The 25 Most Selective Colleges in the US, 2018-2019

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• 1. Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA): 4% acceptance rate
• 2. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 5% acceptance rate
• 3. Stanford University (Stanford, CA): 5% acceptance rate
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• 4. Columbia University (New York, NY): 6% acceptance rate
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• 5. Juilliard School (New York, NY): 6% acceptance rate
• 6. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): 6% acceptance rate
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• 7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA): 7% acceptance rate
• 8. Yale University (New Haven, CT): 7% acceptance rate
• 9. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA): 8% acceptance rate
• 10. Pomona College (Claremont, CA): 8% acceptance rate
• 11. United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD): 8% acceptance rate
• 12. Brown University (Providence, RI): 9% acceptance rate
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• 13. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 9% acceptance rate
• 14. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): 9% acceptance rate
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• 15. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 9% acceptance rate
• 16. Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA): 10% acceptance rate
• 17. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH): 10% acceptance rate
• 18. Duke University (Durham, NC): 10% acceptance rate
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• 19. United States Military Academy (West Point, NY): 10% acceptance rate
• 20. Jarvis Christian College (Hawkins, TX): 11% acceptance rate
• 21. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA): 11% acceptance rate
• 22. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN): 11% acceptance rate
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• 23. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): 12% acceptance rate
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• 24. United States Air Force Academy (USAF Academy, CO): 12% acceptance rate
• 25. Amherst College (Amherst, MA): 13% acceptance rate