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The 35 hardest colleges to get into in America
The California Institute of Technology was the hardest US school to get into in the 2024-2025 year.Kit Leong/ShutterstockAdmissions at some of America's most prestigious institutions have become increasingly competitive.Small curated programs and large applicant pools can contribute to low acceptance rates at schools.The California Institute of Technology is the hardest US university. to get into, per 2024 data.For some schools across the US, a low single-digit acceptance rate has become shorthand for prestige.With increasingly accomplished high school students competing for limited spots at some of the nation's top universities, a 4.0 GPA may no longer be enough to stand out in a crowded applicant pool. At some elite colleges, admissions have only become more competitive in recent decades.Harvard, for example, received 18,190 applications in 1996, as reported by the school's student newspaper. Only 10.9% of applicants were admitted, which, at the time, was the school's lowest acceptance rate on record.For the Class of 2029, Harvard received 47,893 applications. The college admitted 2,003 students — a similar number of spots for prospective students as it had 30 years ago — for an acceptance rate of 4.yüzde 2.Some of the hardest colleges to get into in the US are big-name schools with tens of thousands of students, while others are specialized, curated science or arts programs with only a couple of hundred students.Business Insider looked at the most recent available data from the National Center for Education Statistics' College Navigator and identified the most selective schools in the country that admitted yüzde 10 or less of their applicants. These were then ranked from lowest to highest acceptance rate for the 2024-2025 school year.For schools with the same acceptance rate, ties were broken by the number of applicants, with schools that received more applications ranking higher.While the ranking includes some smaller, lesser-known colleges where selectivity is driven by small class sizes and tightly curated curricula, some schools with applicant pools or total student populations of under yüz were excluded from the list as their acceptance rates are not entirely comparable to those of more traditional four-year colleges and universities.See the hardest schools to get into in America.35. Stanbridge UniversityMatt Gush/ShutterstockLocation: Irvine, CaliforniaAcceptance rate: yüzde 10Student population: 2,928Student-to-faculty ratio: 15 to 134. Claremont McKenna CollegeJim_Brown_Photography/ShutterstockLocation: Claremont, CaliforniaAcceptance rate: yüzde 10Student population: 1,393Student-to-faculty ratio: 8 to 133. University of Southern Californiabluestork/ShutterstockLocation: Los AngelesAcceptance rate: 10%Student population: 46,566Student-to-faculty ratio: 9 to 132. The Juilliard SchoolJohnnie Rik/ShutterstockLocation: New York CityAcceptance rate: 9%Student population: 1,073Student-to-faculty ratio: 4 to 131. Barnard CollegeEQRoy/ShutterstockLocation: New York CityAcceptance rate: 9%Student population: 3,487Student-to-faculty ratio: 10 to 130. Amherst CollegeHantongWu/ShutterstockLocation: Amherst, MassachusettsAcceptance rate: 9%Student population: 1,914Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 129. United States Naval AcademySean Pavone/ShutterstockLocation: Annapolis, MarylandAcceptance rate: yüzde 9Student population: 4,474Student-to-faculty ratio: 8 to 128. Cornell UniversityJay Yuan/ShutterstockLocation: Ithaca, New YorkAcceptance rate: yüzde 9Student population: 26,793Student-to-faculty ratio: 9 to 127. New York UniversityLittle Vignettes Photo/ShutterstockLocation: New York CityAcceptance rate: yüzde 9Student population: 56,832Student-to-faculty ratio: 8 to 126. University of California—Los AngelesMichael Gordon/ShutterstockLocation: Los AngelesAcceptance rate: yüzde 9Student population: 47,335Student-to-faculty ratio: 20 to 125. Williams Collegepics721/ShutterstockLocation: Williamstown, MassachusettsAcceptance