New York Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 143 private colleges in New York with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Columbia University in the City of New York leads the list by accepting 6% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| C |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
6% |
| J |
The Juilliard School |
8% |
| C |
Cornell University |
11% |
| B |
Barnard College |
14% |
| C |
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art |
16% |
| N |
New York University |
20% |
| H |
Hamilton College |
21% |
| N |
New York School of Interior Design |
22% |
| A |
American Musical and Dramatic Academy |
24% |
| C |
Colgate University |
25% |
| V |
Vassar College |
25% |
| S |
Skidmore College |
27% |
| R |
University of Rochester |
29% |
| S |
Saint Elizabeth College of Nursing |
33% |
| M |
Manhattan School of Music |
38% |
| U |
Union College |
39% |
| M |
Maria College of Albany |
40% |
| D |
Davis College |
42% |
| R |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
43% |
| F |
Fordham University |
46% |