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 6.50% for academic year 2022-2023 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 (2022-2023)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	University of Pennsylvania Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPhiladelphia, PA	6.50%	54,588	3,549	2,409	67.88%
2	Swarthmore College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSwarthmore, PA	6.93%	14,707	1,019	433	42.49%
3	Carnegie Mellon University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPittsburgh, PA	11.30%	34,261	3,873	1,716	44.31%
4	Haverford College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHaverford, PA	14.21%	5,657	804	362	45.02%
5	Villanova University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsVillanova, PA	23.39%	23,835	5,576	1,779	31.90%
6	Bryn Mawr College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBryn Mawr, PA	30.75%	3,594	1,105	396	35.84%
7	Bucknell University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLewisburg, PA	32.55%	11,707	3,811	1,034	27.13%
8	Lafayette College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEaston, PA	33.63%	10,500	3,531	757	21.44%
9	Central Penn College Private (for-profit), four-yearsSummerdale, PA	33.99%	709	241	144	59.75%
10	Dickinson College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCarlisle, PA	34.92%	8,261	2,885	577	20.00%

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Tightest Pennsylvania Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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