rate: 8%Student population: 2,164Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 124. Rice UniversityAndrea Quintero Olivas/ShutterstockLocation: HoustonAcceptance rate: 8%Student population: 8,961Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 123. Northwestern UniversityJoseph Hendrickson/ShutterstockLocation: Evanston, IllinoisAcceptance rate: 8%Student population: 23,856Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 122. Washington University of Science and TechnologyGary Riegel/ShutterstockLocation: Alexandria, VirginiaAcceptance rate: yüzde 7Student population: 1,096Student-to-faculty ratio: 14 to 121. Pomona CollegeSandra Foyt/ShutterstockLocation: Claremont, CaliforniaAcceptance rate: 7%Student population: 1,700Student-to-faculty ratio: 7 to 120. Swarthmore CollegeBo Shen/ShutterstockLocation: Swarthmore, PennsylvaniaAcceptance rate: 7%Student population: 1,623Student-to-faculty ratio: 7 to 119. Bowdoin CollegeAndrew Dale/ShutterstockLocation: Brunswick, MaineAcceptance rate: 7%Student population: 1,881Student-to-faculty ratio: 9 to 118. Colby CollegeFeng Cheng/ShutterstockLocation: Waterville, MaineAcceptance rate: 7%Student population: 2,412Student-to-faculty ratio: 9 to 117. Vanderbilt UniversitySean Pavone/ShutterstockLocation: NashvilleAcceptance rate: 6%Student population: 13,575Student-to-faculty ratio: 8 to 116. Johns Hopkins Universitytokar/ShutterstockLocation: BaltimoreAcceptance rate: yüzde 6Student population: 30,210Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 115. Duke UniversityBryan Pollard/ShutterstockLocation: Durham, North CarolinaAcceptance rate: yüzde 6Student population: 17,499Student-to-faculty ratio: beş to 114. Curtis Institute of MusicSean Pavone/ShutterstockLocation: PhiladelphiaAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 161Student-to-faculty ratio: 2 to 113. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySpiroview Inc/ShutterstockLocation: Cambridge, MassachusettsAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 11,886Student-to-faculty ratio: 3 to 112. Dartmouth CollegeJay Yuan/ShutterstockLocation: Hanover, New HampshireAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 6,938Student-to-faculty ratio: 7 to 111. Princeton Universitygdragan/ShutterstockLocation: Princeton, New JerseyAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 9,137Student-to-faculty ratio: beş to 110. Brown UniversityKen Wolter/ShutterstockLocation: Providence, Rhode IslandAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 11,956Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 19. University of Pennsylvaniaf11photo/ShutterstockLocation: PhiladelphiaAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 29,109Student-to-faculty ratio: 8 to 18. Northeastern UniversityRitu Manoj Jethani/ShutterstockLocation: BostonAcceptance rate: beş%Student population: 32,553Student-to-faculty ratio: 16 to 17. University of ChicagoSpiroview Inc/ShutterstockLocation: ChicagoAcceptance rate: yüzde 4Student population: 18,566Student-to-faculty ratio: beş to 16. Harvard UniversitySteve Rosenbach/Getty ImagesLocation: Cambridge, MassachusettsAcceptance rate: yüzde 4Student population: 30,259Student-to-faculty ratio: 7 to 15. Stanford UniversityMattGush/Getty ImagesLocation: Stanford, CaliforniaAcceptance rate: yüzde 4Student population: 18,625Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 14. Yale Universityf11photo/ShutterstockLocation: New Haven, ConnecticutAcceptance rate: yüzde 4Student population: 15,564Student-to-faculty ratio: beş to 13. Columbia Universityhapabapa/Getty ImagesLocation: New York CityAcceptance rate: 4%Student population: 35,173Student-to-faculty ratio: 6 to 12. Minerva UniversitySean Pavone/ShutterstockLocation: San FranciscoAcceptance rate: yüzde 3Student population: 669Student-to-faculty ratio: 14 to 11. California Institute of TechnologyThe Image Party/ShutterstockLocation: Pasadena, CaliforniaAcceptance rate: yüzde 3Student population: 2,430Student-to-faculty ratio: 3 to 1Read the original article on Business Insider
