The 25 Most Selective Colleges in the US, 2015-2016

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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