United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest 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 2018/19 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
S	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4%
H	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	5%
P	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	5%
Y	Yale University New Haven, CT	6%
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	6%
C	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	7%
C	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	7%
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	7%
P	Pomona College Claremont, CA	8%
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	8%
J	The Juilliard School New York, NY	8%
P	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	8%
B	Brown University Providence, RI	8%
C	Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA	9%
N	United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland	9%
D	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	9%
D	Duke University Durham, NC	9%
S	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	9%
B	Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	10%
V	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	10%