Editing Ivy League (section)

===Undergraduate admissions===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; float:left; margin-right:2em"
|+ Admission statistics (Class of 2028)
! !! Applicants !! Admission rates
|-
| '''Brown'''
| 48,898
| 5.2%<ref name="Bergman-2021">{{Cite web |last=Bergman |date=2024-03-10 |title=Class of 2028 Admission Rates |url=https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/ |access-date= |website=Ivywise |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| '''Columbia'''
| 60,248
| 3.9%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Cornell'''
| 61,178
| 8.4%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Dartmouth'''
| 31,656
| 5.3%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Harvard'''
| 54,008
| 3.7%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Penn'''
| 65,236
| 5.4%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Princeton'''
| 39,644
| 4.6%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|-
| '''Yale'''
| 57,517
| 3.9%<ref name="Bergman-2021" />
|}
[[File:Cannon Green and Nassau Hall, Princeton University.jpg|thumb|[[Nassau Hall]] (1756) at Princeton ]]
The Ivy League schools are highly selective, with seven out of the eight universities reporting undergraduate acceptance rates below 6%. Admitted students come from around the world, although those from the [[Northeastern United States]] make up a significant proportion of students.<ref>{{cite news|last=Waldman|first=Peter|date=September 4, 2014|title=How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-03/college-consultant-thinktank-guarantees-admission-for-hefty-price|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904213820/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-03/college-consultant-thinktank-guarantees-admission-for-hefty-price|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2014|work=Bloomberg.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=National University Rankings|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521210513/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities|archive-date=May 21, 2011|access-date=May 11, 2011|publisher=U.S. News & World Report LP}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Annicchiarico|first1=Francesca|last2=Weinstock|first2=Samuel Y.|date=September 3, 2013|title=Freshman Survey Part I: Meet Harvard's Class of 2017|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/3/freshmen-employment-demographics-geography/?page=2|work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=October 11, 2014|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816112142/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/3/freshmen-employment-demographics-geography/?page=2|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021, all eight Ivy League schools recorded record high numbers of applications and record low acceptance rates.<ref name="Kubzansky-2021">{{Cite web |last=Kubzansky |first=Will |date=2021-04-06 |title=Brown admits record-low 5.4 percent of applicants to the class of 2025 |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/04/06/brown-admits-record-low-5-4-percent-applicants-class-2025/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406235148/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/04/06/brown-admits-record-low-5-4-percent-applicants-class-2025/ |archive-date=April 6, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Diverse group of admitted students navigated virtual admission in most competitive year on record|url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2021/04/diverse-group-of-admitted-students-navigated-virtual-admission-in-most-competitive-year-on-record|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Dartmouth|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414033559/https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2021/04/diverse-group-of-admitted-students-navigated-virtual-admission-in-most-competitive-year-on-record|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The Harvard Crimson">{{Cite web |title=Harvard College Accepts Record-Low 3.43% of Applicants to Class of 2025 |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/7/harvard-admissions-2025/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412184845/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/7/harvard-admissions-2025/ |archive-date=April 12, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref><ref name="Tilitei">{{Cite web |last=Tilitei |first=Leanna |title=Penn accepts record-low 5.68% of applicants to the Class of 2025 |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317060620/https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate |archive-date=March 17, 2022 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=www.thedp.com |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="Davidson-2021">{{Cite news |last=Davidson |first=Amelia |date=April 6, 2021 |title=Yale's acceptance rate drops to 4.62 percent amid record applicant pool |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/04/06/yales-acceptance-rate-drops-to-4-62-percent-amid-record-applicant-pool/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113021049/https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/cds_2017-2018.pdf |archive-date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=2021-04-14 |newspaper=Yale Daily News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-08|title=Thousands of Applications and 49 States Later, Cornell Admits its Class of 2025|url=https://cornellsun.com/2021/04/08/thousands-of-applications-and-49-states-later-cornell-admits-its-class-of-2025/|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Cornell Daily Sun|language=en-US|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414033549/https://cornellsun.com/2021/04/08/thousands-of-applications-and-49-states-later-cornell-admits-its-class-of-2025/|url-status=live}}</ref> Year-over-year increases in the number of applicants ranged from 14.5% at Princeton to 51% at Columbia.<ref name="The Princetonian">{{Cite web |title=Princeton admits record-low 3.98% of applicants in historic application cycle |url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/04/princeton-college-admissions-class-of-2025-ivy-league |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414033549/https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/04/princeton-college-admissions-class-of-2025-ivy-league |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=The Princetonian}}</ref><ref name="Columbia Daily Spectator">{{Cite web |title=Columbia acceptance rate drops to record low 3.7 percent after 51 percent spike in applications |url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/07/columbia-acceptance-rate-drops-to-record-low-37-percent-after-51-percent-spike-in-applications/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514030131/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/07/columbia-acceptance-rate-drops-to-record-low-37-percent-after-51-percent-spike-in-applications/ |archive-date=May 14, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref>

There have been arguments that Ivy League schools discriminate against Asian-American candidates. For example, in August 2020, the U.S. [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] argued that Yale University discriminated against Asian-American candidates on the basis of their race, a charge the university denied.<ref name="CNN">{{Cite web|author=David Shortell and Taylor Romine|title=Justice Department accuses Yale of discriminating against Asian American and White applicants|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/justice-department-yale-discrimination/index.html|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=CNN|date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=August 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814000151/https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/justice-department-yale-discrimination/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Harvard faced a similar challenge from [[Students for Fair Admissions]], which ultimately won its [[Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard|case]] in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023, leading to the end of affirmative action in college admissions.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Supreme Court guts affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref>