Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate
The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) California colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Minerva University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 1% for academic year 2022-2023 in California. 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 California.
Name | Acceptance Rate | # of Applicants | # of Admitted | # of Enrolled | Yield | |
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1 | Minerva University | 1% | 20,816 | 208 | 150 | 72.12% |
2 | California Institute of Technology | 2.69% | 16,626 | 448 | 224 | 50.00% |
3 | Stanford University | 3.68% | 56,378 | 2,075 | 1,736 | 83.66% |
4 | Pomona College | 7.02% | 10,666 | 749 | 413 | 55.14% |
5 | University of California-Los Angeles | 8.57% | 149,801 | 12,845 | 6,462 | 50.31% |
6 | Stanbridge University | 10.12% | 2,500 | 253 | 233 | 92.09% |
7 | Claremont McKenna College | 10.35% | 5,709 | 591 | 322 | 54.48% |
8 | University of California-Berkeley | 11.33% | 128,209 | 14,523 | 6,728 | 46.33% |
9 | University of Southern California | 12.02% | 69,062 | 8,304 | 3,420 | 41.18% |
10 | Harvey Mudd College | 13.36% | 4,440 | 593 | 237 | 39.97% |
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