchoolsAmherst College
Pomona
Claremont-McKenna
Swarthmore
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Bowdoin
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Williams
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Middlebury
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Washington & Lee
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