Top-20-us-colleges 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

For the academic year 2022-2023, the average acceptance rate of top-20-us-colleges is 6.44%. The yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 60.24%.
A total of 982,505 have applied, 63,297 admitted, and 38,128 students have enrolled one of top-20-us-colleges.
California Institute of Technology is the tightest school to admit with 2.69% acceptance rate, and Harvard University has the second lowest acceptance rate of 3.24%.

Top-20-us-colleges 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

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2023 Acceptance Rates & Admission Statistics Comparison Table
School NameApplicantsAdmitted EnrolledAcceptance RateAdmission Yield
Brown University Providence, RI50,6492,5621,717 5.06%67.02%
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA16,626448224 2.69%50.00%
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY60,8792,4041,540 3.95%64.06%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY69,1955,1683,491 7.47%67.55%
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH28,3361,8081,124 6.38%62.17%
Duke University Durham, NC50,0163,1741,745 6.35%54.98%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA61,2211,9841,646 3.24%82.96%
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD37,8442,7451,406 7.25%51.22%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA33,7671,3371,136 3.96%84.97%
Northwestern University Evanston, IL51,2613,6952,038 7.21%55.16%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ38,0192,1671,499 5.70%69.17%
Rice University Houston, TX31,4432,7301,203 8.68%44.07%
Stanford University Stanford, CA56,3782,0751,736 3.68%83.66%
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA149,80112,8456,462 8.57%50.31%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL37,5222,0391,729 5.43%84.80%
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN26,5093,4212,037 12.91%59.54%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA54,5883,5492,409 6.50%67.88%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN46,3773,0931,619 6.67%52.34%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO32,0143,7641,813 11.76%48.17%
Yale University New Haven, CT50,0602,2891,554 4.57%67.89%
Average49,1253,1651,9066.44%60.24%
*Schools missing information are not included in this table. The schools have not report their information to the IPEDS/NCES or not applicable.)
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