Selective Colleges That People Really Want To Go To

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Selective Colleges That People Really Want To Go To

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Rank College Enrollment Yield Acceptance Rate Graduation Rate # Students
1 College of the Ozarks 94.8% 14.2% 63.0% 1,499
2 United States Military Academy 87.9% 9.7% 82.0% 4,389
3 Robert Morris University Illinois 86.6% 23.1% 79.0% 2,253
4 Stanford University 82.1% 4.8% 95.0% 7,034
5 Harvard University 78.8% 5.4% 98.0% 7,151
6 United States Air Force Academy 74.7% 15.1% 84.0% 4,237
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 73.5% 7.9% 91.0% 4,476
8 United States Merchant Marine Academy 73.4% 20.3% 72.0% 904
9 Yale University 68.8% 6.3% 96.0% 5,469
10 Princeton University 68.3% 6.5% 97.0% 5,251
11 University of Pennsylvania 67.8% 9.4% 96.0% 10,468
12 University of Chicago 63.7% 7.9% 93.0% 5,967
13 Columbia University in the City of New York 61.6% 6.8% 95.0% 7,552
14 University of Notre Dame 56.0% 18.7% 96.0% 8,514
15 Brown University 55.8% 9.3% 96.0% 6,565
16 Pomona College 53.7% 9.4% 93.0% 1,556
17 Claremont McKenna College 53.6% 9.4% 90.0% 1,346
18 Northwestern University 53.0% 10.7% 93.0% 8,298
19 Cornell University 52.3% 14.1% 93.0% 14,556
20 Dartmouth College 51.2% 10.6% 95.0% 4,270
21 Duke University 50.2% 10.8% 95.0% 6,577
22 Barnard College 50.0% 16.7% 89.0% 2,461
23 Bowdoin College 49.9% 14.8% 93.0% 1,801
24 Pitzer College 47.1% 13.7% 84.0% 1,029
25 Georgetown University 46.7% 16.8% 95.0% 7,056
26 Tufts University 46.2% 14.3% 92.0% 5,435
27 Vanderbilt University 45.9% 10.7% 93.0% 6,817
28 Davidson College 45.5% 20.1% 93.0% 1,796
29 Williams College 45.0% 17.6% 95.0% 2,058
30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 44.9% 26.9% 90.0% 17,869
31 University of California-Berkeley 43.9% 16.9% 91.0% 28,108
32 Middlebury College 42.6% 16.1% 94.0% 2,506
33 Wellesley College 42.5% 28.6% 91.0% 2,347
33 California Institute of Technology 42.5% 8.1% 92.0% 979
35 Colorado College 42.2% 16.0% 86.0% 2,084
36 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 42.1% 28.6% 91.0% 27,969
37 Swarthmore College 42.0% 12.8% 94.0% 1,542
38 Amherst College 41.0% 13.7% 94.0% 1,849
39 Harvey Mudd College 40.1% 12.9% 90.0% 829
39 Haverford College 40.1% 21.4% 94.0% 1,268
41 Bates College 39.9% 22.6% 88.0% 1,780
42 Washington and Lee University 38.7% 23.6% 88.0% 1,824
42 Carleton College 38.7% 22.6% 93.0% 2,087
44 California Institute of the Arts 38.6% 23.6% 63.0% 943
45 Johns Hopkins University 38.2% 12.8% 93.0% 5,621
46 University of Virginia-Main Campus 38.1% 29.9% 94.0% 15,476
47 University of California-Los Angeles 37.4% 18.0% 91.0% 30,343
48 Washington University in St Louis 36.6% 16.5% 95.0% 6,915
49 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 36.5% 25.8% 82.0% 13,815
50 Wesleyan University 36.4% 17.8% 93.0% 2,918
51 Lehigh University 35.7% 26.1% 87.0% 5,003
52 Rice University 35.2% 15.3% 91.0% 3,836
53 Hamilton College 34.6% 26.1% 91.0% 1,868
54 University of Southern California 34.0% 16.6% 91.0% 18,195
55 Carnegie Mellon University 33.7% 21.7% 88.0% 6,069
56 Vassar College 33.5% 26.9% 92.0% 2,405
56 American University 33.5% 25.9% 82.0% 7,544
58 Oberlin College 31.9% 28.0% 88.0% 2,869
59 Colgate University 31.7% 28.8% 92.0% 2,864
60 Babson College 31.3% 24.6% 90.0% 2,283
61 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 30.5% 29.5% 75.0% 19,703
62 Bucknell University 30.3% 29.9% 89.0% 3,530
63 Scripps College 29.9% 29.9% 87.0% 1,030
64 American Musical and Dramatic Academy 28.9% 21.9% 66.0% 1,565
65 Kenyon College 28.6% 26.6% 89.0% 1,689
66 Lafayette College 28.2% 28.3% 90.0% 2,505
67 Grinnell College 27.8% 20.2% 89.0% 1,658
68 Colby College 27.7% 18.7% 90.0% 1,879
69 Emory University 26.9% 25.3% 91.0% 6,714
70 Skidmore College 26.7% 29.1% 87.0% 2,643
71 Tulane University of Louisiana 22.7% 25.5% 83.0% 6,487
72 Boston University 21.0% 29.4% 85.0% 16,628
73 Northeastern University 18.1% 28.9% 82.0% 13,444