Julliard, Notre Dame, Albany State University, and BYU-Hawaii: What do these vastly different colleges have in common? Selectivity.
Website eCollegeFinder put together this map of the most selective colleges of each state, basing the info off the number of applications received for the class of 2017. And move the hell over, Harvard. Pennsylvania’s Curtis Institute of Music was the most selective college in the country, taking in only 5% of its applicants in 2013. YOU AND YOUR RECORDER NEVER STOOD A CHANCE.
Here’s the full breakdown, via the good folks at Business Insider:
Most Selective College By State:
Alabama — Oakwood University
- Location — Huntsville, Alabama
- Acceptance Rate — 34%
- Number of Applications Received — 2,728
- Total Undergraduates — 1,966
Alaska — Alaska Pacific University
- Location — Anchorage, Alaska
- Acceptance Rate — 37%
- Number of Applications Received — 494
- Total Undergraduates — 439
Arizona — Grand Canyon University
- Location — Phoenix, Arizona
- Acceptance Rate — 55%
- Number of Applications Received — 15,401
- Total Undergraduates — 31,158
Arkansas — University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
- Location — Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- Acceptance Rate — 28%
- Number of Applications Received — 4,094
- Total Undergraduates — 2,724
California — Stanford University
- Location — Stanford, California
- Acceptance Rate — 6%
- Number of Applications Received — 38,828
- Total Undergraduates — 7,063
Colorado — United States Air Force Academy
- Location — USAFA, Colorado
- Acceptance Rate — 15%
- Number of Applications Received — 9,634
- Total Undergraduates — 4,120
Connecticut — Yale University
- Location — New Haven, Connecticut
- Acceptance Rate — 7%
- Number of Applications Received — 28,977
- Total Undergraduates — 5,405
Delaware — Delaware State University
- Location — Dover, Delaware
- Acceptance Rate — 42%
- Number of Applications Received — 8,884
- Total Undergraduates — 3,877
Florida — Adventist University of Health Sciences
- Location — Orlando, Florida
- Acceptance Rate — 13%
- Number of Applications Received — 2,110
- Total Undergraduates — 2,576
Georgia — Albany State University
- Location — Albany, Georgia
- Acceptance Rate — 20%
- Number of Applications Received — 8,250
- Total Undergraduates — 3,803
Hawaii — Brigham Young University-Hawaii
- Location — Laie, Hawaii
- Acceptance Rate — 36%
- Number of Applications Received — 2,664
- Total Undergraduates — 3,166
Idaho — Northwest Nazarene University
- Location — Nampa, Idaho
- Acceptance Rate — 62%
- Number of Applications Received — 1,227
- Total Undergraduates — 1,477
Illinois — University of Chicago
- Location — Chicago, Illinois
- Acceptance Rate — 9%
- Number of Applications Received — 30,304
- Total Undergraduates — 5,618
Indiana — University of Notre Dame
- Location — Notre Dame, Indiana
- Acceptance Rate — 22%
- Number of Applications Received — 17,647
- Total Undergraduates — 8,475
Iowa — Grinnell College
- Location — Grinnell, Iowa
- Acceptance Rate — 35%
- Number of Applications Received — 3,979
- Total Undergraduates — 1,674
Kansas — Sterling College
- Location — Sterling, Kansas
- Acceptance Rate — 44%
- Number of Applications Received — 883
- Total Undergraduates — 653
Kentucky — Berea College
- Location — Berea, Kentucky
- Acceptance Rate — 34%
- Number of Applications Received — 1,620
- Total Undergraduates — 1,658
Louisiana — Tulane University
- Location — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Acceptance Rate — 26%
- Number of Applications Received — 30,122
- Total Undergraduates — 8,357
Maine — Bowdoin College
- Location — Brunswick, Maine
- Acceptance Rate — 15%
- Number of Applications Received — 7,052
- Total Undergraduates — 1,839
Maryland — United States Naval Academy
- Location — Annapolis, Maryland
- Acceptance Rate — 7%
- Number of Applications Received — 19,146
- Total Undergraduates — 4,536
Massachusetts — Harvard University
- Location — Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Acceptance Rate — 6%
- Number of Applications Received — 35,023
- Total Undergraduates — 10,564
Michigan — University of Michigan
- Location — Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Acceptance Rate — 33%
- Number of Applications Received — 46,813
- Total Undergraduates — 27,979
Minnesota — Carleton College
- Location — Northfield, Minnesota
- Acceptance Rate — 21%
- Number of Applications Received — 7,045
- Total Undergraduates — 2,055
Mississippi — Rust College
