The HARDEST Schools To Get Into 2010 (PHOTOS)

The results are in: Harvard leads the pack of the most selective schools for the class of 2014, with an admissions rate of 6.9 percent -- down from 7 percent last year.

In Harvard's wake are Stanford, Yale and Princeton, all of which admitted less than nine percent of prospective students. Out of all the schools on our list, only Yale saw a decrease in applications from last year, of about a half a percent. Otherwise, this was another cutthroat year for applicants: Harvard and Stanford drew more than 30,000 applications each, and the number of students applying to Princeton, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania and Brown increased by up to 20 percent.

See the full list below.

• • • • • • • • • • • Harvard University Applied: 30,489 Accepted: 2,110 Percent Accepted: 6.92

Comments

[AngryLefty]

04:01 PM on 05/13/2010

What colleges admitted Palin? What are their acceptance rates?

[The Albany Kid]

01:03 AM on 04/30/2010

I'd like to know the acceptance rate at Apex Tech.

They can't call me to let me know, so I guess that I will have to call them.

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

06:22 PM on 04/28/2010

only one ACC school Duke is on this list... I've been told no by Maryland, NC State and Boston College and Maryland said no twice and its Maryland!?! Maybe I need to aim higher and go for a SEC school instead

[annieluc]

01:00 AM on 04/20/2010

Sarah "the Retardican" Palin went to 5 colleges in 6 years to get a 4-year degree.
So she managed to get admitted to 5 colleges… yes FIVE I said. So watevaaaa with Obama who only got admitted to 2 universities: Columbia and Harvard. You betcha!!

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

06:23 PM on 04/28/2010

what dose Palin or Obama have to do with this anyway? I bet you don't know the 1st College that Obama went too... do you?

[loki]

12:04 AM on 04/20/2010

Its almost a badge of shame to have an Ivy greed degree nowadays with all the corruption and crime ivy greed graduates are famous for.

[ixington]

05:45 PM on 04/25/2010

I think you have a serious issue here, judging from your multiple posts on the subject. I'm a graduate student at an "ivy greed" school because the program is top-ranked in the country. Dollar signs weren't a factor in the equation, just the science. Hell, they're top ranked, but only paying me $20K/year. If it was about greed, I would have enrolled at Stanford, who offered me $33K/year.

[financemajor]

05:25 PM on 05/07/2010

Which Ivy league school are you referring to when you are talking about crime? Lay, Ebbers, Madoff were all non-Ivy league grads.

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

12:04 AM on 04/19/2010

While not as rigorous as the Ivys, California universities are selective by default, thanks to almost unbearable funding reductions necessary to save the state from bankruptcy. As mentioned previously, we community college profs are witnessing 30 maximums in freshman composition courses ( 24 is the recommended max ), with wait lists limited to an additional 10, with about 10 more desperately wanting to be placed on the first wait list. If only we could determine who are the slackers before turning away students.....

[A dean89]

06:26 AM on 04/17/2010

So this means Cornell is kind a easy to get enroll??? By the way, is it true that Cornell is the easiest Ivy League instituition to be admitted and the worst among the all ivies???

Curious guy.

[governwell]

02:16 PM on 04/17/2010

Cornell is an anomaly with its public and private colleges. The public ones, albeit top-notch, have much higher acceptance rates than the private ones, and lower acceptance rates than the other Ivies. But the private colleges, e.g. Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, are easier to get into than Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, but every bit as hard to get into (and maybe harder) than Brown, Columbia, Penn, and Dartmouth.

As far as being "worst among all the Ivies, you're kind of splitting hairs. I went to Princeton's engineering school, but Cornell's engineering school is generally considered to be the top engineering school among all Ivies! As far as humanities, or anything else for that matter, I don't think it makes sense to say that Brown or Penn or any other Ivies have better or worse programs than Cornell. My girlfriend is getting her PhD in literature from Cornell, a program that's trained Toni Morrison, Pearl Buck, Vonnegut, Pynchon, etc. That's my 2c (or maybe 3c).

[A dean89]

11:12 PM on 04/17/2010

Oh i see, thanx because for me Cornell seems prestigious in terms of Arts and humnanities, the status for the "worst ivy" i've got it from some London based educational article. However, i still reckon Cornell as one of the best instituition around the world, never being ommited among the top 20 finest in the world.

Go Big Red Bears.

[njposter40]

11:46 PM on 04/19/2010

The Cornell Agricultural School is very easy to get into....they even accepted Keith Olbermann

[A dean89]

07:56 AM on 04/20/2010

oH YEAH, Ann Coulter went to study there too. But her opinions, style and candourness are very low class and ain't no clue that she went to Cornell.

[hswanson2]

07:52 PM on 04/20/2010

No one in Ag would argue with Cornell being in the top 10 in the country - few would argue top five - and a good case can be made for number 1.

[GravitonX]

10:43 AM on 04/15/2010

Then you join the real world and discover that most of what you learned in undergrad and graduate school was interesting trivia...

Oh, but it's fun to gossip about who's on top;)

[mamala4]

09:50 AM on 04/15/2010

Gee, none of the 6 schools Sarah Palin went to are on this list...but the schools our President attended are on the list...so how's the dummy marroony thing doin' for ya Sarah?

[jerryfromcalifornia]

02:20 AM on 04/14/2010

UCLA the finest school in Southern California Yea Bruins :-)
Palin will never speak here
jerry belair

[jackstpaul]

02:17 AM on 04/16/2010

UC San Diego generally ranks higher for advanced degrees.

[Professsor]

03:45 PM on 04/16/2010

No it's not. It's Cal Tech!

[tevis]

01:24 AM on 04/14/2010

University of Phoenix

[jukesgrrl]

03:11 PM on 04/19/2010

LOL!

[Rharte]

02:07 AM on 04/13/2010

Anyone know the acceptance rate for Devry?

[alexandracabot]

10:15 AM on 04/13/2010

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=acceptance+rate+devry

[farmerdave]

01:05 PM on 04/13/2010

infinity

great la-crosse team btw

[Rharte]

06:22 PM on 04/13/2010

LoL! Close enough. It's 92%

[jackstpaul]

06:32 PM on 04/12/2010

An issue of less significance decades ago is that so many people go on to get advanced degrees that their academic pedigree serives more from where they did the advanced degree than their undergrad.

Harvard undergrad with Univ of Miss PhD vs. Univ of Miss undergrad with a Harvard PhD. The latter has the more impressive pedigree.

[veritas88]

01:18 AM on 04/16/2010

it's pretty rare that a person with an undergrad degree from Harvard is going to choose to earn a PhD from a school like the U of Miss, (no offense to UofMiss).

[ladyvader]

01:31 AM on 04/16/2010

Normally they would attend one of the other Ivies. Usually Yale or Columbia.

[AirViceMarshalPark]

01:31 AM on 04/09/2010

Faber College is hard to get into if you don't know the words to "Louie, Louie".

I know and I'm not telling.

[realitytrumpsbull]

08:43 PM on 04/07/2010

Well, they don't say 'college is for rich ashpoles' for nothing...I hope that one or more of these pretentious institutions shuts down permanently, for lack of funding...and good riddance.

[FatherWolf]

01:47 AM on 04/10/2010

Is that what "they" say? Maybe 80 years ago.

BTW - all of these schools have multi-billion-dollar endowments. No chance of shutting down for lack of funding.

[jackstpaul]

06:34 PM on 04/12/2010

Pretentious? Let's see, you either didn't go to college at all or you went to one ranked #746. Insecure much?