Top 100 - Lowest Acceptance Rates
Many students aspire for admission to a prestigious college or university, but the supply of open seats often does not meet the demand from applicants. Earning admission to the schools on this list can be especially difficult. With the lowest acceptance rates among all undergraduate institutions surveyed by U.S. News, regardless of ranking category, the 100 colleges and universities listed here are among the most selective, based on the fall 2011 entering class.
| Save | School | Fall 2011 acceptance rate |
|---|---|---|
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Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA |
3.2% | |
|
Juilliard School
New York, NY |
6.0% | |
|
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
6.3% | |
|
Columbia University
New York, NY |
7.0% | |
|
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
7.1% | |
|
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD |
7.5% | |
|
Cooper Union
New York, NY |
7.7% | |
|
Yale University
New Haven, CT |
7.7% | |
|
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ |
8.5% | |
|
Brown University
Providence, RI |
8.9% | |
|
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, MO |
8.9% | |
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA |
9.7% | |
|
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH |
10.1% | |
|
Florida Memorial University
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Miami, FL |
10.5% 4 | |
|
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY |
10.6% | |
|
United States Air Force Academy
USAF Academy, CO |
10.8% | |
|
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA |
12.4% | |
|
Berea College
Berea, KY |
12.5% | |
|
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA |
12.8% | |
|
Amherst College
Amherst, MA |
13.3% | |
|
Duke University
Durham, NC |
14.0% | |
|
Pomona College
Claremont, CA |
14.0% | |
|
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA |
14.1% | |
|
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA |
15.1% | |
|
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME |
16.1% |
