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% 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), four-yearsStanford, CA	4%	55,471	2,219	1,775	79.99%
2	University of California-Los Angeles Public, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	11%	139,489	15,344	6,751	44.00%
3	University of Southern California Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	13%	71,031	9,234	3,786	41.00%
4	University of California-Berkeley Public, four-yearsBerkeley, CA	14%	112,843	15,798	6,793	43.00%
5	University of California-Irvine Public, four-yearsIrvine, CA	29%	107,950	31,306	6,574	21.00%
6	University of California-Santa Barbara Public, four-yearsSanta Barbara, CA	29%	105,641	30,636	4,902	16.00%
7	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Public, four-yearsSan Luis Obispo, CA	33%	54,570	18,008	4,862	27.00%
8	University of California-San Diego Public, four-yearsLa Jolla, CA	34%	118,386	40,251	7,648	19.00%
9	San Diego State University Public, four-yearsSan Diego, CA	38%	67,660	25,711	5,399	21.00%
10	Loyola Marymount University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	46%	19,045	8,761	1,577	18.00%

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Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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