Tightest Colleges To Get In

The average acceptance rate over 4-years colleges is higher than last year, but high ranked colleges still have low acceptance rate. In particular, the acceptance rate at prestigious colleges such as best colleges including Stanford, Harvard, and MIT is lower than last year.

For 2023 admission, the acceptance rate of 27 colleges is lower than 50%. It means that the chance of acceptance is very low at the colleges. There are two reasons for the low acceptance rate at those schools. Firstly, more applicants applied to these colleges than in previous years, and secondly, these colleges want to maintain a low acceptance rate for the quality of education and high rankings.

The table below shows 27 tightest colleges to admit with acceptance rates below 50%. We note that the actual tightness of admission lies in considering other admission requirements such as SAT score.

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California Institute of Technology has the lowest acceptance rate (tightest rate) of 2.69% and Harvard University has the second lowest rate of 3.24% among 1,185 colleges with competitive admission. California Institute of Technology stay at first place of the lowest acceptance rate ranking since last year. Harvard University ranked 2nd, up 1 place from 3rd last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $63,660 and graduate tuition & fees is $54,670 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The following table compares the tuition and other academic characteristics between 27 Tightest Colleges To Get In.

Table. Tightest Colleges To Get In Comparison
	School Name	Acceptance Rate	Yield	SAT Score	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Total Population	Graduation Rate	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Private, four-years	2.69% 1.23%	50.00%	-	$63,255	2,401	94.00%	3 to 1
2 1	Harvard University Cambridge, MA Private, four-years	3.24% 0.77%	82.96%	1,550	$59,076	30,631	97.00%	7 to 1
3 1	Stanford University Stanford, CA Private, four-years	3.68% 0.27%	83.66%	1,550	$62,484	18,283	95.00%	5 to 1
4 1	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Private, four-years	3.95% 0.18%	64.06%	1,530	$69,045	34,782	95.00%	6 to 1
5 1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Private, four-years	3.96% 0.15%	84.97%	1,560	$60,156	11,858	94.00%	3 to 1
6 1	Yale University New Haven, CT Private, four-years	4.57% 0.74%	67.89%	1,540	$64,700	14,776	97.00%	6 to 1
7 1	Brown University Providence, RI Private, four-years	5.06% 0.45%	67.02%	1,540	$68,230	11,189	94.00%	6 to 1
8 4	University of Chicago Chicago, IL Private, four-years	5.43% 1.05%	84.80%	1,540	$66,939	18,339	95.00%	5 to 1
9 3	Princeton University Princeton, NJ Private, four-years	5.70% 1.32%	69.17%	1,540	$59,710	8,842	97.00%	5 to 1
10 -	Duke University Durham, NC Private, four-years	6.35% 0.46%	54.98%	1,550	$65,805	18,023	96.00%	6 to 1
11 -	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Private, four-years	6.38% 0.21%	62.17%	1,550	$65,739	6,744	94.00%	7 to 1
12 3	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Private, four-years	6.50% 0.63%	67.88%	1,540	$66,104	28,201	96.00%	8 to 1
13 2	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Private, four-years	6.67% 0.47%	52.34%	1,530	$63,946	13,710	92.00%	7 to 1
14 13	Northeastern University Boston, MA Private, four-years	6.80% 11.58%	40.69%	1,500	$63,141	30,013	91.00%	16 to 1
15 2	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA Private, four-years	6.93% 0.86%	42.49%	1,520	$62,412	1,625	93.00%	8 to 1
16 3	Pomona College Claremont, CA Private, four-years	7.02% 0.38%	55.14%	1,520	$62,326	1,716	94.00%	7 to 1
17 3	Northwestern University Evanston, IL Private, four-years	7.21% 0.24%	55.16%	1,530	$65,997	23,161	96.00%	6 to 1
18 2	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Private, four-years	7.25% 0.27%	51.22%	1,550	$63,340	31,275	94.00%	6 to 1
19 -	Amherst College Amherst, MA Private, four-years	7.26% 1.48%	43.28%	1,510	$67,280	1,898	91.00%	7 to 1
20 2	Cornell University Ithaca, NY Private, four-years	7.47% 1.22%	67.55%	1,530	$66,014	25,898	95.00%	9 to 1
21 1	Colby College Waterville, ME Private, four-years	7.61% 1.26%	52.33%	1,490	$66,600	2,299	88.00%	10 to 1
22 1	Williams College Williamstown, MA Private, four-years	8.50% 0.33%	44.32%	1,530	$64,860	2,222	95.00%	6 to 1
23 1	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public, four-years	8.57% 2.20%	50.31%	-	$44,524 ($13,747)	46,430	92.00%	18 to 1
24 1	Rice University Houston, TX Private, four-years	8.68% 0.80%	44.07%	1,540	$58,128	8,672	93.00%	6 to 1
25 1	Barnard College New York, NY Private, four-years	8.79% 2.68%	66.00%	1,505	$66,246	3,442	91.00%	10 to 1
26 6	Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME Private, four-years	9.19% 0.37%	58.93%	1,520	$64,910	1,915	94.00%	9 to 1
27 2	Tufts University Medford, MA Private, four-years	9.69% 1.74%	50.13%	1,510	$67,844	13,431	93.00%	10 to 1
	Average	6.49%	59.76%	1,531	$63,660 ($13,747)	15,251	93.93%	7 to 1

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