Acceptance Rates at Top Universities
The year of the dragon and millennial babies proved to be an extremely competitive year for applicants, with most top U.S. universities recording historic low acceptance rates. Below is a snapshot of acceptance rates at some of the more popular top universities compared to 6 years ago.
| Ranking^ | University | Class of 2022# | Class of 2016* |
| 1 | Princeton | 5.5% | 9% |
| 2 | Harvard | 4.6% | 7% |
| 3 | Yale | 6.3% | 8% |
| 5 | Columbia | 5.5% | 10% |
| 5 | Stanford | 4.3% | 7% |
| 7 | MIT | 6.7% | 10% |
| 8 | Duke | 8.0% | 16% |
| 8 | Penn | 8.4% | 14% |
| 11 | Dartmouth | 8.7% | 12% |
| 12 | Northwestern | 8.4% | 23% |
| 14 | Brown | 7.2% | 9% |
| 15 | Cornell | 10.3% | 18% |
| 20 | UC Berkeley | 17.2% (2021)^ | 22% |
| 23 | USC | 13.0% | 24% |
| 24 | UCLA | 16.1% (2021)^ | 23% |
| 27 | Tufts | 19.0% | 24% |
| 31 | Boston College | 29.0% | 31% |
| 36 | NYU | 19.0% | 38% |
| 39 | Boston U | 22.0% | 58% |
| 39 | Northeastern | 19.0% | 38% |
| ^US News & World Report ‘s Best Colleges 2017 *US News & World Report ‘s Best Colleges 2012 #University websites |
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