New York Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 188 colleges in New York with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Columbia University in the City of New York leads the list by accepting 4% of high school students that applied.

List of New York Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland

Suffern, NY

40%
SUNY at Binghamton

Vestal, NY

42%
The King's College

New York, NY

45%
Bard College

Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

46%
Union College

Schenectady, NY

47%
CUNY Hunter College

New York, NY

48%
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

49%
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

New York, NY

50%
Davis College

Johnson City, NY

50%
Pratt Institute Main

Brooklyn, NY

50%
Sarah Lawrence College

Bronxville, NY

50%
Alfred University

Alfred, NY

51%
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York, NY

51%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America

New York, NY

51%
Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

52%
Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, NY

53%
Fordham University

Bronx, NY

54%
CUNY Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

55%