These colleges have the lowest acceptance rates in the United States. They are the hardest to get into, period. And every year they get even more selective... But at least you still have a better chance of getting into Harvard than being struck by lightning. (Barely.)
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1. Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA): 4% acceptance rate
2. Stanford University (Stanford, CA): 4.69% acceptance rate
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3. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 5.90% acceptance rate
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4. Yale University (New Haven, CT): 6.8% acceptance rate
5. Alice Lloyd College (Pippa Passes, KY): 7.1% acceptance rate
6. Juilliard School (New York, NY): 7.2% acceptance rate
7. Columbia University (New York, NY): 7.4% acceptance rate
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8. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): 7.6% acceptance rate
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9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA): 7.9% acceptance rate
10. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): 7.9% acceptance rate
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11. United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD): 7.9% acceptance rate
12. College of the Ozarks (Point Lookout, MO): 8.3% acceptance rate
13. Duke University (Durham, NC): 8.7% acceptance rate
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14. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA): 8.8% acceptance rate
15. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN): 8.8% acceptance rate
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16. Pomona College (Claremont, CA): 9.1% acceptance rate
17. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH): 9.4% acceptance rate
18. United States Military Academy (West Point, NY): 9.5% acceptance rate
19. Brown University (Providence, RI): 9.6% acceptance rate
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20. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 10.7% acceptance rate
21. Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA): 10.9% acceptance rate
22. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, MA): 12% acceptance rate
23. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 12.3% acceptance rate
24. Pitzer College (Claremont, CA): 12.9% acceptance rate
25. Amherst College (Amherst, MA): 14% acceptance rate
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