Tightest California Colleges to Get In

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. Stanford University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 4.34% for academic year 2019-2020 in California. 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 in California.

Tightest California 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), 4 or more yearsStanford, CA	4.34%	47,498	2,062	1,698	82.35%
2	University of Southern California Private (not-for-profit), 4 or more yearsLos Angeles, CA	11.42%	66,198	7,558	3,168	41.92%
3	University of California-Los Angeles Public, 4 or more yearsLos Angeles, CA	12.32%	111,321	13,720	5,920	43.15%
4	University of California-Berkeley Public, 4 or more yearsBerkeley, CA	16.25%	87,847	14,278	6,455	45.21%
5	University of California-Irvine Public, 4 or more yearsIrvine, CA	26.54%	95,565	25,360	6,069	23.93%
6	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Public, 4 or more yearsSan Luis Obispo, CA	28.42%	54,072	15,366	4,613	30.02%
7	University of California-Santa Barbara Public, 4 or more yearsSanta Barbara, CA	29.56%	93,446	27,626	4,935	17.86%
8	University of California-San Diego Public, 4 or more yearsLa Jolla, CA	31.48%	99,114	31,200	6,015	19.28%
9	San Diego State University Public, 4 or more yearsSan Diego, CA	34.13%	70,048	23,905	5,275	22.07%
10	University of California-Davis Public, 4 or more yearsDavis, CA	38.87%	78,093	30,358	5,957	19.62%

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Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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