United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 1317 private colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. California Institute of Technology leads the list by accepting 3% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Curtis Institute of Music

Philadelphia, PA

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7%
Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA

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7%
Bowdoin College

Brunswick, ME

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8%
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

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8%
Barnard College

New York, NY

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8%
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

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8%
Rice University

Houston, TX

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8%
The Juilliard School

New York, NY

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9%
New York University

New York, NY

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9%
Pacific Oaks College

Pasadena, CA

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10%
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

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10%
Amherst College

Amherst, MA

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10%
Tufts University

Medford, MA

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10%
Williams College

Williamstown, MA

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10%
Middlebury College

Middlebury, VT

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10%
Claremont McKenna College

Claremont, CA

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11%
Emory University

Atlanta, GA

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11%
Boston University

Boston, MA

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11%