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

Curtis Institute of Music

(Philadelphia, PA)

Stanford University

(Stanford, CA)

Harvard University

(Cambridge, MA)

Yale University

(New Haven, CT)

Columbia University

(New York, NY)

Alice Lloyd College

(Pippa Passes, KY)

Princeton University

(Princeton, NJ)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Cambridge, MA)

United States Naval Academy

(Annapolis, MD)

College of the Ozarks

(Point Lookout, MO)

Juilliard School

(New York, NY)

Brown University

(Providence, RI)

California Institute of Technology

(Pasadena, CA)

University of Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

United States Military Academy

(West Point, NY)

University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA)

Claremont McKenna College

(Claremont, CA)

Duke University

(Durham, NC)

Dartmouth College

(Hanover, NH)

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

(Needham, MA)

Pomona College

(Claremont, CA)

Pitzer College

(Claremont, CA)

Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL)

Vanderbilt University

(Nashville, TN)

Amherst College

(Amherst, MA)

Cornell University

(Ithaca, NY)

Harvey Mudd College

(Claremont, CA)

Bowdoin College

(Brunswick, ME)

Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD)

Cooper Union

(New York, NY)

Rice University

(Houston, TX)

University of California—​Berkeley

(Berkeley, CA)

Mississippi Valley State University

(Itta Bena, MS)

United States Air Force Academy

(USAF Academy, CO)

Swarthmore College

(Swarthmore, PA)

Washington University in St. Louis

(St. Louis, MO)

Middlebury College

(Middlebury, VT)

Tufts University

(Medford, MA)

Georgetown University

(Washington, DC)

Rust College

(Holly Springs, MS)

Colorado College

(Colorado Springs, CO)

University of Southern California

(Los Angeles, CA)

United States Coast Guard Academy

(New London, CT)

University of California—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA)

Williams College

(Williamstown, MA)

Washington and Lee University

(Lexington, VA)

Liberty University

(Lynchburg, VA)

Florida Memorial University

(Miami, FL)

University of Notre Dame

(Notre Dame, IN)

Davidson College

(Davidson, NC)

Missouri Valley College

(Marshall, MO)

United States Merchant Marine Academy

(Kings Point, NY)

Carleton College

(Northfield, MN)

Vassar College

(Poughkeepsie, NY)

Barnard College

(New York, NY)

Wesleyan University

(Middletown, CT)

Fort Valley State University

(Fort Valley, GA)

Art Academy of Cincinnati

(Cincinnati, OH)

Robert Morris University

(Chicago, IL)

Carnegie Mellon University

(Pittsburgh, PA)

Haverford College

(Haverford, PA)

Kenyon College

(Gambier, OH)

Bates College

(Lewiston, ME)

Jackson State University

(Jackson, MS)

Colgate University

(Hamilton, NY)

Warner University

(Lake Wales, FL)

Babson College

(Babson Park, MA)

Hamilton College

(Clinton, NY)

Emory University

(Atlanta, GA)

Lincoln University

(Lincoln University, PA)

Edward Waters College

(Jacksonville, FL)

Scripps College

(Claremont, CA)

California Institute of the Arts

(Valencia, CA)

New England Conservatory of Music

(Boston, MA)

CUNY—​Baruch College

(New York, NY)

Grinnell College

(Grinnell, IA)

Tulane University

(New Orleans, LA)

Colby College

(Waterville, ME)

College of New Rochelle

(New Rochelle, NY)

University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC)

CUNY—​Lehman College

(Bronx, NY)

University of Virginia

(Charlottesville, VA)

Hampton University

(Hampton, VA)

Lafayette College

(Easton, PA)

Chicago State University

(Chicago, IL)

Calumet College of St. Joseph

(Whiting, IN)

Wellesley College

(Wellesley, MA)

Bucknell University

(Lewisburg, PA)

California Polytechnic State University—​San Luis Obispo

(San Luis Obispo, CA)

Hope International University

(Fullerton, CA)

Wilson College

(Chambersburg, PA)

Southwestern Adventist University

(Keene, TX)

University of Richmond

(Univ. of Richmond, VA)

Northeastern University

(Boston, MA)

University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor

(Ann Arbor, MI)

Ohio Valley University

(Vienna, WV)

Oberlin College

(Oberlin, OH)

College of William and Mary

(Williamsburg, VA)

Trinity College

(Hartford, CT)

Webb Institute

(Glen Cove, NY)