United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 3586 colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Hampshire College leads the list by accepting 2% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	School	Acceptance Rate
H	Hampshire College Amherst, MA	2%
S	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4%
H	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	5%
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	5%
C	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	6%
Y	Yale University New Haven, CT	6%
C	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	6%
P	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	6%
P	Pomona College Claremont, CA	7%
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	7%
J	The Juilliard School New York, NY	7%
B	Brown University Providence, RI	7%
N	United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland	8%
D	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	8%
D	Duke University Durham, NC	8%
P	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	8%
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	9%
B	Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	9%
S	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	9%
V	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	9%