<p>MIT caps international admissions at 100 per year with about 70-80 matriculating according to the MIT CDS for the past 3 years, percentage of internationals enrolled has been 8.0% (2004), 7.4% (2005) and 7.5% (2006). MIT states that the number of international applicants exceeds 2,000 students for a 5% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>At Yale the numbers are 8.8% (06), 8.6% (05) and 8.1% (06) according to their CDS. Yale does not publish number of international applicants although the Yale Daily News states the number of applicants increased substantially in 2006. (While the percentage of admitted international students went down).</p>
<p>At Harvard according to their Fact Book the percentage of international students enrolled in the college has been 8.9% (06), 8.9% (05) and 8% (04). Harvard claims that number of international applicants jumped by 33% in 2007. We will see if that translates into a greater international enrollment this year. As a comparison point, the percentage of internationals in the graduate and professional schools at Harvard exceed 30%. (Except in the medical school).</p>
<p>At Princeton, the percentage of international students enrolled has increased nominally from 8.35% (2004) to 8.36% (2005) to 8.5% (2006).</p>
<p>It should be noted that all these schools include Canadians in their calculations. Canadians represent anywhere from 20-25% of all international undegrads at these schools, so you are really talking about a non North American enrollment of 5% to 7% with very little variation year to year.</p>
<p>Whether the Ivies have an explicit quota such as MIT or an implicit one (as reflected in the admitted numbers), is practically immaterial. The vast increase in international applications has not translated into increased spaces at these schools’s colleges. In some cases such as Yale, the percentage of internationals admitted into the College has decreased substantially as the domestic pool has ballooned.</p>