4/3/03 Harvard Crimson: "Class of 2007 Sets Records,"
The College announced yesterday that the Class of 2007 faced a record-low admissions rate of 9.8% and that a record-high percent of the 2,056 applicants admitted to the Class of 2007 are black. 10.2% of admitted students are black, up from 8.9%. Aside from this increase, ethnic representation remained fairly consistent with previous years. Asian-Americans comprised 16.2% of admitted students. Mexican-Americans comprised 3.6%, Puerto Ricans comprised 1.5% and Hispanic-Americans from other countries in Latin American and South America comprised 3.7%. American Indians comprised 1% of the admitted pool. Women comprised slightly more than 48% of admitted applicants. The Admissions Office received an unprecedented 20,986 applications this year, surpassing last years record number of 19,605.

3/21/03 MIT: "MIT Offers Students Spots in Class of 07,"
MIT offered admission to only 16% of its applicants for the Class of 2007, extending offers to 1,735 of the 10,547 students who applied. The mean SAT score for admitted students is 721 Verbal and 760 Math. 17% percent of admitted students are members of underrepresented minority groups.

4/11/03 The Daily Pennsylvanian: "Admission rates drop at Penn, Ivies,"
    Penn's overall acceptance rate, encompassing both the early and regular decision pools, reached an all-time low of 20.5% this year. Penn received 18,827 applications for the Class of 2007, and 3,858 students were offered admission. Last year's overall acceptance rate was only slightly higher, at 21.1%.
    This year, 1,510 minority students were accepted, down from 1,583 last year. Of these students, 17 are Native American and 278 are Hispanic while 346 are black, down from 353 last year. However, 45 black students were early decision applicants and have already committed to Penn.
    Of the 3,858 offers of admission, about 2,385 students may matriculate at Penn. This projected yield is slightly lower than last year's.

4/10/03 Princetonian: "Ivy admissions selectivity increases in record year,"
    The University received a record 15,725 applications for spots in the Class of 2007, and accepted 1,570 students. The acceptance rate of 9.9% is down this year from 10.8% last year. Of those U.S. citizens and permanent residents admitted, 34% of minority background, 10.5% are children of alumni and 7.1% are the first generation of their families to attend college.

3/28/03 Stanford Report: "Stanford offers admission to 2,250 for the Class of 2007," 
    2,250 students for the Class of 2007 have been admitted.  Only 12.1% of the almost 19,000 applicants were offered admission, compared to 12.7% for the class entering in the fall of 2002 and 12.6% for the class entering in 2001. 
    For the second year in a row, over half the admitted students are people of color: 13% are African American, 25% are Asian American, 11% are Mexican American, 3% are other Latino and 3% are Native American/ Native Hawaiian.  International students from more than 60 countries account for 6% of the admitted class, and an additional 2.5% are U.S. citizens attending 
schools overseas. 

4/3/03 Yale Daily News: "Yale admits 1,458 regular decision applicants,"
1,458 regular decision applicants were admitted to the Class of 2007, bringing this year's overall acceptance rate to an historic low of 11.4%. The number of overall applicants increased by 14.7% this year, from 15,456 to 17,731. 35% of American students admitted this year are minority students. That number rises to almost 40% if international students are considered. In the class of 2006, 42% of those accepted were minority students.