College Selectivity

MOST SELECTIVE colleges accept fewer than 15% of all applicants AND possess an average composite ACT (25%tile) score of at least 30 or an average combined SAT (25%tile) score of at least 1370. They include:

Colleges A	Colleges B	Colleges C	Colleges D
Amherst College	Barnard College	Bowdoin College	Brown University
California Institute of Technology	Carnegie Mellon University	Claremont McKenna College	Colby College
Columbia University	Cornell University	Dartmouth College	Duke University
Emory University	Georgetown University	Grinnell College	Hamilton College
Harvard University	Harvey Mudd College	Johns Hopkins University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College	New York University	Northwestern University	Pomona College
Princeton University	Rice University	Stanford University	Swarthmore College
Tufts University	Tulane University	University of Chicago	University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California	Vanderbilt University	Washington University in St. Louis	Williams College
Yale University

EXTREMELY SELECTIVE colleges accept fewer than 35% of all applicants AND possess an average composite ACT (25%tile) score of at least 29 OR an average combined SAT (25%tile) score of at least 1340. They include:

Row A	Row B	Row C	Row D
Boston College	Boston University	Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo	Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University	Colgate University	Colorado College	Cooper Union
Davidson College	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Georgia Institute of Technology	Haverford College
Hillsdale College	Macalester College	Northeastern University	Oberlin College
Pitzer College	Scripps College	Skidmore College	Trinity University
United States Air Force Academy	University of California, Berkeley	University of California, Irvine	University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego	University of California, Santa Barbara	University of Florida	University of Miami
University of Michigan	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of Notre Dame	University of Richmond
University of Virginia	Vassar College	Villanova University	Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University	Wellesley College	Wesleyan University

VERY SELECTIVE colleges accept fewer than 50% of all applicants AND possess an average composite ACT (25%tile) score of at least 27 or an average combined SAT (25%tile) score of at least 1280. They include:

Row A	Row B	Row C	Row D
Babson College	Bates College	Binghamton University	Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College	Bucknell University	College of the Holy Cross	College of William and Mary
Connecticut College	Denison University	Dickinson College	Emerson College
Florida State University	Franklin and Marshall College	George Washington University	Kenyon College
Lafayette College	Lehigh University	Loyola Marymount University	North Carolina State University
Occidental College	Reed College	Rhode Island School of Design	Smith College
St. Olaf College	Stony Brook University	University of Texas at Austin	Trinity College
Union College	United States Military Academy	United States Naval Academy	University of California, Davis
University of Georgia	University of Maryland	University of Rochester	University of Washington

MODERATELY SELECTIVE colleges accept fewer than 60% of all applicants AND possess an average composite ACT (25%tile) score of at least 25 or an average combined SAT (25%tile) score of at least 1210. They include:

Row A	Row B	Row C	Row D
Agnes Scott College	Allegheny College	American University	Auburn University
Bard College	Baylor University	Beloit College	Bennington College
Bentley University	Brigham Young University	Bryant University	Catholic University
Butler University	Centre College	Champlain College	Chapman University
Clark University	Clarkson University	Clemson University	College of Charleston
Colorado School of the Mines	Colorado State University	Cornell College	Creighton University
CUNY Baruch College	CUNY Hunter College	DePaul University	DePauw University
Drake University	Drew University	Drexel University	Duquesne University
Earlham College	Eckerd College	Elizabethtown College	Elon University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Emmanuel College	Fairfield University	Florida Institute of Technology
Florida Southern College	Fordham University	Furman University	George Mason University
Gettysburg College	Gonzaga University	Goucher College	Grove City College
Gustavus Adolphus College	Hampshire College	Hanover College	Hendrix College
Hobart William Smith Colleges	Hofstra University	Hope College	Howard University
Illinois Institute of Technology	Illinois Wesleyan University	Indiana University	Ithaca College
James Madison University	Juniata College	Kalamazoo College	Kettering University
Knox College	Lake Forest College	Lawrence University	Le Moyne College
Lewis & Clark College	Louisiana State University	Loyola University Chicago	Loyola University Maryland
Maine Maritime Academy	Marist College	Marquette University	Mercer University
Miami University (OH)	Michigan Technological University	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Missouri University of Science and Technology
Mount Holyoke College	Muhlenberg College	New College of Florida	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ohio State University	Ohio Wesleyan University	Penn State University	Pepperdine University
Providence College	Purdue University	Quinnipiac University	Ramapo College of New Jersey
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Rhodes College	Rochester Institute of Technology	Rollins College
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Rutgers University	Saint Anselm College	Saint Louis University
Saint Michael’s College	San Diego State University	Santa Clara University	Sarah Lawrence College
Seattle University	Siena College	Simmons University	Soka University
Southern Methodist University	Southwestern University	St. Lawrence University	St. John’s College
St. Mary’s College (MD)	SUNY New Paltz	Stevens Institute of Technology	SUNY Purchase
SUNY Geneseo	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Syracuse University	Temple University
Texas A&M University	Texas Christian University	Texas Tech University	The College of New Jersey
The University of Tennessee	The University of Texas at Dallas	The University of the South	Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas Jefferson University	Truman State University	United States Coast Guard Academy	United States Merchant Marine Academy
University at Buffalo	University of Alabama at Birmingham	University of California, Merced	University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Cruz	University of Central Florida	University of Cincinnati	University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut	University of Dallas	University of Delaware	University of Denver
University of Houston	University of Illinois at Chicago	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland-Baltimore County	University of Massachusetts Amherst	University of Massachusetts Lowell	University of Minnesota
University of Missouri	University of New Hampshire	University of North Carolina Wilmington	University of Oklahoma
University of Oregon	University of Pittsburgh	University of Portland	University of Puget Sound
University of Rhode Island	University of San Diego	University of San Francisco	University of Scranton
University of South Carolina	University of South Florida	University of St. Thomas	University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Ursinus College	Virginia Tech	Wabash College
Washington College	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Westmont College	Wheaton College (IL)
Wheaton College (MA)	Whitman College	Willamette University	Wofford College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Yeshiva University

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