Good info. Here’s some more, copied and pasted from another thread somewhere here. Amazingly high numbers, esp. to those of us old enough to feel like 1990 wasn’t all that long ago.
In the 1990 US News’ America’s best colleges (selected samples):
Ranked Acceptance Rate
1 Harvard 18%
2 Stanford 18%
6 MIT 30%
11 Univ. of Chicago 45%
13 Univ. of Penn 41%
13 UC Berkeley 37%
15 John Hopkins 48%
17 UCLA 43%
21 Univ. of Mich. 60%
22 Carnegie Mellon 64%
23 Northwestern 47%,
24 Washington Univ. 54%
In the next quartile (#26 to 50, no ranked order, selected sample):
Emory 55% acceptance rate
NYU 52% acceptance rate
UC San Diego 55% acceptance rate
UC Davis 69%
Univ. of Notre Dame 34%
USC 74%
Univ. of Washington 65%
Univ. of Wisconsin 72%
Vanderbilt University 58%