“Ivy Day,” Early Decision, Student Marketing, and Declining Acceptance Rates

04/24/2017
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(Dartmouth Review) by Devon Kurtz. Ivy Day – for any unknowing readers – is the name of the day when all eight Ivy League institutions release their decisions, and it reminds me of a quote from Apocalypse Now, but slightly adjusted: “I love the smell of [incinerated childhood dreams] in the morning…” Every year, tens […]

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Ivy League admission letters just went out — here are the acceptance rates for the class of 2021

04/01/2017
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(Business Insider) by Abby Jackson. At 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of anxious high schoolers found out if they were accepted or rejected into the Ivy League. Here’s what we know about who got in: Brown University accepted 2,722 from 32,724 applicants, according to a school representative. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 8.3%. Last year, Brown accepted 2,919 of 32,390 applicants, […]

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