Dive Brief:

• This year’s Ivy League admissions rate is 8.9%, ranging from 5.9% for Harvard University to 14% for Cornell University.
• Admissions rates for the ultra-selective schools have been pushed down in part by a surge in applications. At Princeton, for example, the number has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, according to the Washington Post.
• In this economy, Wal-Mart is even more selective. Only 2.6% of the applicants when it brought its stores to Washington D.C. last year were successful in landing a job.

Dive Insight:

Here are some more numbers: Google hires 0.5% of job applicants, and a Wegman’s in Pennsylvania had a 5% hire rate last year. Brown University’s admissions rate was 8.6%, Columbia University was 6.9%, Dartmouth College was 11.5%, Princeton was 7.3%, University of Pennsylvania was 10%, and Yale University was 6.3%.