Tightest Pennsylvania Colleges to Get In

Tightest Pennsylvania Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Pennsylvania colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. University of Pennsylvania has the lowest acceptance rate as of 5.87% for academic year 2021-2022 in Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania.

Tightest Pennsylvania Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	University of Pennsylvania Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPhiladelphia, PA	5.87%	56,332	3,304	2,418	73.18%
2	Swarthmore College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSwarthmore, PA	7.79%	13,012	1,013	454	44.82%
3	Carnegie Mellon University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPittsburgh, PA	13.54%	32,896	4,453	1,896	42.58%
4	Haverford College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHaverford, PA	17.84%	5,332	951	411	43.22%
5	Villanova University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsVillanova, PA	25.24%	24,410	6,162	1,772	28.76%
6	Bucknell University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLewisburg, PA	34.50%	11,263	3,886	1,027	26.43%
7	Franklin and Marshall College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLancaster, PA	37.54%	7,720	2,898	510	17.60%
8	Bryn Mawr College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBryn Mawr, PA	39.34%	3,391	1,334	422	31.63%
9	Lafayette College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEaston, PA	40.74%	8,262	3,366	782	23.23%
10	Lehigh University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBethlehem, PA	45.97%	14,107	6,485	1,519	23.42%

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Tightest Pennsylvania Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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