Below you'll find our list of top 100 colleges in the United States with the lowest rates of acceptance for entering freshman. While some colleges and universities will accept just about anyone who applies, these schools pride themselves on being very selective. These are some of the hardest colleges to get into.
| School Name | Acceptance Rate |
| Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| 4.9% |
| Stanford University
Stanford, California
| 5.1% |
| Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
| 6% |
| Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
| 6.3% |
| Columbia University
New York City, New York
| 7% |
| Alice Lloyd College
Pippa Passes, Kentucky
| 7.1% |
| Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
| 7.4% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
| 7.9% |
| United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland
| 7.9% |
| College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
| 8.3% |
| Juilliard School
New York City, New York
| 8.4% |
| Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
| 8.7% |
| California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
| 8.8% |
| University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
| 8.8% |
| United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
| 9.5% |
| University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| 10.5% |
| Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
| 10.9% |
| Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
| 11.5% |
| Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
| 11.5% |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Needham, Massachusetts
| 12% |
| Pomona College
Claremont, California
| 12.1% |
| Pitzer College
Claremont, California
| 13% |
| Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
| 13.2% |
| Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
| 13.1% |
| Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
| 13.8% |
| Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
| 14.2% |
| Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, California
| 14.4% |
| Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
| 14.9% |
| Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
| 15% |
| Cooper Union
New York City, New York
| 15.1% |
| Rice University
Houston, Texas
| 15.1% |
| University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, California
| 16% |
| Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, Mississippi
| 16.2% |
| United States Air Force Academy
USAF, Colorado
| 16.6% |
| Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
| 17% |
| Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
| 17.1% |
| Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont
| 17.3% |
| Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
| 17.3% |
| Georgetown University
Washington, DC
| 17.4% |
| Rust College
Holly Springs, Mississippi
| 17.6% |
| Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
| 18% |
| University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
| 18% |
| United States Coast Guard Academy
New London, Connecticut
| 18.1% |
| University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, California
| 18.5% |
| Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
| 19.4% |
| Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia
| 19.6% |
| Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia
| 20.3% |
| Florida Memorial University
Miami, Florida
| 20.5% |
| University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
| 21.5% |
| Davidson College
Davidso, North Carolina
| 21.7% |
| Missouri Valley College
Marshall, Missouri
| 22.2% |
| United States Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point, New York
| 22.4% |
| Carleton College
Northfield, Minnesota
| 22.8% |
| Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
| 23.5% |
| Barnard College
New York, New York
| 23.7% |
| Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut
| 23.9% |
| Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia
| 24.2% |
| Art Academy of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
| 24.3% |
| Robert Morris University
Chicago, Illinois
| 24.4% |
| Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| 24.6% |
| Haverford College
Haverford, Pennsylvania
| 24.7% |
| Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
| 25.1% |
| Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
| 25.4% |
| Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi
| 26.1% |
| Colgate University
Hamilton, New York
| 26.1% |
| Warner University
Lake Wales, Florida
| 26.2% |
| Babson College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
| 26.4% |
| Hamilton College
Clinton, New York
| 26.4% |
| Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
| 26.8% |
| Lincoln University
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
| 27.1% |
| Edward Waters College
Jacksonville, Florida
| 27.3% |
| Scripps College
Claremont, California
| 27.4% |
| California Institute of Arts
Valencia, California
| 27.7% |
| CUNY–Baruch College
New York City, New York
| 28% |
| Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa
| 28% |
| Tulane University
New Orleans, Los Angeles
| 28% |
| Colby College
Waterville, Maine
| 28.1% |
| College of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, New York
| 28.5% |
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
| 28.5% |
| CUNY–Lehman College
Bronx, New York
| 29% |
| University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
| 29% |
| Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia
| 29.1% |
| Lafayette College
Easton, Pennsylvania
| 29.8% |
| Chicago State University
Chicago, Illinois
| 30% |
| Calumet College of St. Joseph
Whiting, Indiana
| 30.3% |
| Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
| 30.5% |
| Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
| 30.7% |
| California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, California
| 30.9% |
| Hope International University
Fullerton, California
| 31% |
| Wilson College
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
| 31.4% |
| Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, Texas
| 31.5% |
| University of Richmond
University of Richmond, Virginia
| 31.9% |
| Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
| 32% |
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan
| 32.3% |
| Ohio Valley University
Vienna, West Virginia
| 32.5% |
| Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio
| 32.7% |
| College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
| 33% |
| Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
| 33% |
| Webb Institute
Glen Cove, New York
| 33% |
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