College Admissions Guides
Free, detailed admissions guides for 36 schools — acceptance rates, deadlines, required supplements, essay tips, and what admissions officers look for at each one.
Ivy League
Harvard University
3.4% acceptance · Cambridge, MA
Yale University
4.4% acceptance · New Haven, CT
Princeton University
4.4% acceptance · Princeton, NJ
Columbia University
3.9% acceptance · New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania
5.8% acceptance · Philadelphia, PA
Brown University
5.1% acceptance · Providence, RI
Dartmouth College
6.2% acceptance · Hanover, NH
Cornell University
7.9% acceptance · Ithaca, NY
Top Private Universities
Stanford University
3.7% acceptance · Stanford, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3.9% acceptance · Cambridge, MA
Duke University
5.9% acceptance · Durham, NC
Northwestern University
7.0% acceptance · Evanston, IL
University of Chicago
5.4% acceptance · Chicago, IL
California Institute of Technology
2.7% acceptance · Pasadena, CA
Johns Hopkins University
6.5% acceptance · Baltimore, MD
Rice University
7.7% acceptance · Houston, TX
Vanderbilt University
5.6% acceptance · Nashville, TN
University of Notre Dame
12.0% acceptance · South Bend, IN
Georgetown University
11.5% acceptance · Washington, DC
University of Southern California
9.9% acceptance · Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Mellon University
11.0% acceptance · Pittsburgh, PA
Emory University
11.5% acceptance · Atlanta, GA
New York University
7.7% acceptance · New York, NY
Boston University
12.8% acceptance · Boston, MA
Tufts University
10.5% acceptance · Medford, MA
Washington University in St. Louis
12% acceptance · St. Louis, MO
Public Universities
UC Berkeley
11.6% acceptance · Berkeley, CA
UCLA
8.8% acceptance · Los Angeles, CA
University of Michigan
17.7% acceptance · Ann Arbor, MI
University of Virginia
18.7% acceptance · Charlottesville, VA
UNC Chapel Hill
17.2% acceptance · Chapel Hill, NC
UC San Diego
27.2% acceptance · La Jolla, CA
UC Davis
45.8% acceptance · Davis, CA
UC Irvine
30.3% acceptance · Irvine, CA
Georgia Institute of Technology
9-28% acceptance · Atlanta, GA
University of Texas at Austin
22% acceptance · Austin, TX