Lowest Acceptance Rates Rankings - Colleges and Universities in the US 2018

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* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

SchoolLocationFall 2016 acceptance rate
Alice Lloyd College(Pippa Passes, KY)4%
Curtis Institute of Music(Philadelphia, PA)4%
Harvard University(Cambridge, MA)5%
Stanford University(Stanford, CA)5%
Columbia University(New York, NY)6%
Yale University(New Haven, CT)6%
Juilliard School(New York, NY)7%
Princeton University(Princeton, NJ)7%
California Institute of Technology(Pasadena, CA)8%
Jarvis Christian College(Hawkins, TX)8%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Cambridge, MA)8%
United States Naval Academy(Annapolis, MD)8%
University of Chicago(Chicago, IL)8%
Brown University(Providence, RI)9%
Claremont McKenna College(Claremont, CA)9%
Pomona College(Claremont, CA)9%
University of Pennsylvania(Philadelphia, PA)9%
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering(Needham, MA)10%
United States Military Academy(West Point, NY)10%
Dartmouth College(Hanover, NH)11%
Duke University(Durham, NC)11%
Northwestern University(Evanston, IL)11%
Vanderbilt University(Nashville, TN)11%
Johns Hopkins University(Baltimore, MD)12%
Southern University--New Orleans(New Orleans, LA)12%
Cooper Union(New York, NY)13%
Harvey Mudd College(Claremont, CA)13%
Swarthmore College(Swarthmore, PA)13%
Amherst College(Amherst, MA)14%
College of the Ozarks(Point Lookout, MO)14%
Cornell University(Ithaca, NY)14%
Pitzer College(Claremont, CA)14%
Tufts University(Medford, MA)14%
Bowdoin College(Brunswick, ME)15%
Briar Cliff University(Sioux City, IA)15%
Rice University(Houston, TX)15%
United States Air Force Academy(USAF Academy, CO)15%
United States Merchant Marine Academy(Kings Point, NY)15%
Colorado College(Colorado Springs, CO)16%
Middlebury College(Middlebury, VT)16%
University of California--Berkeley(Berkeley, CA)16%
Barnard College(New York, NY)17%
Georgetown University(Washington, DC)17%
University of Southern California(Los Angeles, CA)17%
Washington University in St. Louis(St. Louis, MO)17%
University of California--Los Angeles(Los Angeles, CA)18%
Wesleyan University(Middletown, CT)18%
Williams College(Williamstown, MA)18%
Atlanta Metropolitan State College(Atlanta, GA)19%
Colby College(Waterville, ME)19%
University of Notre Dame(Notre Dame, IN)19%
Davidson College(Davidson, NC)20%
Grinnell College(Grinnell, IA)20%
Chicago State University(Chicago, IL)21%
Haverford College(Haverford, PA)21%
United States Coast Guard Academy(New London, CT)21%
Carnegie Mellon University(Pittsburgh, PA)22%
University of Puerto Rico--Bayamon(Bayamon, PR)22%
Art Academy of Cincinnati(Cincinnati, OH)23%
Bates College(Lewiston, ME)23%
Carleton College(Northfield, MN)23%
Florida Memorial University(Miami, FL)23%
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology(Socorro, NM)23%
California Institute of the Arts(Valencia, CA)24%
Washington and Lee University(Lexington, VA)24%
Babson College(Babson Park, MA)25%
Emory University(Atlanta, GA)25%
Warner University(Lake Wales, FL)25%
American University(Washington, DC)26%
Fort Valley State University(Fort Valley, GA)26%
Georgia Institute of Technology(Atlanta, GA)26%
Hamilton College(Clinton, NY)26%
Lehigh University(Bethlehem, PA)26%
Tulane University(New Orleans, LA)26%
Kenyon College(Gambier, OH)27%
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill(Chapel Hill, NC)27%
Vassar College(Poughkeepsie, NY)27%
Arkansas Baptist College(Little Rock, AR)28%
Lafayette College(Easton, PA)28%
Liberty University(Lynchburg, VA)28%
Oberlin College(Oberlin, OH)28%
Southwestern Assemblies of God University(Waxahachie, TX)28%
Boston University(Boston, MA)29%
California Polytechnic State University--San Luis Obispo(San Luis Obispo, CA)29%
Colgate University(Hamilton, NY)29%
Medaille College(Buffalo, NY)29%
Northeastern University(Boston, MA)29%
Plaza College(Forest Hills, NY)29%
Skidmore College(Saratoga Springs, NY)29%
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor(Ann Arbor, MI)29%
Webb Institute(Glen Cove, NY)29%
Wellesley College(Wellesley, MA)29%
Bucknell University(Lewisburg, PA)30%
Calumet College of St. Joseph(Whiting, IN)30%
Howard University(Washington, DC)30%
Scripps College(Claremont, CA)30%
University of Virginia(Charlottesville, VA)30%
Wake Forest University(Winston-Salem, NC)30%
Florida A&M University(Tallahassee, FL)31%
Paine College(Augusta, GA)31%

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