Each year, Niche**, known as the "American College Public Review", will analyze the difficulty of admission to American colleges and universities according to the college acceptance rate and freshman standardized scores.
Recently, the ** has been updatedRanking of the hardest universities in the US to get into 2024The list includes many well-known comprehensive universities and liberal arts colleges.
The rankings are based on the latest acceptance rates published by major U.S. colleges and universities, as well as the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. Department of Educations.Department of Education).
The ranking reference indicators are as follows:
Niché compares comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and arts** colleges together, so you can see the overall difficulty of applying to each type of school.
1.University of Minerva
Acceptance Rate: 1%.
SAT Score Range:-
ACT Score Range: -
2.California Institute of Technology
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1530-1580
ACT score range: 35-36
3.Stanford University
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1470-1570
ACT score range: 34-35
4.Harvard University
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1480-1580
ACT score range: 33-36
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1510-1580
ACT score range: 34-36
6.Columbia University
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1470-1570
ACT score range: 34-35
7.Princeton University
Acceptance Rate: 4%.
SAT score range: 1460-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
8.Yale University
Acceptance Rate: 5%.
SAT score range: 1480-1580
ACT score range: 33-35
9.Brown University
Acceptance Rate: 6%.
SAT score range: 1460-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
10.University of Pennsylvania
Acceptance Rate: 6%.
SAT score range: 1480-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
11.Duke University
Acceptance Rate: 6%.
SAT score range: 1470-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
12.Dartmouth College
Acceptance Rate: 6%.
SAT score range: 1440-1560
ACT score range: 33-35
13.University of Chicago
Acceptance Rate: 6%.
SAT score range: 1510-1580
ACT score range: 33-35
14.Pomona College
Acceptance Rate: 7%.
SAT score range: 1470-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
15.Northwestern University
Acceptance Rate: 7%.
SAT score range: 1470-1570
ACT score range: 34-35
16.Vanderbilt University
Acceptance Rate: 7%.
SAT score range: 1480-1570
ACT score range: 34-35
17.Johns Hopkins University
Acceptance Rate: 8%.
SAT score range: 1470-1560
ACT score range: 34-36
18.Swarthmore College
Acceptance Rate: 8%.
SAT score range: 1430-1560
ACT score range: 33-35
19.U.S. Naval Academy
Acceptance Rate: 8%.
SAT score range: 1200-1420
ACT score range: 26-32
20.Cornell University
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1450-1560
ACT score range: 33-35
21.Amherst College
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1370-1550
ACT score range: 32-34
22.Bowdoin College
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1360-1510
ACT score range: 31-33
23.Williams College
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1410-1550
ACT score range: 32-35
24.Colby College
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1400-1530
ACT score range: 32-34
25.Rice University
Acceptance Rate: 9%.
SAT score range: 1490-1570
ACT score range: 34-35
26.Tulane University
Acceptance Rate: 10%.
SAT score range: 1360-1510
ACT score range: 30-33
27.Harvey Mudd College
Acceptance Rate: 10%.
SAT score range: 1480-1560
ACT score range: 34-36
28. stanbridge university - orange county
Acceptance Rate: 10%.
SAT Score Range:-
ACT Score Range: -
29.Grinnell College
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT score range: 1370-1530
ACT score range: 30-34
30.United States Military Academy at West Point
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT score range: 1200-1440
ACT score range: 28-33
31.University of California, Los Angeles
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT Score Range:-
ACT Score Range: -
32.Claremont McKenna College
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT score range: 1420-1530
ACT score range: 32-35
33.Tufts University
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT score range: 1440-1550
ACT score range: 33-35
34.Barnard College
Acceptance Rate: 11%.
SAT score range: 1380-1550
ACT score range: 32-34
35.Georgetown University
Acceptance Rate: 12%.
SAT score range: 1410-1550
ACT score range: 32-35
36.University of St Andrews - North Carolina
Acceptance Rate: 12%.
SAT score range: 780-1150
ACT score range: 15-24
37.U.S. Air Force Academy
Acceptance Rate: 12%.
SAT score range: 1210-1490
ACT score range: 29-34
38.University of Southern California
Acceptance Rate: 13%.
SAT score range: 1410-1540
ACT score range: 32-35
39.New York University
Acceptance Rate: 13%.
SAT score range: 1450-1570
ACT score range: 32-35
40.Washington University in St. Louis
Acceptance Rate: 13%.
SAT score range: 1490-1570
ACT score range: 33-35
41.Emory University
Acceptance Rate: 13%.
SAT score range: 1420-1540
ACT score range: 32-34
42.Centennial College
Acceptance Rate: 13%.
SAT score range: 1380-1530
ACT score range: 32-34
43.Carnegie Mellon University
Acceptance Rate: 14%.
SAT score range: 1480-1560
ACT score range: 33-35
44.Hamilton College
Acceptance Rate: 14%.
SAT score range: 1410-1540
ACT score range: 33-35
45.Colorado College
Acceptance Rate: 14%.
SAT Score Range:-
ACT Score Range: -
46.University of California, Berkeley
Acceptance Rate: 14%.
SAT score range: 1310-1530
ACT score range: 30-35
47.Cooper Alliance for the Advancement of Science and the Arts
Acceptance Rate: 15%.
SAT score range: 1330-1500
ACT score range: 30-34
48.University of Notre Dame
Acceptance Rate: 15%.
SAT score range: 1410-1550
ACT score range: 32-35
49.Georgia Institute of Technology
Acceptance Rate: 16%.
SAT score range: 1310-1500
ACT score range: 30-34
50.Wellesley College
Acceptance Rate: 16%.
SAT score range: 1400-1540
ACT score range: 31-34