Hardest Colleges to Get Into

The 50 most selective U.S. colleges by current acceptance rate (IPEDS data).

#	College	State	Rate	Applicants
1	California Institute of Technology	California	3.1%	13,107
2	Harvard University	Massachusetts	3.5%	56,937
3	Minerva University	California	3.6%	9,856
4	Stanford University	California	3.9%	53,733
5	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York	4.2%	57,613
6	Princeton University	New Jersey	4.5%	39,644
7	Yale University	Connecticut	4.5%	51,803
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts	4.7%	26,904
9	University of Chicago	Illinois	4.8%	38,631
10	Brown University	Rhode Island	5.2%	51,316
11	Northeastern University	Massachusetts	5.6%	96,631
12	University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	5.9%	59,465
13	Dartmouth College	New Hampshire	6.2%	28,841
14	Vanderbilt University	Tennessee	6.3%	45,313
15	Colby College	Maine	6.8%	17,786
16	Duke University	North Carolina	6.8%	46,365
17	Pomona College	California	6.8%	12,121
18	Swarthmore College	Pennsylvania	6.9%	14,287
19	Northwestern University	Illinois	7.2%	51,769
20	Johns Hopkins University	Maryland	7.6%	38,926
21	Rice University	Texas	7.9%	31,059
22	Barnard College	New York	8%	11,803
23	Bowdoin College	Maine	8%	10,966
24	Cornell University	New York	8.2%	65,635
25	University of California-Los Angeles	California	8.7%	145,903
26	The Juilliard School	New York	9%	2,020
27	New York University	New York	9.4%	113,578
28	United States Naval Academy	Maryland	9.4%	14,727
29	Amherst College	Massachusetts	9.8%	12,727
30	University of Southern California	California	10%	80,808
31	Williams College	Massachusetts	10%	11,465
32	Tufts University	Massachusetts	10.1%	34,003
33	Middlebury College	Vermont	10.4%	13,297
34	Boston University	Massachusetts	10.8%	80,495
35	Claremont McKenna College	California	11.1%	5,799
36	Emory University	Georgia	11.1%	31,929
37	Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	11.4%	33,707
38	Stanbridge University	California	11.4%	2,700
39	University of California-Berkeley	California	11.7%	125,910
40	Hamilton College	New York	11.8%	9,643
41	Colgate University	New York	12%	21,130
42	Washington University in St Louis	Missouri	12%	32,240
43	University of Notre Dame	Indiana	12.4%	28,353
44	Grinnell College	Iowa	12.7%	9,988
45	Haverford College	Pennsylvania	12.9%	6,391
46	Bates College	Maine	13%	8,937
47	Georgetown University	District of Columbia	13.1%	25,485
48	Harvey Mudd College	California	13.1%	4,792
49	Rhode Island School of Design	Rhode Island	13.8%	7,126
50	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	13.9%	9,543