College Admissions Guides
Free, detailed admissions guides for 36 schools — acceptance rates, deadlines, required supplements, essay tips, and how each school evaluates applicants.
Ivy League
Harvard University
3.6% acceptance · Cambridge, MA
Yale University
3.9% acceptance · New Haven, CT
Princeton University
4.6% acceptance · Princeton, NJ
Columbia University
4.0% acceptance · New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania
5.4% acceptance · Philadelphia, PA
Brown University
5.4% acceptance · Providence, RI
Dartmouth College
5.4% acceptance · Hanover, NH
Cornell University
8.8% acceptance · Ithaca, NY
Top Private Universities
Stanford University
3.6% acceptance · Stanford, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4.5% acceptance · Cambridge, MA
Duke University
5.7% acceptance · Durham, NC
Northwestern University
7.7% acceptance · Evanston, IL
University of Chicago
4.5% acceptance · Chicago, IL
California Institute of Technology
2.6% acceptance · Pasadena, CA
Johns Hopkins University
6.4% acceptance · Baltimore, MD
Rice University
8.0% acceptance · Houston, TX
Vanderbilt University
5.9% acceptance · Nashville, TN
University of Notre Dame
11.3% acceptance · South Bend, IN
Georgetown University
12.9% acceptance · Washington, DC
University of Southern California
9.8% acceptance · Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Mellon University
11.7% acceptance · Pittsburgh, PA
Emory University
10.7% acceptance · Atlanta, GA
New York University
9.2% acceptance · New York, NY
Boston University
11.1% acceptance · Boston, MA
Tufts University
11.5% acceptance · Medford, MA
Washington University in St. Louis
12.1% acceptance · St. Louis, MO
Public Universities
UC Berkeley
11.0% acceptance · Berkeley, CA
UCLA
9.0% acceptance · Los Angeles, CA
University of Michigan
15.6% acceptance · Ann Arbor, MI
University of Virginia
16.8% acceptance · Charlottesville, VA
UNC Chapel Hill
15.3% acceptance · Chapel Hill, NC
UC San Diego
26.7% acceptance · La Jolla, CA
UC Davis
41.8% acceptance · Davis, CA
UC Irvine
28.6% acceptance · Irvine, CA
Georgia Institute of Technology
14.1% acceptance · Atlanta, GA
University of Texas at Austin
26.6% acceptance · Austin, TX