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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. Stanford University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 5.19% for academic year 2019-2020 in United States. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 1,000 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 (2019-2020)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Stanford University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA	5.19%	45,227	2,349	1,606	68.37%
2	Harvard University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	5.01%	40,248	2,015	1,407	69.83%
3	Princeton University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPrinceton, NJ	5.63%	32,835	1,848	1,154	62.45%
4	University of Chicago Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL	7.31%	34,350	2,510	1,847	73.59%
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	7.26%	20,075	1,457	1,070	73.44%
6	Columbia University in the City of New York Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew York, NY	6.66%	40,462	2,695	1,521	56.44%
7	Yale University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Haven, CT	6.53%	35,220	2,299	1,264	54.98%
8	Duke University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDurham, NC	7.74%	39,639	3,068	1,580	51.50%
9	Brown University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsProvidence, RI	7.67%	36,793	2,822	1,756	62.23%
10	United States Naval Academy Public, four-yearsAnnapolis, MD	9.08%	15,699	1,426	1,194	83.73%

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