What's a tougher school to get into: Northwestern or USC?

College Search & Selection
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<p>this year’s acceptance statistics taken from this thread</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/481806-regular-decision-competitive-schools-2012-statistics-showing-up-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/481806-regular-decision-competitive-schools-2012-statistics-showing-up-7.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Others:</p>

<p>Stanford: 9%
MIT: 11.6%
Swarthmore: 15%
Georgetown: 18%
Bowdoin: 18%
Duke: 18.8%
USC: 21%
JHU: 22%
Vanderbilt: 23%
Vassar: 24%
Emory: 25%
Northwestern:25%
Tufts: 25%
Chicago: 28%
Barnard: 28%
Amherst 14.2
Swarthmore 15.0
Williams 16.3
Middlebury 18.3
Bowdoin 18.4
Pomona 15%</p>