<p>Which undergraduate college is the hardest to gain admission too?</p>
<p>I think it's the Smeal Business school. They have something like a 7% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>oh come on, 7%? thats a lil exaggerated</p>
<p>Hardest = Smeal
Easiest = Undecided (DUS)</p>
<p>7% is just about right.</p>
<p>Can someone provide a source for Smeal acceptance rates?</p>
<p>I find that hard to believe, as 18% of all PSU students are business/marketing majors, according to The College Board. Perhaps I'm not understanding something.</p>
<p>55% for 2006. May be a bit more selective now...
The</a> Pennsylvania State University Undergrad Profile</p>
<p>ty for clearing that up toneranger</p>
<p>Perhaps the lower acceptance rates are for Sapphire?</p>
<p>What is the overall acceptance rate for UP? I read that it is 55% somewhere. I question the 55% acceptance rate for Smeal, if the overall rate is 55%.</p>
<p>agreed kiddo, i thought the 7% acceptance rate sounded better than the 55%?</p>
<p>There are too many 55%'s in the report that TR posted. My son is a freshman at Smeal. At a meeting at the beginning of the school year for all Smeal freshmen, they were told that the admittance rate for 2007 was 8%. He rattled off the exact numbers (how many applicants and how many accepted) but I don't remember them.</p>
<p>I find that very hard to believe. Even Harvard accepts 9% of their applicants. I would be surprised if PSU was more selective.</p>
<p>Having a lower acceptance rate is not necessarily related to selectivity. Smeal can have a lot more applicants than Harvard with a fixed number of seats available.</p>
<p>yeah, im pretty sure that smeal only accepts about 7-8% of their applicants. keep in mind thats not overall penn state acceptance, just smeal.</p>
<p>also, does it even matter what the acceptance rate is? smeal is the hardest. end of story.</p>