Top 100 – Lowest Acceptance Rates Rankings - US National Universities and Colleges 2016

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School Fall 2014 acceptance rate

Curtis Institute of Music

(Philadelphia, PA)

4.8% 4

Stanford University

(Stanford, CA)

5.1%

Harvard University

(Cambridge, MA)

6%

Yale University

(New Haven, CT)

6.3%

Columbia University

(New York, NY)

7%

Alice Lloyd College

(Pippa Passes, KY)

7.1%

Princeton University

(Princeton, NJ)

7.4%

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Cambridge, MA)

7.9%

United States Naval Academy

(Annapolis, MD)

7.9%

College of the Ozarks

(Point Lookout, MO)

8.3%

Juilliard School

(New York, NY)

8.4%

Brown University

(Providence, RI)

8.7%

California Institute of Technology

(Pasadena, CA)

8.8%

University of Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

8.8%

United States Military Academy

(West Point, NY)

9.5%

University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA)

10.4%

Claremont McKenna College

(Claremont, CA)

10.8%

Duke University

(Durham, NC)

11.4%

Dartmouth College

(Hanover, NH)

11.5%

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

(Needham, MA)

12%

Pomona College

(Claremont, CA)

12.2%

Pitzer College

(Claremont, CA)

13%

Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL)

13.1%

Vanderbilt University

(Nashville, TN)

13.1%

Amherst College

(Amherst, MA)

13.8%

Cornell University

(Ithaca, NY)

14.2%

Harvey Mudd College

(Claremont, CA)

14.3%

Bowdoin College

(Brunswick, ME)

14.9%

Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD)

15%

Cooper Union

(New York, NY)

15.1%

Rice University

(Houston, TX)

15.1%

University of California—​Berkeley

(Berkeley, CA)

16%

Mississippi Valley State University

(Itta Bena, MS)

16.3%

United States Air Force Academy

(USAF Academy, CO)

16.6%

Swarthmore College

(Swarthmore, PA)

17%

Washington University in St. Louis

(St. Louis, MO)

17.1%

Middlebury College

(Middlebury, VT)

17.2%

Tufts University

(Medford, MA)

17.3%

Georgetown University

(Washington, DC)

17.4%

Rust College

(Holly Springs, MS)

17.5%

Colorado College

(Colorado Springs, CO)

17.9%

University of Southern California

(Los Angeles, CA)

18%

United States Coast Guard Academy

(New London, CT)

18.1%

University of California—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA)

18.6%

Williams College

(Williamstown, MA)

19.3%

Washington and Lee University

(Lexington, VA)

19.6%

Liberty University

(Lynchburg, VA)

20.2%

Florida Memorial University

(Miami, FL)

20.5%

University of Notre Dame

(Notre Dame, IN)

21.1%

Davidson College

(Davidson, NC)

21.7%

Missouri Valley College

(Marshall, MO)

22.2% 4

United States Merchant Marine Academy

(Kings Point, NY)

22.3%

Carleton College

(Northfield, MN)

22.8%

Vassar College

(Poughkeepsie, NY)

23.5%

Barnard College

(New York, NY)

23.8%

Wesleyan University

(Middletown, CT)

23.9%

Fort Valley State University

(Fort Valley, GA)

24.2%

Art Academy of Cincinnati

(Cincinnati, OH)

24.3%

Robert Morris University

(Chicago, IL)

24.3%

Carnegie Mellon University

(Pittsburgh, PA)

24.6%

Haverford College

(Haverford, PA)

24.7%

Kenyon College

(Gambier, OH)

25.1%

Bates College

(Lewiston, ME)

25.4%

Jackson State University

(Jackson, MS)

26.1%

Colgate University

(Hamilton, NY)

26.2%

Warner University

(Lake Wales, FL)

26.2%

Babson College

(Babson Park, MA)

26.3%

Hamilton College

(Clinton, NY)

26.4%

Emory University

(Atlanta, GA)

26.8%

Lincoln University

(Lincoln University, PA)

27.1%

Edward Waters College

(Jacksonville, FL)

27.3% 4

Scripps College

(Claremont, CA)

27.3%

California Institute of the Arts

(Valencia, CA)

27.7%

New England Conservatory of Music

(Boston, MA)

27.8% 4

CUNY—​Baruch College

(New York, NY)

27.9%

Grinnell College

(Grinnell, IA)

28%

Tulane University

(New Orleans, LA)

27.9%

Colby College

(Waterville, ME)

28.1%

College of New Rochelle

(New Rochelle, NY)

28.5%

University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC)

28.5%

CUNY—​Lehman College

(Bronx, NY)

28.9%

University of Virginia

(Charlottesville, VA)

29%

Hampton University

(Hampton, VA)

29.1%

Lafayette College

(Easton, PA)

29.8%

Chicago State University

(Chicago, IL)

30%

Calumet College of St. Joseph

(Whiting, IN)

30.3%

Wellesley College

(Wellesley, MA)

30.4%

Bucknell University

(Lewisburg, PA)

30.7%

California Polytechnic State University—​San Luis Obispo

(San Luis Obispo, CA)

30.9%

Hope International University

(Fullerton, CA)

30.9%

Wilson College

(Chambersburg, PA)

31.3%

Southwestern Adventist University

(Keene, TX)

31.5% 4

University of Richmond

(Univ. of Richmond, VA)

31.8%

Northeastern University

(Boston, MA)

32.2%

University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor

(Ann Arbor, MI)

32.2%

Ohio Valley University

(Vienna, WV)

32.4%

Oberlin College

(Oberlin, OH)

32.7%

College of William and Mary

(Williamsburg, VA)

33%

Trinity College

(Hartford, CT)

33%

Webb Institute

(Glen Cove, NY)

33%

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