Top 20 US Colleges 2021 Acceptance Rate Comparison

For academic year 2020-2021, the average acceptance rate for Top 20 US Colleges is 9.62% and admission yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 51.47% where total 735,504 people have applied, 70,786 admitted, and 36,437 students have enrolled one of schools of Top 20 US Colleges finally. Harvard University is the tightest school to admit with 5.01% acceptance rate and Stanford University has the second lowest acceptance rate of 5.19%. Below table summarizes and compares the acceptance rate and other admission statistics. You want to click a column name to sort table by the column.

Top 20 US Colleges 2021 Acceptance Rate Comparison

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2021 Acceptance Rates & Admission Statistics Comparison Table
School Name	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Admission Yield
Brown University Providence, RI	36,793	2,822	1,756	7.67%	62.23%
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	8,007	536	225	6.69%	41.98%
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	40,462	2,695	1,521	6.66%	56.44%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	51,500	5,514	3,249	10.71%	58.92%
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	21,392	1,972	1,057	9.22%	53.60%
Duke University Durham, NC	39,639	3,068	1,580	7.74%	51.50%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	40,248	2,015	1,407	5.01%	69.83%
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	30,115	3,330	1,405	11.06%	42.19%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	20,075	1,457	1,070	7.26%	73.44%
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	39,263	3,654	1,901	9.31%	52.03%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	32,835	1,848	1,154	5.63%	62.45%
Rice University Houston, TX	23,455	2,555	993	10.89%	38.86%
Stanford University Stanford, CA	45,227	2,349	1,606	5.19%	68.37%
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	108,870	15,602	6,386	14.33%	40.93%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	34,350	2,510	1,847	7.31%	73.59%
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	21,253	4,035	2,193	18.99%	54.35%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	42,205	3,789	2,321	8.98%	61.26%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	36,646	4,259	1,698	11.62%	39.87%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	27,949	4,477	1,804	16.02%	40.29%
Yale University New Haven, CT	35,220	2,299	1,264	6.53%	54.98%
Average	36,775	3,539	1,822	9.62%	51.47%

*The tuition data is updated with academic year 2020-2021 data from National Center For Education Statistics (March 2, 2021),U.S. Department of Education.

**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.)