Are Ivy schools Selective, Target or Safe?

In the first part of this series, we explained the idea of Selective/Target/Safe schools and looked at how many schools of each group are available in the US.

But let’s dig deeper and see where famous schools land. We will look at Ivy L schools and Forbs 500 schools. Let us know if you want an analysis of any other schools. In fact, all eight Ivy schools have an admission rate below 10%. Not surprisingly, they are selective schools!

School	2022 Acceptance rate
Yale University	5.31%
Harvard University	4.01%
Dartmouth College	6.17%
Princeton University	4.38%
Columbia University in the City of New York	4.13%
Cornell University	8.69%
University of Pennsylvania	5.87%
Brown University	5.51%

Disclaimer: This article is based on 2010-2022 CollegeScorecard data (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/).