United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 3585 colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Stanford University leads the list by accepting 4% of high school students that applied.
Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
| College | Acceptance Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| S |
Stanford University |
4% |
| H |
Harvard University |
5% |
| P |
Princeton University |
5% |
| Y |
Yale University |
6% |
| C |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
6% |
| C |
California Institute of Technology |
7% |
| C |
University of Chicago |
7% |
| M |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
7% |
| P |
Pomona College |
8% |
| N |
Northwestern University |
8% |
| J |
The Juilliard School |
8% |
| P |
University of Pennsylvania |
8% |
| B |
Brown University |
8% |
| C |
Claremont McKenna College |
9% |
| N |
United States Naval Academy |
9% |
| D |
Dartmouth College |
9% |
| D |
Duke University |
9% |
| S |
Swarthmore College |
9% |
| B |
Bowdoin College |
10% |
| V |
Vanderbilt University |
10% |