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 Name	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Admission Yield
Brown University Providence, RI	50,649	2,562	1,717	5.06%	67.02%
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%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	69,195	5,168	3,491	7.47%	67.55%
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	28,336	1,808	1,124	6.38%	62.17%
Duke University Durham, NC	50,016	3,174	1,745	6.35%	54.98%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	61,221	1,984	1,646	3.24%	82.96%
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	37,844	2,745	1,406	7.25%	51.22%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	33,767	1,337	1,136	3.96%	84.97%
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	51,261	3,695	2,038	7.21%	55.16%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	38,019	2,167	1,499	5.70%	69.17%
Rice University Houston, TX	31,443	2,730	1,203	8.68%	44.07%
Stanford University Stanford, CA	56,378	2,075	1,736	3.68%	83.66%
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	149,801	12,845	6,462	8.57%	50.31%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	37,522	2,039	1,729	5.43%	84.80%
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	26,509	3,421	2,037	12.91%	59.54%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	54,588	3,549	2,409	6.50%	67.88%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	46,377	3,093	1,619	6.67%	52.34%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	32,014	3,764	1,813	11.76%	48.17%
Yale University New Haven, CT	50,060	2,289	1,554	4.57%	67.89%
Average	49,125	3,165	1,906	6.44%	60.24%

*The admission data is updated with academic year 2022-2023 data from National Center For Education Statistics (September 2, 2023).

**Information is not available for schools that are not appeared in the table. The schools have not report the information to the IPEDS or not applicable.)

Top-20-us-colleges with Outstanding Admission Stats

Tightest Schools (Lowest Acceptance Rates)

Harvard University 3.24%
Stanford University 3.68%
California Institute of Technology 2.69%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.96%
Brown University 5.06%

Favored Schools (Highest Admission Yield)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 84.97%
University of Chicago 84.80%
Harvard University 82.96%
Stanford University 83.66%
Princeton University 69.17%