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Browse colleges by acceptance rate, selectivity, and SAT/ACT percentiles.
| # | College | Acceptance | Selectivity | SAT (25–75) | ACT (25–75) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Princeton University | 3.98% | Most Selective | 1470 – 1560 | 33 – 35 |
| #2 | Columbia University | 3.66% | Most Selective | 1510 – 1560 | 34 – 35 |
| #2 | Harvard College | 3.43% | Most Selective | 1460 – 1580 | 33 – 35 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 4.03% | Most Selective | 1510 – 1570 | 34 – 36 |
| #5 | Yale University | 4.62% | Most Selective | 1470 – 1560 | 33 – 35 |
| #6 | Stanford University | 5.2% | Most Selective | 1420 – 1550 | 31 – 35 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 6.5% | Most Selective | 1510 – 1560 | 33 – 35 |
| #8 | University of Pennsylvania | 5.9% | Most Selective | 1490 – 1560 | 35 – 36 |
| #9 | California Institute of Technology | 6.7% | Most Selective | 1510 – 1570 | 35 – 36 |
| #9 | Duke University | 7.8% | Most Selective | 1480 – 1560 | 34 – 35 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 9% | Most Selective | 1500 – 1550 | 34 – 35 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 9.3% | Most Selective | 1430 – 1540 | 33 – 35 |
| #13 | Dartmouth College | 6.17% | Most Selective | 1430 – 1550 | 32 – 35 |
| #14 | Vanderbilt University | 11.6% | Most Selective | 1470 – 1570 | 33 – 35 |
| #14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 16% | Most Selective | 1480 – 1560 | 33 – 35 |
| #14 | Brown University | 5.45% | Most Selective | 1440 – 1550 | 33 – 35 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 8.71% | Most Selective | 1410 – 1530 | 32 – 35 |
| #17 | Rice University | 10.9% | Most Selective | 1460 – 1570 | 34 – 36 |
| #19 | University of Notre Dame | 15.1% | Most Selective | 1410 – 1550 | 32 – 35 |
| #20 | University of California - Los Angeles | 12.3% | Most Selective | 1290 – 1510 | 27 – 34 |
| #21 | Emory University | 19.2% | Most Selective | 1400 – 1510 | 31 – 34 |
| #22 | University of California - Berkeley | 17.5% | Most Selective | 1300 – 1520 | 27 – 35 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 16.8% | Most Selective | 1380 – 1530 | 31 – 35 |
| #23 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | 26% | Very Selective | 1340 – 1520 | 31 – 34 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 22.6% | Very Selective | 1330 – 1490 | 30 – 34 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 17.3% | Most Selective | 1460 – 1560 | 33 – 35 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 16.1% | Most Selective | 1360 – 1510 | 30 – 34 |
| #28 | New York University | 21.1% | Very Selective | 1390 – 1510 | 31 – 34 |
| #28 | University of California - Santa Barbara | 36.7% | Selective | 1250 – 1450 | 26 – 33 |
| #28 | Wake Forest University | 32% | Very Selective | 1300 – 1460 | 30 – 33 |
| #28 | University of Florida | 28.3% | Very Selective | 1330 – 1470 | 30 – 34 |
| #28 | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | 23.5% | Very Selective | 1270 – 1460 | 27 – 33 |
| #28 | Tufts University | 16.3% | Most Selective | 1400 – 1510 | 32 – 35 |
| #34 | University of Rochester | 35.4% | Selective | 1330 – 1510 | 30 – 34 |
| #34 | University of California - San Diego | 38.3% | Selective | 1280 – 1460 | 26 – 33 |
| #36 | Boston College | 19% | Most Selective | 1460 – 1540 | 33 – 35 |
| #36 | University of California - Irvine | 29.9% | Very Selective | 1240 – 1410 | 25 – 31 |
| #38 | University of California - Davis | 46.3% | Selective | 1160 – 1370 | 25 – 31 |
| #38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 21.3% | Very Selective | 1380 – 1520 | 31 – 35 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 31.8% | Very Selective | 1240 – 1470 | 27 – 33 |
| #38 | William & Mary | 36.5% | Very Selective | 1360 – 1520 | 31 – 34 |
| #42 | Brandeis University | 33.4% | Very Selective | 1350 – 1470 | 31 – 33 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 11.1% | Most Selective | 1360 – 1470 | 30 – 33 |
| #42 | Boston University | 20.1% | Very Selective | 1310 – 1500 | 30 – 34 |
| #42 | Case Western Reserve University | 30.3% | Very Selective | 1350 – 1490 | 31 – 34 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 57.2% | Evaluative | 1300 – 1440 | 27 – 32 |
| #47 | University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | 63.3% | Evaluative | 1220 – 1450 | 27 – 33 |
| #48 | University of Georgia | 48.3% | Selective | 1220 – 1390 | 27 – 32 |
| #49 | Pepperdine University | 41.9% | Selective | 1210 – 1390 | 26 – 31 |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 49.5% | Selective | 1280 – 1420 | 29 – 33 |
| #49 | Ohio State University - Columbus | 68.5% | Evaluative | 1230 – 1390 | 26 – 32 |
| #49 | Villanova University | 30.7% | Very Selective | 1320 – 1460 | 30 – 33 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 18.4% | Most Selective | 1440 – 1530 | 33 – 35 |
