Best Forbes Top 25 Schools 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

For the academic year 2022-2023, the average acceptance rate for Best Forbes Top 25 Schools is 6.24% and yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 60.80%. A total of 750,887 have applied, 46,884 admitted, and 28,504 students have enrolled one of Best Forbes Top 25 Schools finally. Harvard University is the tightest school to admit with 3% acceptance rate and California Institute of Technology has the second lowest acceptance rate of 3%.

The average SAT score of Best Forbes Top 25 Schools is 1,521 and the average ACT score is 34. You can compare SAT/ACT scores for Best Forbes Top 25 Schools at Best Forbes Top 25 Schools Test Score Comparison page. The test score and admission stats is based on the 2022-2023 data from NCES. The following table summarizes and compares the acceptance rate and other admission statistics. You can sort the table by clicking/touching the title that you want to sort.

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2023 Acceptance Rates & Admission Statistics Comparison Table
School Name	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Admission Yield
Amherst College Amherst, MA	14,864	1,040	447	7.00%	42.98%
Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	9,376	844	498	9.00%	59.00%
Brown University Providence, RI	50,649	2,532	1,696	5.00%	66.98%
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	16,626	499	250	3.00%	50.10%
Carleton College Northfield, MN	8,583	1,459	540	17.00%	37.01%
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	60,879	2,435	1,558	4.00%	63.98%
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	28,336	1,700	1,054	6.00%	62.00%
Davidson College Davidson, NC	6,479	1,101	539	16.99%	48.96%
Duke University Durham, NC	50,016	3,001	1,651	6.00%	55.01%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	61,221	1,837	1,525	3.00%	83.02%
Haverford College Haverford, PA	5,657	792	356	14.00%	44.95%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	33,767	1,351	1,148	4.00%	84.97%
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	51,261	3,588	1,973	7.00%	54.99%
Pomona College Claremont, CA	10,666	747	411	7.00%	55.02%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	38,019	2,281	1,574	6.00%	69.00%
Stanford University Stanford, CA	56,378	2,255	1,894	4.00%	83.99%
Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	14,707	1,029	432	7.00%	41.98%
Tufts University Medford, MA	34,882	3,488	1,744	10.00%	50.00%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	37,522	1,876	1,595	5.00%	85.02%
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	26,509	3,446	2,068	13.00%	60.01%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	54,588	3,821	2,598	7.00%	67.99%
Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	14,521	2,033	712	14.00%	35.02%
Williams College Williamstown, MA	15,321	1,226	539	8.00%	43.96%
Yale University New Haven, CT	50,060	2,503	1,702	5.00%	68.00%
Average	31,287	1,954	1,188	6.24%	60.80%

*The admission data is updated with academic year 2022-2023 data from National Center For Education Statistics (June 25, 2022).

**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.)

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