Have you been awake at night wondering about the application fees for undergraduate admission at each of the eight Ivy League schools? If so, we’ve got those application fee figures so you can rest easy.

Ivy League Application Fees for 2025-2026 Admissions Cycle

Below is the application fee for first-year admission at each of the eight Ivy League schools for the 2025-2026 admissions cycles (unless students receive a fee waiver). You’ll also find the 2022-2023 and 2017-2018 application fees for each Ivy to compare and contrast. In 2019, when we reported on application fees at each of the eight Ivies, it may surprise our readers that, despite sharp inflation, five of the eight institutions had the same application fees as they do now. The only exceptions? No, it isn’t Columbia University, despite its hefty real estate costs in New York City. Harvard University raised its first-year application fee to $85 from $75 and Dartmouth College raised its application fee to $85 from $80. Brown University, most recently, raised its application fee to $80 from $75.

And why have five of the eight Ivies not hiked their first-year application fees? Because they want to encourage applicants to apply. The more students who apply, the lower the school’s admission rate will be, and invariably the higher the school will be ranked in the all-important US News & World Report annual college ranking.

Ivy League School	2025-2026 Application Fee for First-Year Undergraduate Admissions	2022-2023 Application Fee for First-Year Undergraduate Admissions	2017-2018 Application Fee for First-Year Undergraduate Admissions
Brown University	$80.00	$75.00	$75.00
Columbia University	$85.00	$85.00	$85.00
Cornell University	$80.00	$80.00	$80.00
Dartmouth College	$85.00	$80.00	$80.00
Harvard University	$85.00	$85.00	$75.00
University of Pennsylvania	$75.00	$75.00	$75.00
Princeton University	$75.00	$75.00	$75.00
Yale University	$80.00	$80.00	$80.00

Application Fee Revenue for the Class of 2030: How Much Will Each Ivy League School Make?

Since the 2025-2026 application process to Ivy League schools won’t be complete until April 2026, revenue for applications to the Class of 2030 can’t yet be forecasted. And while application fee revenue is not yet available for the eight Ivy League schools for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle, assuming that all of the Ivies — more or less — grant the same percentage of fee waivers to low-income applicants (about 20% in recent years), which of the schools raked in the most revenue from applications?

That would be based on overall applications. Since applications have been skyrocketing at each Ivy League school in recent years, it’s thus no surprise that application fee revenue is rising — even if seven of the eight institutions have kept their application fees steady.

And while Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, and Penn have yet to release their admissions statistics for the Class of 2029, making it impossible to forecast their projected application revenue for the year, Cornell likely led the Ivies — as it did during the 2017-2018 admissions cycle — in total application revenue based on its total number of applicants. Dartmouth traditionally rakes in the least cash from application dollars since it attracts the fewest applicants as the smallest of the Ivies.

But since these are projections, stay tuned to find out where these numbers land once released!

Ivy League School	Total Applications for Class of 2029	2024-2025 Application Fee Estimated Projected Revenue	2022-2023 Application Fee Estimated Projected Revenue	2017-2018 Application Fee Revenue
Brown University	42,765	$2.74 million	$3.08 million	$2.42 million
Columbia University	59,616	$4.05 million	$3.88 million	$3.14 million
Cornell University	Not Yet Released	TBD	$5.69 million	$3.59 million
Dartmouth College	28,320	$1.91 million	$1.85 million	$1.65 million
Harvard University	Not Yet Released	TBD	$3.87 million	$2.92 million
University of Pennsylvania	Not Yet Released	TBD	$3.54 million	$2.91 million
Princeton University	Not Yet Released	TBD	$2.85 million	$1.9 million
Yale University	50,227	$3.21 million	$3.34 million	$2.51 million
* Since the figures are not yet available, these calculations are based on assuming that 20% of application fees are waived at each of the Ivies, relatively consistent with past trends.