Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


1

Sorry, Recession Won't Get You Into Harvard

Top schools see no application shortage despite economy

Share

(Newser) – Sure, a lot of people are cash-strapped, but don’t get your hopes up that the recession will boost your shot at an Ivy League school. Harvard got a record number of applications this year—29,112, a 6% jump from last year. And pricey universities like Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, and Stanford all saw application numbers soar, the New York Times reports. Still, some top smaller schools did see a decline in applications.

Williams College applications dropped 20% from the previous year, Middlebury applications fell almost 12%, and Amherst applications about 1%. But the overall landscape is tough to pigeonhole, the Times notes: Slightly more than half the schools that accept the shared Common Application received more applications this year than they did last year, while slightly less than half received fewer.

Schools like Princeton haven't seen applications drop despite the recession.
Schools like Princeton haven't seen applications drop despite the recession.   (Shutterstock)
The door to the Ivies is still tough to open.
The door to the Ivies is still tough to open.   (Shutterstock)
Applicants' chances at a top school like Harvard haven't gotten better despite the recession.
Applicants' chances at a top school like Harvard haven't gotten better despite the recession.   (Shutterstock)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.24.09
Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
1 comment
VIEWING:
 
radnip
Apr 1, 09 5:22 AM CDT
Legacy will still give you a leg up though. Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
0
LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

22 Stories

(Newser) - Harvard and Yale remain the richest schools in the US, but both are getting a lesson in economics. The endowments of the Ivy Leaguer shrank by about 30% over the last year thanks to risky investments, reports Bloomberg. Harvard's fell $11 billion to $26 billion and Yale's dropped $7 billion... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Ivy League • Harvard • colleges and universities • endowment • Yale

(Newser) - The US Military Academy tops the new Forbes list of top colleges, leapfrogging five places to bump Princeton out of the top spot. In the second annual ranking, another service academy, the Air Force's, lands in seventh place on a list that places schools according to "the quality of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • college • Caltech • Wellesley • West Point • Harvard University • US Military Academy • California Institute of Technology • Williams College • Wellesley College • US Air Force Academy • Amherst College

(Newser) - The Ivy League has a reputation for excellence in all things, but the consignment of its sports programs—particularly the more visible ones like football and basketball—to college athletics’ second tier has alumni clamoring for change, the Wall Street Journal reports. Academic standards limit the pool of top student-athletes... More »

MORE ABOUT:
NCAA • NCAA basketball • Columbia University • Ivy League • NCAA football • Dartmouth • Cornell University • Harvard • Princeton • Brown University • Penn • Yale • NCAA hockey • Lane MacDonald • Marcellus Wiley

22 Stories


It's OK: 'where you go doesn't matter'
Forbes


US 
TwitterFollow @NewserUS on Twitter

 
education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • Stanford University • college • Harvard • Dartmouth College • colleges and universities • Middlebury College • Common Application

from our news partners