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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 3.95% for academic year 2021-2022 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 (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Stanford University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA	3.95%	55,471	2,190	1,757	80.23%
2	Harvard University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	4.01%	57,786	2,318	1,951	84.17%
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA	4.11%	33,240	1,365	1,177	86.23%
4	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%
5	Princeton University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPrinceton, NJ	4.38%	37,601	1,647	1,290	78.32%
6	Yale University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Haven, CT	5.31%	47,240	2,509	1,786	71.18%
7	Brown University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsProvidence, RI	5.51%	46,568	2,568	1,705	66.39%
8	University of Pennsylvania Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPhiladelphia, PA	5.87%	56,332	3,304	2,418	73.18%
9	Duke University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDurham, NC	5.89%	49,703	2,927	1,744	59.58%
10	Dartmouth College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHanover, NH	6.17%	28,356	1,750	1,221	69.77%

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