2022 Admission Stats (Lowest Admit Rate Colleges and Most Applied to Colleges)

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In another thread, I looked up various admission stats for 2022, which the most recent IPEDS year. Some of the results I found interesting were below. I am only including 4 year colleges that offer bachelor degrees, are not online, and admitted at least 10 students in 2022.

Lowest Admit Rate Colleges

  1. Caltech – 2.69% (16k applicants)
  2. Harvard – 3.24% (61k applicants)
  3. Stanford – 3.68% (56k applicants)
  4. Columbia – 3.95% (61k applicants)
  5. MIT – 3.96% (34k applicants)
  6. Yale – 4.57% (50k applicants)
  7. Brown – 5.06% (51k applicants)
  8. Chicago – 5.43% (38k applicants)
  9. Princeton – 5.70% (38k applicants)
  10. Duke – 6.35% (50k applicants)

Most Applied to Colleges

  1. UCLA – 150k applicants
  2. UCSD – 131k applicants
  3. UCB – 128k applicants
  4. UCI – 119k applicants
  5. UCSB – 111k applicants
  6. NYU – 100k applicants
  7. UCD – 95k applicants
  8. Northeastern – 91k applicants
  9. Penn State – 86k applicants
  10. Michigan – 84k applicants

Highest Yield Familiar Colleges (skipping small religious and online colleges, which dominate the highest reported yield)

  1. Navy – 85.2%*
  2. MIT – 85.0%
  3. Chicago – 84.8%
  4. Stanford – 83.7%
  5. Harvard – 83.0%
  6. Curtis – 82.5%
  7. BYU – 79.0%
  8. West Point – 78.1%
  9. Air Force – 77.9%
  10. Ozarks – 75.6%
    *Non-standard reporting method
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Wow I had no idea so many kids were applying to the UCs.

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California has a very large population, and checking multiple campuses on the UC application is minimal additional application work.

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Some applicants also do not seem to have any idea how many other kids are applying to these schools either… many kids seem to think that UCI, UCSB, UCD (all in the top-10 most applied!) are “safety schools.”

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