Top Private Colleges Acceptance Rates and Admission Statistics

The average acceptance rate of Top Private Colleges is 3.92%, a total of 44,392 applicants applied to the schools and 1,766 accepted.

Columbia University in the City of New York had the most number of applicants of 60,115 and California Institute of Technology had the least number of applicants of 13,856 among Top Private Colleges.

California Institute of Technology had the lowest acceptance rate of 2.57% and Princeton University had the highest rate of 4.62%.

Table. Top Private Colleges Acceptance Rates and Admission Comparison
RankSchool ApplicantsAdmittedEnrolledAcceptance RateYield
1Stanford UniversityStanford, CA57,3262,0671,6933.61%81.91%
2Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA28,2321,2841,1024.55%85.83%
3Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA54,0081,9701,6473.65%83.60%
4Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT57,5172,2271,5543.87%69.78%
5Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ40,4681,8681,4104.62%75.48%
6California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, CA13,8563562182.57%61.24%
7Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York, NY60,1152,4001,5583.99%64.92%
8University of ChicagoChicago, IL43,6121,9551,7264.48%88.29%
-Average44,3921,7661,3644%76%