New York Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 133 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 4% of high school students that applied.

List of New York Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Yeshiva Derech Chaim

Brooklyn, NY

64%
Metropolitan College of New York

New York, NY

65%
New York School of Interior Design

New York, NY

65%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY

65%
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Albany, NY

66%
Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Brooklyn, New York

67%
Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY

67%
Hobart William Smith Colleges

Geneva, NY

68%
Trocaire College

Buffalo, NY

68%
Hofstra University

Hempstead, NY

69%
Medaille College

Buffalo, NY

69%
Wagner College

Staten Island, NY

69%
Touro College

New York, NY

71%
Marymount Manhattan College

New York, NY

72%
Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas

Brooklyn, NY

72%
Adelphi University

Garden City, NY

73%
Saint John Fisher College

Rochester, NY

73%
The Sage Colleges

Troy, NY

74%