Lowest Acceptance Rates USNews 2008

College Search & Selection
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<p>(uses 06' data) (Music schools have been removed)</p>

<p>Yale University (CT) 9%
Harvard University (MA) 9%
Cooper Union (NY) 10%
Princeton University (NJ) 10%
Stanford University (CA) 11%
Columbia University (NY) 12%
College of the Ozarks (MO) 12% (??????)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 13%
Brown University (RI) 14%
United States Naval Academy (MD)* 14%
United States Military Academy (NY)* 15%
Dartmouth College (NH) 16%
California Institute of Technology 17%
Pomona College (CA) 18%
University of Pennsylvania 18%</p>

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<p>Most of these have changed by now. Columbia was just a little under 9%, I think, Stanford's at 10%, etc.</p>

<p>Dunno why College of the Ozarks is so selective. It's a religious college -- perhaps that has something to do with it, despite it having rather mediocre stats.</p>

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<p>Columbia was 10.4% this year.</p>

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<p>Don't forget </p>

<p>Brown's PLME = 5%
Penn's Wharton = 8.3%</p>

<p>and Deep Springs College has got to have some crazy low number also
Edit: website says Deep Springs varies from 6-15% a year</p>

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<p>Deep Springs is by far the most selective institution in the US (unless there's another?). It's pretty much under 10% now since it's getting more well known (while still being fairly unknown), but it's not a four-year.</p>

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<p>
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Penn's Wharton = 8.3%

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whothebelltolls, where did you get that stat?</p>

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<p>^He probably made it up.</p>

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<p>Agreed. Wharton's acceptance rate is not low in comparison to the ones posted.</p>

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<p>Business week profile:
"4996 freshmen (admitted and denied) sought full-time admission to the business program for the 2006-2007 academic year. 13% of these applicants were admitted to the program and 77% of admitted students enrolled."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/07/undergrad/profiles/wharton1.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/07/undergrad/profiles/wharton1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Daily Pennsylvanian 2/12/07
"Applicant totals for each undergraduate school were up across the board...Wharton applicants rose 13 percent." [over 2006 cycle]</p>

<p><a href="http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/02/12/News/Applications.Increase.10.Percent-2712655.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/02/12/News/Applications.Increase.10.Percent-2712655.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Daily Pennsylvanian 4/2/07</p>

<p>"The number of students admitted decreased modestly from last year for the College of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Wharton, with the three schools accepting 2,257, 762 and 471 students, respectively."</p>

<p><a href="http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/04/02/News/Admission.Rate.Drops.To.Record.Low.15.9-2816943.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/04/02/News/Admission.Rate.Drops.To.Record.Low.15.9-2816943.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>4996 x 1.13 = 5645 applied in 2007, 471 were admitted = 8.3% admit rate</p>

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<p>Doesn't the business week profile contradict what you claim?</p>

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<p>The business week profile was from last year's admission cycle (2006). This year there were 13% more applicants, meaning 5,645 applied this year. Of those, 471 were offered a spot.</p>

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<p>Thank you for clarifying.</p>

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<p>Several accepted Wharton students did report in the Penn forum that they were told by Wharton officials during the on-campus "rush" sessions in April that Wharton's acceptance rate was about 9% this year. So it must have been somewhere in that range.</p>

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<p>Excuse my statistical ignorance but given the fact Brown has a larger class to fill than Columbia does that not make it's acceptance rate possibly as selective if not more selective than Columbia? If Columbia had to fill a larger class, then it's acceptance rate would be higher? Is that the correct way to compare apples to apples?</p>

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<p>Harvard has a larger class size than Columbia. Does that make it less selective?</p>

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<p>its a bogus stat....some schools, like Dartmouth have HUGE acceptance rates for ED/EA kids......a margin of 20% higher than RD applicants. </p>

<p>Their so called selectivity depends on when you apply.</p>

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<p>Almost every school with an ED program has a higher acceptance rate under that program.</p>

<p>If they accept 30% of the kids, they still reject 70%.</p>

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<p>Berea College in Kentucky has an insanely low acceptance rate because it restricts its students to low income kids who pay ZERO tuition and in exchange must work on campus.</p>

<p>Warren Wilson College in NC is also the same.</p>

<p>Like College of the Ozarks. Same deal.</p>

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<p>SES....agreed.....30 percent is still 30 percent.....</p>

<p>I am just saying that selectivity is a minds game for the most part. Charade.</p>

<p>St. Louis University has the number one nutritional science program in the country. Its absolutely superb. But its ranked like 80th in National Schools.</p>

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<p>St. Louis's ranking is for the overall university. Not for its Nutrition program.</p>

<p>And few top undergrad schools even offer nutrition. Although I know Columbia has a grad program.</p>