US News Top 100 colleges with lowest acceptance rate (Fall 2014)

Fall 2015 marked the first time ever that Stanford has lower acceptance rate than Harvard but a higher yield ratio (which measures the percentage of students choosing to attend after acceptance). Harvard held the highest yield ratio for many many years and it has now lost.

Will the gap widen even more in 2016? Very likely.

For private colleges, an acceptance rate <= ~15% is considered very competitive. 15~30% as competitive.

For state Us, a rate <= ~30% is considered very competitive.

 

School	Fall 2014 acceptance rate
Curtis Institute of Music  Philadelphia, PA	4.8%
Stanford University  Stanford, CA	5.1%
Harvard University  Cambridge, MA	6%
Yale University  New Haven, CT	6.3%
Columbia University  New York, NY	7%
Alice Lloyd College  Pippa Passes, KY	7.1%
Princeton University  Princeton, NJ	7.4%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Cambridge, MA	7.9%
United States Naval Academy  Annapolis, MD	7.9%
College of the Ozarks  Point Lookout, MO	8.3%
Juilliard School  New York, NY	8.4%
Brown University  Providence, RI	8.7%
California Institute of Technology  Pasadena, CA	8.8%
University of Chicago  Chicago, IL	8.8%
United States Military Academy  West Point, NY	9.5%
University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA	10.4%
Claremont McKenna College  Claremont, CA	10.8%
Duke University  Durham, NC	11.4%
Dartmouth College  Hanover, NH	11.5%
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering  Needham, MA	12%
Pomona College  Claremont, CA	12.2%
Pitzer College  Claremont, CA	13%
Northwestern University  Evanston, IL	13.1%
Vanderbilt University  Nashville, TN	13.1%
Amherst College  Amherst, MA	13.8%

Cornell University  Ithaca, NY	14.2%
Harvey Mudd College  Claremont, CA	14.3%
Bowdoin College  Brunswick, ME	14.9%
Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore, MD	15%
Cooper Union  New York, NY	15.1%
Rice University  Houston, TX	15.1%
University of California—?Berkeley  Berkeley, CA	16%
Mississippi Valley State University  Itta Bena, MS	16.3%
United States Air Force Academy  USAF Academy, CO	16.6%
Swarthmore College  Swarthmore, PA	17%
Washington University in St. Louis  St. Louis, MO	17.1%
Middlebury College  Middlebury, VT	17.2%
Tufts University  Medford, MA	17.3%
Georgetown University  Washington, DC	17.4%
Rust College  Holly Springs, MS	17.5%
Colorado College  Colorado Springs, CO	17.9%
University of Southern California  Los Angeles, CA	18%
United States Coast Guard Academy  New London, CT	18.1%
University of California—?Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA	18.6%
Williams College  Williamstown, MA	19.3%
Washington and Lee University  Lexington, VA	19.6%
Liberty University  Lynchburg, VA	20.2%
Florida Memorial University  Miami, FL	20.5%
University of Notre Dame  Notre Dame, IN	21.1%
Davidson College  Davidson, NC	21.7%

Missouri Valley College  Marshall, MO	22.2%
United States Merchant Marine Academy  Kings Point, NY	22.3%
Carleton College  Northfield, MN	22.8%
Vassar College  Poughkeepsie, NY	23.5%
Barnard College  New York, NY	23.8%
Wesleyan University  Middletown, CT	23.9%
Fort Valley State University  Fort Valley, GA	24.2%
Art Academy of Cincinnati  Cincinnati, OH	24.3%
Robert Morris University  Chicago, IL	24.3%
Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA	24.6%
Haverford College  Haverford, PA	24.7%
Kenyon College  Gambier, OH	25.1%
Bates College  Lewiston, ME	25.4%
Jackson State University  Jackson, MS	26.1%
Colgate University  Hamilton, NY	26.2%
Warner University  Lake Wales, FL	26.2%
Babson College  Babson Park, MA	26.3%
Hamilton College  Clinton, NY	26.4%
Emory University  Atlanta, GA	26.8%
Lincoln University  Lincoln University, PA	27.1%
Edward Waters College  Jacksonville, FL	27.3%
Scripps College  Claremont, CA	27.3%
California Institute of the Arts  Valencia, CA	27.7%
New England Conservatory of Music 1 Boston, MA	27.8% 4
CUNY—?Baruch College  New York, NY Grinnell College  Grinnell, IA 28% Tulane University  New Orleans, LA 28% Colby College  Waterville, ME 28.1% College of New Rochelle  New Rochelle, NY 28.5% University of North Carolina—?Chapel Hill  Chapel Hill, NC 28.5% CUNY—?Lehman College  Bronx, NY 28.9% University of Virginia  Charlottesville, VA 29% Hampton University  Hampton, VA 29.1% Lafayette College  Easton, PA 29.8% Chicago State University  Chicago, IL 30% Calumet College of St. Joseph  Whiting, IN 30.3% Wellesley College  Wellesley, MA 30.4% Bucknell University  Lewisburg, PA 30.7% California Polytechnic State University—?San Luis Obispo  San Luis Obispo, CA 30.9% Hope International University  Fullerton, CA 30.9% Wilson College  Chambersburg, PA 31.3% Southwestern Adventist University 1 Keene, TX 31.5% 4 University of Richmond  Univ. of Richmond, VA 31.8% Northeastern University  Boston, MA 32.2% University of Michigan—?Ann Arbor  Ann Arbor, MI 32.2% Ohio Valley University  Vienna, WV 32.4% Oberlin College  Oberlin, OH 32.7% College of William and Mary  Williamsburg, VA 33% Trinity College  Hartford, CT 33% Webb Institute  Glen Cove, NY 33%	27.9%