article_snippet.sent: Harvard only accepts 5.9 per cent of applicants - roughly 2,000 of the 34,000 submissions Harvard, MIT and Princeton receive.
article_snippet.sent: Yale accepts 6.3 per cent of the 30,000 students who apply, and Columbia only 6.9 per cent of 32,000.
article_snippet.sent: Cornell has the highest acceptance rate of the eight Ivies - a minuscule 14 per cent of the 43,000 applicants.