Here is last years acceptance rate for private , anybody know public acceptance list ?
1 Stanford 4.3%
2 Harvard 4.6%
3 Princeton 5.5%
4 Columbia 5.5%
5 Yale 6.3%
6 Caltech 6.5%
7 MIT 6.7%
8 Pomona 6.9%
9 Brown 7.2%
10 U Chicago 7.2%
11 Duke 8.3%
12 U Penn 8.4%
13 Northwestern 8.4%
14 Dartmouth 8.7%
15 Swarthmore 9.1%
16 Johns Hopkins 9.9%
17 Cornell 10.3%
18 Bowdoin10.3%
19 Rice 10.8%
20 Williams 12.2%
After my 8th rejection today I can’t even speak English 
anybody can share info about public acceptance rate ?
@aamcgss You previously posted the following results…
“1) mit deffered than rejected
2)UPenn ED rejected
3) uchicago differed than rejected
4) Columbia differed (most likely rejected)”
How did you apply early to both Columbia and Penn? Sorry for your pain so far hopefully better news tomorrow.
Greymeer those are old numbers (class of 2021). OP posted class of 2022.
@Nocreativity1 good question. I’m questbridge finalist (low income high achieving) program lets u to get matched in December ( which means 4 year 100% fa) but if u match it’s binding . I applied for 7 out 40 to choose from . Schools I would be okay to get matched . Columbia was my number 2:) I actually love the “core “ I’m from iB school where you don’t pick and choose what you want to take, you have similar “core “… UPenn because it’s good for premed
That’s what enticed me about questbridge 12 ED s in December . But so far not getting to any of questbridge schools got UMich and UCLA through common , California app . But not thingle school from 11 questbridge schools 
My D is a questbridge scholar as well. You can have all those schools for the match, but you cannot apply early to them all if you weren’t matched- if you ED’d to Penn following the match round, the rest should have been all RD. They don’t defer from the match round, you either match or you don’t… so something seems off.
Correct , UPenn gave me ed after match so did Columbia , I chose UPenn got rejected . In my opinion match schools are kind of “ED” at first glance they did not choose you so u are tacticaly “differed “ . It’s black or white for me . I don’t like gray . If they wanted me they would choose me in December I got literarily differed from MIT and UChicago , so Columbia i just added to the list to simplify my statement, instead of writing a lengthy explanation. Not a lot of people know about questbridge:) so it’s like a white tiny tiny lie congrats to your D . Hope questbridge will work for her . It has not worked for me …If I could go back I would choose common app instead…
My D wasn’t matched either, but we learned after the fact that the schools she chose had the unofficial policy of no matches unless the EFC is zero. Since ours isn’t zero it was kind of a wasted round. She was accepted into a partner school ED though. Good luck with Columbia tomorrow!
My efc was 0 . My gpa was 4.25 sat 1550 . Worked from age 15 .saved money I spent on building schools in underdeveloped countries I hope continue to do in my future . My mom joked my application was a good fit for cnn hero’s or something like that … not for Ivy’s . O well that’s who I’m I would not change anything in my application
There are many more than 20 private schools in the US, you appear to have listed the 20 with the lowest admit rates. What are you looking for to compare to publics? Also the 20 lowest admit rates? Or what, it’s a bit confusing to me what you are actually trying to see?. Of course the other factor is that there is often a very different admit rate for instate vs out of state for publics.
Curiosity:) I can’t find any list here about public . 20 above I copied and pasted from different thread God why school acceptance gets people so hard . Good luck to everybody… humanism goes long way people have bigger problems in the world than Ivy’s and public schools acceptance rate 18 y old curious is not a crime
Sure, being curious is not a crime. But I stil don’t understand exactly what data you’re looking for?
I’m trying to figure out what are public schools acceptance rate because I only got excepted on Public schools . I’m planning on med school . I have to go through grueling process of numbers assays tests etc . Where do I fall in terms of numbers . It would let me know where do I stand in competition among normal people ( Ivy’s are out of this galaxy) . It would help me to reassess my priorities. Follow my heart building schools , helping others or follow my brain ( more premed stuff ). Do I need to work harder or smarter in order to avoid fiasco (second time ) after 4 years…
I’m curious why you think public acceptance rate should matter. If you want to go to med school, go to the school that best prepares you for that, assuming that you do very well in the classroom. The public acceptance rate really shouldn’t matter. Where were you accepted, maybe we can help you with your options. Don’t choose the school with the lowest acceptance rate. That will have absolutely 0 impact on your med school application.
Conversely, you could open Google, type in {Name of State University} acceptance rate and it pops it right up.
UCLA Umich . Why it matters??? My recent experience thought me u need to stand out in order to get to top tier schools . So if I fall in the middle I would need to stand out more if I’m top 20% of accepted students I can follow my heart more my estimate is UCLA 20%out of state and umich 30% instate
UCLA and Michigan are excellent schools.
100,000 students applied to UCLA. It’s ranked as USNWR as the #1 public university in the country. It’s warm. It’s a beautiful campus.
UMichigan is a peer. Equally fantastic. Perhaps even moreso in many specific majors. It’s football it’s Ann Arbor. It’s the quintessential ug flagship university experience. It’s Wall Street is you want. Med school if you can. Whatever. It’s Michigan and home run admssion.
Best of luck and congratulations on your hard work paying off. You are in a most envious position with those two choices.
I was looking for a list of public by acceptance rate