Rejected from your top-choice college? Well, you can take some comfort in the fact that you’re definitely not alone. This week, colleges began to release their acceptance rates for the class of 2015 – and the numbers aren’t pretty.
We already knew that the number of college applicants made records earlier this year, and now top-tier schools are accepting smaller percentages of applicants than ever.
Harvard University, perennially one of the toughest schools to get into, accepted only 6.2 percent of its record 35,000 applicants. Ouch.
Other extra-selective schools include Columbia, Stanford, Yale and Princeton, whose acceptance rates all hover around the seven-to-eight percent range.
Class of 2016, if you’ve got your sights set on an Ivy, you might want to start perfecting your essays now.
