Tightest New York Colleges to Get In

Tightest New York Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) New York colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Columbia University in the City of New York has the lowest acceptance rate as of 4.13% for academic year 2021-2022 in New York. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 100 new students (freshmen).

The following table shows the schools that have low acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the highest acceptance rates in New York.

Tightest New York Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Columbia University in the City of New York Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	4.13%	61,110	2,524	1,641	65.02%
2	The Juilliard School Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	7.43%	2,342	174	110	63.22%
3	Cornell University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsIthaca, NY	8.69%	67,380	5,852	3,718	63.53%
4	United States Military Academy Public, four-yearsWest Point, NY	10.66%	13,955	1,488	1,201	80.71%
5	Barnard College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	11.47%	10,395	1,192	769	64.51%
6	New York University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	12.96%	95,517	12,380	6,097	49.25%
7	Hamilton College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClinton, NY	14.07%	9,380	1,320	533	40.38%
8	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	14.68%	2,678	393	210	53.44%
9	Colgate University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHamilton, NY	17.19%	17,540	3,015	887	29.42%
10	Vassar College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPoughkeepsie, NY	20.15%	10,884	2,193	679	30.96%

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