College Selection
The competition for admission is on fire. There are so many schools to evaluate, applications to fill-out, tests to take, essays to write and deadlines to meet.
Ivy Academy Directors and Consultants have the experience to guide students through the college search and admissions process. Finding information about college acceptance rates, available majors, stats etc. can be so time consuming. Ivy Academy Can Help!
- Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts has a 5 percent acceptance rate. Named as the best college in America for studying a number of fields including English, biology, economics, history, political science, and math.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has an 8 percent acceptance rate. Named as one of the best colleges for computer sciences in America.
- Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has a 6 percent acceptance rate. Named as the best college with the best professors in America.
- Stanford University, in California, has a 5 percent acceptance rate. Named as one of the best colleges in America overall.
- Princeton University, In New Jersey, has a 7 percent acceptance rate. The school has a 97 percent graduation rate.
- California Institute of Technology Cal Tech, in Pasadena, California, has an 8 percent acceptance rate. The school is named as one of the best college for physics in America.
- University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has a 19 percent acceptance rate. It was named as the best college for religious studies in America.
- The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City, has a 15 percent acceptance rate. It was named as the best college for art in America.
- Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has a 17 percent acceptance rate. Rated the school an A+ for academics and an A for the party scene.
- Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has an 18 percent acceptance rate. The small liberal arts school
- Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts, has a 14 percent acceptance rate. Rated the best for A+ for academics and value.
- Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, has a 15 percent acceptance rate. Named one of the best small colleges in America.
- Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has a 14 percent acceptance rate. Student who apply there also most often apply to Williams College, Bowdoin College and Middlebury College.
- Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has a 14 percent acceptance rate. Named the best college for agricultural sciences in America.
- Washington University in St. Louis has a 17 percent acceptance rate. Named as one of the best college campus in America.
- Claremont McKenna in Claremont, California, has a 9 percent acceptance rate. The school has just 1,327 full-time undergrads.
- Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, has a 13 percent acceptance rate. The school’s graduation rate is 94 percent.
- Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has a 13 percent acceptance rate. Nursing, public health, and biomedical engineering are the most popular majors.
- Rice University in Houston, has a 15 percent acceptance rate. Named as the college with the best student life in America.
- Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has an 11 percent acceptance rate. It’s named by Niche as the best college for communications in America.
- Pomona College, in Claremont, California, has a 9 percent acceptance rate. Named as the most diverse college in America.
- Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California, has a 13 percent acceptance rate. Students who applied there also applied to California Institute of Technology, Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College.
- Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has an 11 percent acceptance rate. The school has a 97 percent graduation rate.
- Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, has 11 percent acceptance rate.
- The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, has a 9 percent acceptance rate. It’s ranked as one of the best college for business in America.
- Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, has a 9 percent acceptance rate. Professors at this Ivy League school rated an A+.
- Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, has an 11 percent acceptance rate. Named as one of the best college in America for education, taking into account academics, admissions, financial and student life data.
- Columbia University, in New York, has a 7 percent acceptance rate. Students say “challenging” is the word that best describes this school.
- The University of Chicago has an 8 percent acceptance rate. Named as one of the best college without an application fee in America.
