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College acceptance rates & admissions data

Official acceptance rates, SAT midpoints, and costs for 59 colleges — every figure sourced from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, with an honest way to estimate your own odds.

Facts from official sources · Odds are directional estimates, not guarantees.

Pick a school for its acceptance rate, SAT/GPA profile, and cost — or read how acceptance rates actually work first. Every number here comes from official federal data and links back to its source; we never publish a figure we can't source. See also our data study on these 59 colleges.

CollegeAcceptance rateSAT midpointCost / yr
Amherst College9%~1535$87,640
Arizona State University89.9%~1230$30,111
Boston College16.4%~1490$89,493
Boston University11.1%~1475$86,285
Bowdoin College7.1%~1510$85,100
Brown University5.4%~1545$87,648
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo31.3%~1340$32,265
California Institute of Technology2.6%~1545$86,886
Carnegie Mellon University11.7%~1535$83,654
Claremont McKenna College9.6%~1515$86,500
Columbia University4%~1545$89,472
Cornell University8.8%~1535$88,140
Dartmouth College5.4%~1535$87,793
Duke University5.7%~1535$87,072
Emory University10.7%~1510$83,622
Georgetown University12.9%~1470$88,741
Georgia Institute of Technology14.1%~1455$28,167
Harvard University3.7%~1545$85,540
Indiana University Bloomington78.2%~1285$28,801
Johns Hopkins University6.4%~1545$85,947
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4.6%~1550$82,730
New York University9.2%~1520$84,374
Northeastern University5.2%~1490$84,641
Northwestern University7.7%~1540$91,250
Ohio State University60.6%~1395$30,305
Pennsylvania State University60.6%~1330$39,694
Pomona College7.1%~1525$85,300
Princeton University4.6%~1545$84,040
Purdue University49.9%~1340$24,591
Rice University8%~1540$79,788
Stanford University3.6%~1545$87,833
Swarthmore College7.5%~1525$84,103
Texas A&M University57.4%~1275$32,696
Tufts University11.5%~1515$88,300
University of California, Berkeley11%~1430$45,619
University of California, Davis41.8%~1310$41,238
University of California, Irvine28.6%~1340$38,632
University of California, Los Angeles9%~1430$38,614
University of California, San Diego26.7%~1370$38,701
University of California, Santa Barbara33%~1360$41,573
University of Chicago4.5%~1545$90,360
University of Florida24.2%~1400$22,523
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign42.4%~1415$33,642
University of Maryland, College Park44.8%~1465$29,299
University of Michigan15.6%~1445$34,654
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill15.3%~1460$26,055
University of Notre Dame11.3%~1508$83,271
University of Pennsylvania5.4%~1540$89,028
University of Southern California9.8%~1500$90,300
University of Texas at Austin26.6%~1380$31,247
University of Virginia16.8%~1475$39,926
University of Washington39.2%~1270$32,446
University of Wisconsin-Madison45.2%~1450$28,679
Vanderbilt University5.9%~1535$89,590
Wake Forest University21.7%~1465$87,499
Washington University in St. Louis12.1%~1535$88,488
Wellesley College14.1%~1510$86,290
Williams College8.3%~1530$84,860
Yale University3.9%~1520$88,300

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