U.S. Map Shows The Most Selective Colleges By State
eCollegeFinder coming in hot with another map. This one shows which colleges have the lowest acceptance rate by state, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Top 10 Most Selective States
∙ Pennsylvania – Curtis Institute of Music – 5%
∙ Massachusetts – Harvard University – 6%
∙ California – Stanford University – 6%
∙ Connecticut – Yale University – 7%
∙ Maryland – United States Naval Academy – 7%
∙ New Jersey – Princeton University – 7%
∙ New York – The Juilliard School – 7%
∙ Illinois – University of Chicago – 9%
∙ Rhode Island – Brown University – 9%
∙ New Hampshire – Dartmouth University – 10%
[via eCollegeFinder]
The most selective school in Arizona has an enrollment of over 40K and is owned by a publicly traded corporation. Good job, Arizona.
10 years ago at 2:02 pmVirginia’s is pretty damn accurate. I went to Washington and Lee for 2 years, still no fucking clue how I got in…
10 years ago at 2:06 pmShut up Matt Bass
10 years ago at 1:54 amsorry kid, who?
10 years ago at 10:13 pmCrazy shit, I live in Lexington. Were you there for the deck collapse a couple years back?
10 years ago at 9:32 pmYeah i’d hope the priests and nuns of Mt. St. Mary’s is much more selective than Wisconsin.
10 years ago at 3:01 pmThis is bullshit. Dickinson State is just above a community college and recently almost lost accreditation because they were selling degrees to foreigners who never attended.
10 years ago at 3:11 pmThat’s why none of those schools win anything besides Stanford
10 years ago at 4:13 pmPlease tell me more about how many championship rings you personally have? Oh thats what i thought, you dont play sports. So you would never win anything.
10 years ago at 7:49 amMany of these schools are not difficult to get into, but they pad their stats by encouraging terrible students to apply.
10 years ago at 4:49 pmNever seen that Virginia logo in my life.
10 years ago at 9:48 pmIt’s a tiny liberal arts in Lexington va. 80+% greek life population. Also has a great business school. It was my #1 choice in high school but I got denied haha
10 years ago at 9:54 pmW&L has a great business major, it doesn’t have a graduate business school. But yes, we’re the shit.
10 years ago at 1:52 am80% greek? That fucking blows
10 years ago at 7:44 amGCU: Because everyone wants to go to ASU or U of A.
10 years ago at 11:59 pmBullshit SC. I live like 3 miles from Lander University, there’s no way in hell it’s selective. It’s where the poor go.
10 years ago at 12:25 am“Now college men from sea to sea
10 years ago at 1:36 amMay sing of colors true,
But who has better right than we
To hoist a symbol hue?”