Colleges with the Lowest Acceptance Rate in America for 2019
U.S. Colleges that are Hardest to Get Into
Colleges with the Lowest Acceptance Rate in America for 2019
These are the most selective colleges in the United States. We've ranked the schools which reject over fifty percent of applicants. Leading the list is Harvard University which sent acceptance letters to only 5% of the 39,506 students who applied and rejected 95%. Interestingly, not all schools on our "most selective" lists are overly academically challenging. Schools with less rigorous standardized test and high school GPA requirements may receive a large numbers of qualified applicants and the school does not have space to admit them all.
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Harvard University
- Cambridge, Massachusetts • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 39,506
- Percent Admitted 5%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
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Stanford University
- Stanford, California • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 44,073
- Percent Admitted 5%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
P
Princeton University
- Princeton, New Jersey • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 31,056
- Percent Admitted 6%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
J
The Juilliard School
- New York, New York • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 2,753
- Percent Admitted 6%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
Y
Yale University
- New Haven, Connecticut • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 32,879
- Percent Admitted 7%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge, Massachusetts • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 20,247
- Percent Admitted 7%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
C
Columbia University in the City of New York
- New York, New York • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 38,118
- Percent Admitted 7%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
C
California Institute of Technology
- Pasadena, California • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 7,339
- Percent Admitted 8%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
P
Pomona College
- Claremont, California • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 9,045
- Percent Admitted 8%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
B
Brown University
- Providence, Rhode Island • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 32,723
- Percent Admitted 8%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
C
University of Chicago
- Chicago, Illinois • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 27,694
- Percent Admitted 9%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
N
Northwestern University
- Evanston, Illinois • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 37,259
- Percent Admitted 9%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
P
University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 40,413
- Percent Admitted 9%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
C
Claremont McKenna College
- Claremont, California • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 6,349
- Percent Admitted 10%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
D
Dartmouth College
- Hanover, New Hampshire • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 20,035
- Percent Admitted 10%
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Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
D
Duke University
- Durham, North Carolina • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 33,077
- Percent Admitted 10%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
S
Swarthmore College
- Swarthmore, Pennsylvania • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 9,382
- Percent Admitted 11%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
V
Vanderbilt University
- Nashville, Tennessee • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 31,462
- Percent Admitted 11%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
J
Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, Maryland • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 27,156
- Percent Admitted 13%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
A
Amherst College
- Amherst, Massachusetts • Private 4 Year
- Applicants 9,285
- Percent Admitted 13%
-
Admissions Standards Exceptionally High Standards
