Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Acceptance rates decline across the Ancient Eight

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Yale may have reported a record-low 8.3-percent acceptance rate for the class of 2012 on Monday, but officials in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are not the only ones announcing a lower figure than last year: So far, every Ivy League school that has released admissions data has recorded its lowest admit rates ever, owing in large part to the unusually high influx of applications this year.

Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia and Stanford universities and Dartmouth College have each announced over the past two days that the percentages of students admitted for the class of 2012...

#1 By Imsorry 1:25p.m. on April 2, 2008

Im sorry I didnt realize Stanford was part of the Ancient Eight.

#2 By (Anonymous) 7:55p.m. on April 2, 2008

stanford competes with the ivy league for applicants so i would consider them a peer institution....actually probably more peers with HYP than the other ivys.

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