The hardest college to get into in every state
With an acceptance rate of just 8.8% and typical SAT scores between 1500 and 1600, the California Institute of Technology is America’s hardest college to get into, according to a list from academic review site Niche.com.
The rankings are based on acceptance rates and SAT and ACT scores reported to the US Department of Education. College acceptance rates received a weighted average of 60% in the ranking computation, and SAT/ACT scores received a weighted average of 40%.
Business Insider used Niche’s state filter to find out which college is the hardest to get into in each of America’s 50 states and the District of Columbia. Niche reports that a few states (Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, and Wyoming) are missing from the ranking because they don’t have data for enough colleges.
Scroll through to find out the most selective college in each state, along with their acceptance rate and SAT score, listed for the lower end of accepted students (25th percentile) and higher end (75th percentile). Note that Mississippi Valley State University and Union College reported ACT scores rather than SAT.
Alabama: University of Alabama
Acceptance rate: 51.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 990-1250
Arizona: Arizona Christian University
Acceptance rate: 56.7%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 840-1090
Arkansas: University of Arkansas
Acceptance rate: 62%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1010-1230
California: California Institute of Technology
Acceptance rate: 8.8%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1500-1600
Colorado: Colorado College
Acceptance rate: 17.9%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1240-1430
Connecticut: Yale University
Acceptance rate: 6.3%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1410-1600
District of Columbia (D.C.): Georgetown University
Acceptance rate: 17.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1320-1520
Florida: University of Miami
Acceptance rate: 38.2%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1220-1420
Georgia: Emory University
Acceptance rate: 26.8%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1280-1460
Hawaii: Brigham Young University at Hawaii
Acceptance rate: 34.9%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 970-1170
Idaho: Northwest Nazarene University
Acceptance rate: 65.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 900-1180
Illinois: University of Chicago
Acceptance rate: 8.8%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1435-1600
Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Acceptance rate: 21.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1340-1520
Iowa: Grinnell College
Acceptance rate: 28.0%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1290-1500
Kansas: Sterling College-Kansas
Acceptance rate: 44.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 820-1040
Kentucky: Berea College
Acceptance rate: 33.7%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1020-1226
Louisiana: Tulane University
Acceptance rate: 28%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1230-1410
Maine: Bowdoin College
Acceptance rate: 14.9%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1340-1520
Maryland: Johns Hopkins University
Acceptance rate: 16.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1360-1510
Massachusetts: Harvard University
Acceptance rate: 6%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1410-1600
Michigan: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Acceptance rate: 32.2%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1280-1480
Minnesota: Carleton College
Acceptance rate: 22.8%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1320-1510
Mississippi: Mississippi Valley State University
Acceptance rate: 16.3%
ACT 25th-75th percentile: 15-19
Missouri: Washington University in St. Louis
Acceptance rate: 17.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1420-1570
Montana: Carroll College
Acceptance rate: 57.5%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 990-1250
Nebraska: Union College
Acceptance rate: 52.1%
ACT 25th-75th percentile: 19-25
New Hampshire: Dartmouth College
Acceptance rate: 11.5%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1360-1550
New Jersey: Princeton University
Acceptance rate: 7.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1400-1600
New Mexico: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Acceptance rate: 36.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1120-1310
New York: Columbia University
Acceptance rate: 7%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1390-1570
North Carolina: Duke University
Acceptance rate: 11.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1370-1550
North Dakota: University of Jamestown
Acceptance rate: 64.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1066-1227
Ohio: Kenyon College
Acceptance rate: 25.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1230-1420
Oklahoma: University of Tulsa
Acceptance rate: 40.3%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1130-1410
Oregon: Reed College
Acceptance rate: 38.7%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1290-1480
Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania
Acceptance rate: 10.4%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1360-1550
Rhode Island: Brown University
Acceptance rate: 8.7%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1330-1550
South Carolina: Clemson University
Acceptance rate: 51.5%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1150-1340
South Dakota: Augustana College
Acceptance rate: 61.3%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1010-1230
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University
Acceptance rate: 13.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1430-1580
Texas: Rice University
Acceptance rate: 15.1%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1390-1550
Utah: Brigham Young University
Acceptance rate: 47%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1150-1370
Vermont: Middlebury College
Acceptance rate: 17.2%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1260-1470
Virginia: Washington & Lee University
Acceptance rate: 19.5%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1320-1460
Washington: Whitman College
Acceptance rate: 41%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1200-1430
West Virginia: Concord University
Acceptance rate: 37.8%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 860-1060
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin
Acceptance rate: 56.9%
SAT 25th-75th percentile: 1180-1400
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