| #49 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | 67.1% | Evaluative | 1190 – 1430 | 25 – 33 |
| #55 | Florida State University | 32.5% | Very Selective | 1230 – 1350 | 27 – 31 |
| #55 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 57% | Evaluative | 1300 – 1500 | 29 – 34 |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 50.7% | Evaluative | 1280 – 1430 | 28 – 32 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 33.1% | Very Selective | 1260 – 1400 | 28 – 32 |
| #59 | University of Washington | 32.3% | Very Selective | 1220 – 1430 | 27 – 33 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 49.9% | Selective | 1180 – 1380 | 26 – 30 |
| #59 | University of Maryland - College Park | 51% | Evaluative | 1290 – 1460 | 29 – 34 |
| #59 | University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus | 63.9% | Evaluative | 1243 – 1420 | 28 – 32 |
| #63 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 59% | Evaluative | 1320 – 1450 | 29 – 33 |
| #63 | University of Connecticut | 56.1% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1390 | 27 – 32 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 43% | Selective | 1290 – 1430 | 29 – 33 |
| #63 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 54.2% | Evaluative | 1150 – 1340 | 25 – 30 |
| #63 | Rutgers University - New Brunswick | 66.9% | Evaluative | 1180 – 1410 | 25 – 32 |
| #68 | Texas A&M University | 63% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1380 | 26 – 32 |
| #68 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | 65.3% | Evaluative | 1210 – 1370 | 27 – 32 |
| #68 | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | 69.6% | Evaluative | 1260 – 1430 | 25 – 31 |
| #68 | Fordham University | 45.9% | Selective | 1240 – 1450 | 28 – 32 |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 52.7% | Evaluative | 1250 – 1440 | 29 – 33 |
| #68 | Indiana University - Bloomington | 85% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1370 | 26 – 32 |
| #68 | Yeshiva University | 67.4% | Evaluative | 1160 – 1410 | 24 – 31 |
| #75 | Clemson University | 61.9% | Evaluative | 1230 – 1380 | 27 – 32 |
| #75 | Baylor University | 68.5% | Evaluative | 1200 – 1350 | 26 – 31 |
| #75 | Loyola Marymount University | 45.8% | Selective | 1260 – 1410 | 28 – 32 |
| #75 | Virginia Tech | 65.8% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1370 | 25 – 31 |
| #79 | American University | 38.7% | Selective | 1220 – 1390 | 27 – 32 |
| #79 | Brigham Young University - Provo | 69.3% | Evaluative | 1210 – 1400 | 26 – 32 |
| #79 | North Carolina State University | 46% | Selective | 1250 – 1400 | 27 – 32 |
| #79 | Gonzaga University | 76.2% | Evaluative | 1230 – 1378 | 27 – 31 |
| #83 | Binghamton University - SUNY | 43% | Selective | 1320 – 1440 | 29 – 32 |
| #83 | Marquette University | 86.3% | Evaluative | 1200 – 1350 | 25 – 30 |
| #83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 53% | Evaluative | 1320 – 1480 | 28 – 33 |
| #83 | Elon University | 71.7% | Evaluative | 1160 – 1310 | 25 – 30 |
| #83 | Howard University | 38.6% | Selective | 1140 – 1260 | 22 – 26 |
| #83 | Texas Christian University | 53.6% | Evaluative | 1140 – 1345 | 26 – 31 |
| #83 | University of California - Riverside | 66.3% | Evaluative | 1080 – 1280 | 22 – 29 |
| #83 | University of Iowa | 84.3% | Evaluative | 1130 – 1310 | 22 – 29 |
| #83 | Colorado School of Mines | 55% | Evaluative | 1280 – 1430 | 28 – 33 |
| #83 | Michigan State University | 76.3% | Evaluative | 1110 – 1280 | 23 – 29 |
| #93 | University of California - Merced | 84.8% | Evaluative | 950 – 1140 | 17 – 22 |
| #93 | University of Denver | 60.7% | Evaluative | 1180 – 1350 | 26 – 31 |
| #93 | Stony Brook University - SUNY | 48.9% | Selective | 1240 – 1420 | 26 – 32 |
| #93 | University at Buffalo - SUNY | 67% | Evaluative | 1140 – 1310 | 23 – 29 |
| #93 | University of San Diego | 58.7% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1340 | 25 – 31 |
| #93 | University of Delaware | 63.1% | Evaluative | 1170 – 1340 | 25 – 30 |
| #99 | University of Colorado Boulder | 84% | Evaluative | 1140 – 1340 | 24 – 31 |
| #99 | University of Oregon | 83.4% | Evaluative | 1080 – 1270 | 22 – 29 |
| #99 | Auburn University | 71.2% | Evaluative | 1180 – 1330 | 24 – 30 |
| #99 | University of Utah | 62% | Evaluative | 1150 – 1370 | 22 – 29 |
| #103 | Clark University | 48% | Selective | 1220 – 1380 | 27 – 30 |
| #103 | University of South Florida | 42.7% | Selective | 1180 – 1310 | 25 – 29 |
| #148 | University of Central Florida | 44.4% | Selective | 1170 – 1340 | 25 – 30 |
Figures are a static snapshot and may not reflect the most recent admissions cycle. Always confirm acceptance rates and test-score ranges with each college’s official admissions office or Common Data Set.