Admission results for the Class of 2014 are arriving.
Duke University offered admission this year to 3,972, or 15% of applicants, down from 18% last year.
Stanford University admitted 2,300 or 7.2%
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia admitted 14% of nearly 27,000 applicants.
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, admitted 18% of a record 36,337 applicants.
The University of Chicago offered admission to 3,560, or 18% of 19,370 applicants. 27% of applicants were admitted to the Class of 2013.
MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts admitted 9.7% of 16,632 applicants. Last year MIT admitted 11%.
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire received 18,778 applications for the Class of 2014 and admitted 11.5%.
Northwestern University in Illinois, accepted 23% of applicants well below the 27% accepted last year.
