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Tightest Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) U.S. 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 United States. 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.

Tightest Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Minerva University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Francisco, CA	1%	20,816	208	150	72.12%
2	California Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPasadena, CA	2.69%	16,626	448	224	50.00%
3	Harvard University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	3.24%	61,221	1,984	1,646	82.96%
4	Stanford University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA	3.68%	56,378	2,075	1,736	83.66%
5	Columbia University in the City of New York Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	3.95%	60,879	2,404	1,540	64.06%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	3.96%	33,767	1,337	1,136	84.97%
7	Yale University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Haven, CT	4.57%	50,060	2,289	1,554	67.89%
8	Brown University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsProvidence, RI	5.06%	50,649	2,562	1,717	67.02%
9	University of Chicago Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL	5.43%	37,522	2,039	1,729	84.80%
10	Princeton University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPrinceton, NJ	5.70%	38,019	2,167	1,499	69.17%

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