- Location — Holy Springs, Mississippi
- Acceptance Rate — 14%
- Number of Applications Received — 3,152
- Total Undergraduates — 934
Missouri — College of the Ozarks
- Location — Point Lookout, Missouri
- Acceptance Rate — 13%
- Number of Applications Received — 3,006
- Total Undergraduates — 1,372
Montana — Carroll College
- Location — Helena, Montana
- Acceptance Rate — 53%
- Number of Applications Received — 3,279
- Total Undergraduates — 1,463
Nebraska — York College
- Location — York, Nebraska
- Acceptance Rate — 49%
- Number of Applications Received — 546
- Total Undergraduates – 472
Nevada — University of Nevada
- Location — Reno, Nevada
- Acceptance Rate — 84%
- Number of Applications Received — 7,857
- Total Undergraduates — 15,082
New Hampshire — Dartmouth College
- Location — Hannover, New Hampshire
- Acceptance Rate — 10%
- Number of Applications Received — 23,110
- Total Undergraduates — 4,193
New Jersey — Princeton University
- Location — Princeton, New Jersey
- Acceptance Rate — 7%
- Number of Applications Received — 26,499
- Total Undergraduates — 5,327
New Mexico — New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Location — Socorro, New Mexico
- Acceptance Rate — 41%
- Number of Applications Received — 1,088
- Total Undergraduates — 1,565
New York* — The Juilliard School
- Location — New York, New York
- Acceptance Rate — 7%
- Number of Applications Received — 31,851
- Total Undergraduates — 7,814
North Carolina — Duke University
- Location — Durham, North Carolina
- Acceptance Rate — 13%
- Number of Applications Received — 30,374
- Total Undergraduates — 6,655
North Dakota — Dickinson State University
- Location — Dickinson, North Dakota
- Acceptance Rate — 49%
- Number of Applications Received — 417
- Total Undergraduates — 1,837
Ohio — Oberlin College
- Location — Oberlin, Ohio
- Acceptance Rate — 30%
- Number of Applications Received — 7,438
- Total Undergraduates — 2,930
Oklahoma — University of Tulsa
- Location — Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Acceptance Rate — 41%
- Number of Applications Received — 7,304
- Total Undergraduates — 3,160
Oregon — Corban University
- Location — Salem, Oregon
- Acceptance Rate — 32%
- Number of Applications Received — 2,896
- Total Undergraduates — 955
Pennsylvania — Curtis Institute of Music
- Location — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Acceptance Rate — 5%
- Number of Applications Received — 289
- Total Undergraduates — 125
Rhode Island — Brown University
- Location — Providence, Rhode Island
- Acceptance Rate — 9%
- Number of Applications Received — 28,919
- Total Undergraduates — 6,435
South Carolina — Lander University
- Location — Greenwood, South Carolina
- Acceptance Rate — 42%
- Number of Applications Received — 3,349
- Total Undergraduates — 2,969
South Dakota — Presentation College
- Location — Aberdeen, South Dakota
- Acceptance Rate — 66%
- Number of Applications Received — 401
- Total Undergraduates – 746
Tennessee — Vanderbilt University
- Location — Nashville, Tennessee
- Acceptance Rate — 13%
- Number of Applications Received — 38,161
- Total Undergraduates — 6,796
Texas — Rice University
- Location — Houston, Texas
- Acceptance Rate — 17%
- Number of Applications Received — 15,415
- Total Undergraduates — 3,848
Utah — Brigham Young University
- Location — Provo, Utah
- Acceptance Rate — 49%
- Number of Applications Received — 11,423
- Total Undergraduates — 31,060
Vermont — Middlebury College
- Location — Middlebury, Vermont
- Acceptance Rate — 17%
- Number of Applications Received — 8,847
- Total Undergraduates — 2,516
Virginia — Washington and Lee University
- Location — Lexington, Virginia
- Acceptance Rate — 18%
- Number of Applications Received — 6,222
- Total Undergraduates — 1,838
Washington — University of Washington
- Location — Seattle, Washington
- Acceptance Rate — 55%
- Number of Applications Received — 30,199
- Total Undergraduates — 29,475
West Virginia — Ohio Valley University
- Location — Vienna, West Virginia
- Acceptance Rate — 36%
- Number of Applications Received — 904
- Total Undergraduates — 436
Wisconsin — Mount Mary University
- Location — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Acceptance Rate — 54%
- Number of Applications Received — 478
- Total Undergraduates — 1,054
Wyoming — University of Wyoming
- Location — Laramie, Wyoming
- Acceptance Rate — 96%
- Number of Applications Received — 4,181
- Total Undergraduates — 10,194
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