However, if the comparison is elite private universities, the latter do not do so well. Filtering by admission rate <= 30% in the USNWR social mobility ranking:
| USNWR social mobility rank | Public | Private |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | UCI | |
| 15 | UCSB | |
| 46 | UCLA | |
| 75 | University of Florida | |
| 105 | UCB | |
| 140 | NYU | |
| 160 | UNC-CH | |
| 186 | University of Texas at Austin | Princeton |
| 197 | Columbia | |
| 209 | Emory | |
| 209 | USC | |
| 242 | MIT | |
| 250 | Harvard | |
| 263 | Brown | |
| 270 | Cornell | |
| 270 | Yale | |
| 282 | CWRU | |
| 282 | Stanford | |
| 296 | Northeastern | |
| 303 | Boston University | |
| 303 | Northwestern | |
| 303 | Rice | |
| 313 | Caltech | |
| 313 | Dartmouth | |
| 313 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 326 | JHU | |
| 326 | Michigan | |
| 326 | Vanderbilt | |
| 339 | Duke | |
| 339 | Georgetown | |
| 339 | Tufts | |
| 353 | University of Miami | |
| 361 | Boston College | |
| 361 | CMU | |
| 361 | Virginia | |
| 361 | Villanova | |
| 372 | Georgia Tech | |
| 372 | Chicago | |
| 395 | Notre Dame | |
| 395 | WUStL | |
| 412 | Wake Forest | |
| 432 | Tulane |