Top-colleges-in-united-states 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

For the academic year 2022-2023, the average acceptance rate of top-colleges-in-united-states is 4.47%. The yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 73.66%.

A total of 409,060 have applied, 18,292 admitted, and 13,473 students have enrolled one of top-colleges-in-united-states.

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-colleges-in-united-states 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

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2023 Acceptance Rates & Admission Statistics Comparison Table
School Name	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Admission Yield
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	16,626	448	224	2.69%	50.00%
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	60,879	2,404	1,540	3.95%	64.06%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	61,221	1,984	1,646	3.24%	82.96%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	33,767	1,337	1,136	3.96%	84.97%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	38,019	2,167	1,499	5.70%	69.17%
Stanford University Stanford, CA	56,378	2,075	1,736	3.68%	83.66%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	37,522	2,039	1,729	5.43%	84.80%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	54,588	3,549	2,409	6.50%	67.88%
Yale University New Haven, CT	50,060	2,289	1,554	4.57%	67.89%
Average	45,451	2,032	1,497	4.47%	73.66%

*Schools missing information are not included in this table. The schools have not report their information to the IPEDS/NCES or not applicable.)