United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 1319 private colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. California Institute of Technology leads the list by accepting 4% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	School	Acceptance Rate
	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	4%
	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	4%
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	4%
	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4%
	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	4%
	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4%
	Yale University New Haven, CT	5%
	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	6%
	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	6%
	Duke University Durham, NC	6%
	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	6%
	Brown University Providence, RI	6%
	Pomona College Claremont, CA	7%
	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	7%
	The Juilliard School New York, NY	7%
	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	7%
	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	8%
	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	8%