Most Selective Colleges
The hardest colleges in America to get into, by acceptance rate.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA · Private nonprofit
- $16,075
- Net price
- 3%
- Admit rate
- 987
- Enrolled
Minerva University
San Francisco, CA · Private nonprofit
- —
- Net price
- 3%
- Admit rate
- 637
- Enrolled
Stanford University
Stanford, CA · Private nonprofit
- $13,807
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 7,554
- Enrolled
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit
- $19,066
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 7,601
- Enrolled
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Private nonprofit
- $23,777
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 6,758
- Enrolled
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY · Private nonprofit
- $21,590
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 8,973
- Enrolled
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private nonprofit
- $14,860
- Net price
- 4%
- Admit rate
- 7,569
- Enrolled
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit
- $20,111
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 4,535
- Enrolled
Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA · Private nonprofit
- —
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 109
- Enrolled
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · Private nonprofit
- $6,128
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 5,709
- Enrolled
Northeastern University
Boston, MA · Private nonprofit
- $30,915
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 17,326
- Enrolled
Brown University
Providence, RI · Private nonprofit
- $25,184
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 7,226
- Enrolled
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH · Private nonprofit
- $29,519
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 4,541
- Enrolled
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Private nonprofit
- $28,699
- Net price
- 5%
- Admit rate
- 10,650
- Enrolled
Duke University
Durham, NC · Private nonprofit
- $29,612
- Net price
- 6%
- Admit rate
- 6,442
- Enrolled
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN · Private nonprofit
- $15,846
- Net price
- 6%
- Admit rate
- 7,208
- Enrolled
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD · Private nonprofit
- $18,809
- Net price
- 6%
- Admit rate
- 5,693
- Enrolled
Colby College
Waterville, ME · Private nonprofit
- $17,180
- Net price
- 7%
- Admit rate
- 2,407
- Enrolled
Pomona College
Claremont, CA · Private nonprofit
- $19,285
- Net price
- 7%
- Admit rate
- 1,666
- Enrolled
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME · Private nonprofit
- $14,398
- Net price
- 7%
- Admit rate
- 1,873
- Enrolled
Washington University of Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA · Private for-profit
- —
- Net price
- 7%
- Admit rate
- 400
- Enrolled
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA · Private nonprofit
- $23,149
- Net price
- 7%
- Admit rate
- 1,613
- Enrolled
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL · Private nonprofit
- $29,167
- Net price
- 8%
- Admit rate
- 9,201
- Enrolled
Rice University
Houston, TX · Private nonprofit
- $13,370
- Net price
- 8%
- Admit rate
- 4,776
- Enrolled