Princeton University announced today it admitted 1,894 students to the Class of 2020.  

Applications totaled 29,303, resulting in an overall admission rate of 6.5 percent.  An additional 1,237 candidates were offered a place on the waitlist.

The target size for the class is anticipated to be 1,308 students.

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Columbia University announced today it admitted 2,193 applicants to the Class of 2020.

A total of 36,292 applications were received, resulting in an overall admit rate of 6.0 percent.

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Cornell admitted 6,277 applicants to the Class of 2020.  

A total of 44,966 applications were received this year, resulting in an overall admit rate of 14 percent. An additional 4,572 students were offered a place on the waitlist.

The targeted size of the Class of 2020 is 3,275.   

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The University of Pennsylvania announced today that it admitted 3,661 applicants to the Class of 2020.  

A totla of 38,918 applications were received, a record, resulting in an overall admit rate of 9.4 percent.

The targeted size of the Class of 2020 is 2,445 students.

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Cornell accepted 27.4 percent of applicants to the Class of 2020 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants grew 7 percent to 4,833 this year.

Of the remaining applicant pool, 23.6 percent were deferred to regular decision and 50 percent were denied admission.   

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The University of Pennsylvania admitted 1,335 early decision applicants to the Class of 2020.  

Early decision applications rose 5% from the previous year to 5,762, but the admission rate remained essentially unchanged at 24%.

This year's early admittees are expected to comprise 54% of this year's targeted class of 2,445 students.

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Columbia University announced it received 3,520 early decision applications for the Class of 2020, up 4.4 percent from the previous year.  The actual admission results were not provided.  

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For those of you curious about how admission decisions are made, here's an interesting article from Business Insider on the Ivy League admissions process. Excerpted from a talk given by Nelson Urena, a former admissions officer at Cornell University, it outlines the typical steps that are taken from the time the application is submitted to the time the decision is rendered.