In March 2018, the Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard University’s 4.59 percent acceptance rate for the class of 2022 was the lowest in Harvard’s centuries-old history, and it was the fourth straight year that the percentage had decreased.

            The previous year, the school accepted 2,037 of 39,506 applicants, for an acceptance rate of 5.2 percent.

            Harvard and the seven other Ivy League schools notified regular-decision Class of 2022 applicants of their admission decisions. According to the Wall Street Journal, seven of the eight posted record-high application numbers — and seven of the eight also posted record-low admission rates. The other — Yale — reportedly tied its lowest-ever rate. Per the Journal:

• Brown: 7.2 percent; admitted 2,566 of 35,438
• Columbia: 5.5 percent; admitted 2,214 of 40,203
• Cornell: 10.3 percent; admitted 5,288 of 51,328
• Dartmouth: 8.7 percent; admitted 1,925 of 22,033
• Harvard: 4.6 percent; admitted 1,962 of 42,749
• Penn: 8.4 percent; admitted 3,731 of 44,491

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