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. Minerva University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 1.02% for academic year 2021-2022 in California. 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 in California.
Name | Acceptance Rate | # of Applicants | # of Admitted | # of Enrolled | Yield | |
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1 | Minerva UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Francisco, CA | 1.02% | 25,026 | 256 | 186 | 72.66% |
2 | California Institute of TechnologyPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsPasadena, CA | 3.92% | 13,026 | 510 | 270 | 52.94% |
3 | Stanford UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA | 3.95% | 55,471 | 2,190 | 1,757 | 80.23% |
4 | Pomona CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA | 6.64% | 11,620 | 771 | 451 | 58.50% |
5 | Harvey Mudd CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA | 9.99% | 4,737 | 473 | 225 | 47.57% |
6 | Stanbridge UniversityPrivate (for-profit), four-yearsIrvine, CA | 10.50% | 1,648 | 173 | 161 | 93.06% |
7 | University of California-Los AngelesPublic, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA | 10.77% | 139,489 | 15,028 | 6,584 | 43.81% |
8 | Claremont McKenna CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA | 11.24% | 5,632 | 633 | 358 | 56.56% |
9 | University of Southern CaliforniaPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA | 12.51% | 71,031 | 8,884 | 3,668 | 41.29% |
10 | University of California-BerkeleyPublic, four-yearsBerkeley, CA | 14.44% | 112,843 | 16,295 | 6,931 | 42.53% |
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