California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 83 private colleges in California 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.

List of California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
S	Stanford University	4%
C	California Institute of Technology	7%
P	Pomona College	8%
C	Claremont McKenna College	9%
P	Pitzer College	13%
S	University of Southern California	13%
H	Harvey Mudd College	14%
K	King's University	22%
C	California Institute of the Arts	23%
S	Scripps College	24%
H	Hope International University	29%
P	Pepperdine University	36%
C	Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science	37%
O	Occidental College	37%
S	Soka University of America	39%
V	Vanguard University of Southern California	40%
M	Menlo College	45%
S	San Francisco Conservatory of Music	45%
L	La Sierra University	47%
L	Loyola Marymount University	47%