The class of 2021 is shattering Ivy League admissions records

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It’s admissions season — and this one is one like no other.

College application numbers for a spot in the Class of 2021 defied expectations, setting records at many universities — including more than 102,000 applications at UCLA.

High school students have, of course, been on edge.

Schools have started rolled out acceptances — and rejections for the class of 2021. Competition this year was fierce, as nearly Ivy League — and “Baby Ivy” — school reported skyrocketing numbers of applications.

Cornell University reported both record applications and acceptance rates. The university got more than 47,000 apps and said “congratulations” to a new low of 12.5%.

The University of Pennsylvania also smashed records this season. There were more than 40,000 applications, including both early and regular apps, and they admitted only 9.15%. The acceptance rate is the lowest in UPenn’s history.

Breaking even more records: Brown received their highest number of applications with 32,724 in their admissions inboxes. And they accepted a record low of 8.3%.

Over at Yale University, the school accepted the largest freshman class in its history — they accepted about 2,272. (Usually they admit about 2,000.) They got a record of 32,900 overall applicants — both early and regular decision applications — this time around and welcomed 6.9% overall.

There was also a record broken at Harvard University, which received over 39,000 apps this season. They accepted 5.2% of that pile, welcoming 2,056 to the Ivy League school.

Princeton University had its most selective admissions season, only accepting 6.1% of over 31,000 applications. That makes it 1,890 regular application acceptances for their Class of 2021.

At Columbia University, early applicants set a new record – these apps were up a whopping 16%. According to Business Insider, overall Columbia accepted 2,185 applicants from a pool size of 37,389, yielding an admissions rate of 5.8%.

Other elite schools are seeing similar trends.

Stanford University admissions was highly selective with a record amount of applications of 44,073 this year. They ended up accepting 4.65% of that application pool, making it the lowest rate in their history, campus paper Stanford Daily reported.

Only 7.3% of regular decision applicants to Duke University were accepted this year, a record low rate for the school. They accepted 2,255 high school students out of nearly 31,000 applicants.

The total pile, of both 34,000 regular and early applications, was a record for Duke. There was a higher acceptance rate of 24.5% in the early decision stack, making it Duke’s second most selective early season.

One outlier: Ivy Dartmouth College reported a lower number of applications, with 20,000 this year. The school still admitted a low 10.4% of the application pool for the lowest acceptance rate since 2013, according to campus newspaper The Dartmouth.